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Convoy · June 01, 2017

Louth man guilty of IRA membership

A 44-year-old man from Dundalk in County Louth has been convicted of membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army by the...

Monaghan · June 01, 2017

Monaghan man convicted of IRA membership

A 44-year-old man from County Monaghan has been convicted of membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army by the Special...

Clones · June 01, 2017

Mum suffering from personality disorder is jailed for stabbing toddler son to death

A 47-year-old woman from Ballybrack has been sentenced to five years imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court for the manslaughter of her two-year-old son...

Mayo · May 29, 2017

Rapist threw victim across laneway to avoid being seen by CCTV

A 27-year-old man from County Mayo pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to raping a woman on 16 May 2015 in a Mayo town. The court heard that the man...

Castlebar · May 29, 2017 Also covered in Claremorris

Date set for teenager's murder trial

A trial date has been set for a teenager charged with murder in County Mayo. The 17-year-old accused, who cannot be named due to his age, faces a charge of...

Claremorris · May 26, 2017

Mayo brothers plead guilty to having explosives

Two brothers from Claremorris, County Mayo, pleaded guilty at the Special Criminal Court on 26 May 2017 to unlawful possession of explosives. Colin Mannion,...

Convoy · May 25, 2017

Evidence against IRA accused "does not exist", defence tell court

A 44-year-old man from County Louth has pleaded not guilty to membership of an unlawful organisation, a charge he denies relates to the Irish Republican Army....

Convoy · May 24, 2017

Judges to rule on whether IRA membership case will proceed

A 44-year-old man from Dundalk, County Louth, will have the Special Criminal Court determine tomorrow whether his trial for alleged IRA membership can...

Castleblayney · May 23, 2017

Monaghan man to stand trial accused of IRA membership

James Joseph Cassidy, aged 53 and resident of Tullycollive in Castleblayney, Co. Monaghan, has been charged with membership of an unlawful organisation...

Clones · May 23, 2017

Mother suffering from personality disorder described son as "fake child" on day she killed him

A woman has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of her two-year-old son at the Central Criminal Court. Hazel Waters, aged 47, admitted responsibility for the...

Roscommon · May 22, 2017

Serial killer Nash to appeal murder convictions

Mark Nash is to appeal one of his murder convictions in the Court of Appeal. Nash was convicted in 2015 of murdering two women whose bodies were discovered in...

Monaghan · May 22, 2017

Case against IRA accused "a farce", defence tell court

A man from County Monaghan has completed trial at the Special Criminal Court on a charge of membership of an unlawful organization styling itself the Irish...

Donegal · May 19, 2017

“Enormous and gross breach of trust”: jail for man who raped grand-niece

A 66-year-old man from Donegal has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court following his conviction for sexual offences...

Convoy · May 19, 2017

Garda did not see any alleged attempts to "extract" IRA accused through car window

At the Special Criminal Court, a Detective Garda Unit officer gave evidence regarding the arrest of a man accused of IRA membership. Detective Garda Paul...

Letterkenny · May 18, 2017

Sentence almost halved for man who caused serious, permanent injuries to fellow drinker

Michael Lyons, aged 55, of Currin, Glencolmcille, County Donegal, has had his prison sentence reduced on appeal at the Court of Appeal. Lyons pleaded guilty...

Monaghan · May 18, 2017

IRA accused made no response to certain material questions, trial hears

A 44-year-old man from Scotstown, County Monaghan, has pleaded not guilty to membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army...

Monaghan · May 17, 2017

Arrest of man on trial for IRA membership legal, court rules

The Special Criminal Court has ruled that the arrest of a Monaghan man charged with IRA membership was lawful. Jim Smyth, aged 44, of Aghalissabeagh,...

Westport · May 17, 2017

Singer Tommy Fleming says "Irish TV" broadcast hurt his career

Singer Tommy Fleming brought proceedings in the High Court against Telifís Mhaigh Eo Teoranta, trading as Irish TV, alleging breach of copyright following the...

Monaghan · May 16, 2017

IRA accused told armed detectives he was coming from "Mass"

A 44-year-old man from Scotstown, County Monaghan, has pleaded not guilty to membership of an unlawful organization styling itself the Irish Republican Army...

Roscommon · May 15, 2017

Senior HSE executive wins appeal against re-assignment

A senior nursing executive with the HSE has successfully appealed against her temporary re-assignment to a non-clinical role. The Court of Appeal found that...

Monaghan · May 15, 2017

Monaghan man goes on trial accused of IRA membership

A Monaghan man has pleaded not guilty to membership of an unlawful organization styling itself the Irish Republican Army before the Special Criminal Court....

Roscommon · May 12, 2017

Notorious garda murderer sentenced for throwing keg at jeweller's window

A 70-year-old man has been sentenced to two and a half years imprisonment, with the balance suspended from June, at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for criminal...

Longford · May 12, 2017

Farmer who told repo men to strip naked and get into pen with agitated boar is sent to jail

A pig farmer from County Longford has been imprisoned following the dismissal of his appeal against conviction at the Court of Appeal. Donal Connaughton, aged...

Convoy · May 12, 2017

"Well made and viable" IEDs found in car stopped by gardai, trial hears

The Special Criminal Court has heard evidence that two "very well-made" and "viable" improvised explosive devices were discovered in a vehicle stopped by...

Longford · May 11, 2017

13-year sentence for man who raped and sexually abused nieces

A 49-year-old man from Longford has been sentenced to 13 years imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court following his guilty pleas to seven charges of...

Castlebar · May 11, 2017

"Significant threat to women” has sentence for sexual exploitation cut on appeal

A man convicted of sexually exploiting a child online has had his sentence reduced on appeal at the Court of Appeal. The defendant, aged 23, with an address...

Convoy · May 11, 2017

IRA accused forcibly removed from car after being stopped by gardai, trial hears

Gardaí forcibly removed a man from his vehicle during a roadside stop on the N52 in County Meath in December 2014, the Special Criminal Court heard. Michael...

Convoy · May 10, 2017

Surveillance evidence in IRA trial

A trial at the Special Criminal Court has heard surveillance evidence relating to the movements of two vehicles through counties Westmeath and Louth on 16...

Convoy · May 09, 2017

Louth IRA accused driving in convoy with man found with IEDs, trial hears

Michael Connolly, aged 44 and resident of Grange Drive in Dundalk, County Louth, has pleaded not guilty to membership of an unlawful organisation styling...

Donegal · May 08, 2017

Sex abuse victim tells court she felt she lived life "in a prison"

A woman who endured sexual abuse as a child has described feeling imprisoned by the trauma throughout her life. The victim gave evidence at the Central...

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