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Cavan · November 15, 2018

Expert found nothing of evidential value in tiger kidnap car, trial hears

A garda fingerprint expert has told Dublin Circuit Criminal Court that examination of a vehicle used in a €90,000 tiger kidnapping yielded no evidential...

Rooskey · November 15, 2018

Injunction sought preventing hotel's use as asylum seeker accomodation

Paradub Limited has brought High Court proceedings seeking to prevent the Shannon Key West Hotel at Rooskey, on the Leitrim-Roscommon border, from being used...

Cavan · November 14, 2018

Tiger kidnap jury hears evidence of crime scene preservation

A jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has heard evidence regarding garda procedures at a crime scene in a tiger kidnapping trial. Paschal Kelly, aged 52 and...

Cavan · November 13, 2018

Man appeals conviction for murdering brothel guard

A man convicted of murdering a Romanian national at a brothel in Cavan six years ago is awaiting the outcome of his appeal against conviction at the Court of...

Cavan · November 13, 2018

Extra licence plate in alleged kidnap vehicle, trial hears

A detective gave evidence on day 21 of the trial of Paschal Kelly at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, describing the discovery of an additional licence plate...

Kiltimagh · November 13, 2018

DCU student avoids jail for dealing drugs on campus

A 21-year-old sports science student from Kiltimagh, County Mayo, has avoided a custodial sentence after admitting drug dealing at Dublin City University....

French Park · November 12, 2018

Drivers must have "particular regard to vulnerability of cyclists", judge says

A bus driver from Dublin has been convicted of careless driving causing death following a collision with a cyclist on Burlington Road in November 2014. Osborn...

Donegal · November 12, 2018

Garda challenges findings of Disclosures Tribunal

A Donegal-based Garda has initiated High Court proceedings seeking to overturn findings made against him by the Disclosures Tribunal. Garda Keith Harrison...

Cavan · November 09, 2018

Pair jailed for sexually assaulting sleeping woman in private room at nightclub

At Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, two men have been sentenced for sexually assaulting a 19-year-old woman while she lay asleep in a private room at a...

Enniskillen · November 08, 2018 Also covered in Letterkenny

Hyde Park bomb accused granted bail ahead of extradition hearing on murder charges

A 66-year-old man from Donegal has been granted bail by the High Court pending an extradition hearing to face charges in Northern Ireland. The man was...

Monaghan · November 08, 2018

Convicted killer carried out armed raids after receiving suspended sentence

A man with previous convictions for manslaughter has been imprisoned after carrying out armed raids whilst serving a suspended sentence. Mark Bissett, aged...

Mayo · November 07, 2018

Rape complainant allegedly "admitted telling lies" during trial, court told

A man convicted in February of sexually assaulting and raping his daughter in County Mayo between 2006 and 2010 has brought a motion before the Court of...

Enniskillen · November 06, 2018

Hyde Park bomb accused appears before court in connection with 1972 murders

A 66-year-old man arrested in County Donegal has been brought before the High Court on a European Arrest Warrant in connection with a 1972 bombing in...

Cavan · November 05, 2018

Tiger kidnap trial hears of car crash

A witness has testified at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court in the ongoing trial of a man charged in connection with a €90,000 tiger kidnapping that occurred in...

Cavan · November 02, 2018

Man arrested on day of tiger kidnap has since died, trial hears

A man from Cootehill, County Cavan, has died by suicide since his arrest on the morning of a tiger kidnapping, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has heard....

Mayo · November 02, 2018

Lawyers for jailed father will seek to adduce new evidence that victim "recanted" rape accusation

A man convicted in February of multiple counts of rape and sexual assault against his daughter has opened an appeal against his conviction in the Court of...

Cavan · November 01, 2018

Detective who fired on suspect feared for his life, tiger kidnap trial hears

At Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, a garda detective testified on the fifteenth day of trial that he discharged two shots at a suspect during an armed chase...

Monaghan · November 01, 2018

Jail for attack on garda with glass bottle

A Dublin man has been sentenced to two and a half years imprisonment following his assault on a garda with a glass bottle. Christopher Reilly (28) pleaded...

Monaghan · November 01, 2018

Father of three stabbed man in neck during prearranged fight

A 26-year-old man from Walkinstown, Dublin has been sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for stabbing another man in the neck during a prearranged fight....

Cavan · October 30, 2018

Technical evidence in tiger kidnap trial

The trial of a man charged in connection with a tiger kidnapping in 2014 has continued at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court with technical evidence relating to...

Roscommon · October 30, 2018

High Court orders extradition of company director wanted over £5m tax fraud

The High Court has ordered the extradition of a Roscommon man wanted in the United Kingdom for involvement in a £5 million tax fraud. Thomas Joseph O'Connor,...

Roscommon · October 30, 2018

Farmer's latest appeal in long-running dispute is dismissed

The Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal by a Roscommon farmer against injunctions preventing him from placing animals on lands subject to sale...

Cavan · October 26, 2018

Legal argument continues in tiger kidnapping trial

The trial of a man charged in connection with a tiger kidnapping in 2014 has continued with legal argument held in the jury's absence at Dublin Circuit...

Monaghan · October 26, 2018

Serial thief "unwittingly" driven to crime scene by taxi driver

A man has entered guilty pleas to a series of shop robberies at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, having been driven to multiple crime scenes by a taxi driver...

Leitrim · October 26, 2018

Sentence for having explosives and handgun is upheld

A 24-year-old man from County Tipperary has had his sentence upheld after appealing a conviction relating to the possession of explosives and a firearm. The...

Monaghan · October 25, 2018

Man assaulted garda with glass bottle, causing permanent damage

A man has pleaded guilty to assaulting a garda with a glass bottle at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. Christopher Reilly, aged 28, of Cabra, Dublin, assaulted...

Donegal · October 25, 2018

Business owner spared jail for using fake documents to get mortgage

A Dublin business owner has been ordered to complete 240 hours of community service for using fraudulent documents to secure a €71,000 mortgage. Kevin Molloy,...

French Park · October 24, 2018

Three buses observed cutting fatal crash corner, expert tells trial

At Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, a forensic collision investigator gave evidence that at least three Dublin Bus vehicles were observed cutting the corner at...

French Park · October 24, 2018

Dublin bus driver guilty of careless driving causing death of cyclist

A jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has found Osborn Irabor, a Dublin Bus driver aged 58 from Tyrrelstown, Dublin, guilty of careless driving causing the...

Ballymote · October 24, 2018

Provisional liquidator appointed to Vodka firm

The High Court has appointed a provisional liquidator to Taiga Shtof Ltd, a company based at Laburnum House, Fairgreen Road, Ballymote, County Sligo, which...

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