# dpp - Monday 29 April, 2013
Today, seven judges from the Supreme Court dismissed an appeal by Marie Fleming, who had sought to be allowed an assisted suicide without the risk of prosecution for anyone who helped her, but where to next with this contentious debate, asks Dr Eimear Spain.
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Chief Justice Susan Denham said the circumstances were “very tragic” but that there was no Constitutional ‘right to die’.
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# dpp - Thursday 25 April, 2013
The court will deliver a verdict in the case of Marie Fleming who is seeking to overturn the ban on assisted suicide.
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# dpp - Monday 18 March, 2013
Two other teenagers arrested in connection with the stabbing have been released.
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# dpp - Saturday 2 March, 2013
In March last year an investigation was launched by the Garda Ombudsman Commission into alleged wrongdoing in the investigation into the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier.
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# dpp - Friday 15 February, 2013
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
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Fiona Doyle said today that she may also pursue her mother in the courts.
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The actor, who plays Kevin Webster in the popular soap, has been charged with 19 sexual offences in total.
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# dpp - Wednesday 23 January, 2013
The former chief executive and chairman of the defunct Anglo Irish Bank is due in court alongside two other former directors at the bank this morning.
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# dpp - Wednesday 16 January, 2013
By not ordering the DPP to issue guidelines on factors which would influence a prosecution for carrying out an assisted suicide, Marie Fleming and others in her situation have been left in legal limbo, writes Dr Eimear Spain.
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# dpp - Saturday 12 January, 2013
A woman in her 50s died and a man was injured after a car crashed into them on Abbey Street in Dublin city centre on Friday.
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# dpp - Friday 4 January, 2013
There were 25 convictions for serious tax evasion in 2012 according to figures released by Revenue this evening.
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# dpp - Thursday 13 December, 2012
The investigation looked into accusations of collusion between gardaí and convicted drug dealer in the movement and supply of controlled drugs.
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# dpp - Monday 3 December, 2012
The male teenager was released without charge this evening following his arrest in connection with the death of a German man on Saturday morning.
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Cavan County Council and Oxigen Environmental Limited were fined as they failed to ensure that odours didn’t cause a nuisance at Corranure Landfill on Cootehill Road.
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The fourth person arrested, a male teenager, was taken into Garda custody yesterday evening.
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A woman in her 40s and two teenagers who were being held over the fatal stabbing in Dublin have all been released without charge.
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# dpp - Wednesday 7 November, 2012
While the DCC has spent over €300,000 on surveys and engineering in relation to Priory Hall, its ex-residents don’t have the same resources.
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The man in his mid-20s was released overnight as searches continue for the missing Laois woman.
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# dpp - Thursday 25 October, 2012
DPP Claire Loftus made the comments in the office’s annual report for 2011, saying she was concerned it could not sustain the same output in coming years.
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# dpp - Saturday 6 October, 2012
Gardaí seized cocaine and cannabis worth an estimated €117,000 during two searches in Naas.
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# dpp - Sunday 30 September, 2012
Michael Noonan says IBRC can’t make out exactly who from Ernst & Young was responsible for auditing its 2008 accounts.
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# dpp - Thursday 27 September, 2012
However, another suspect remains in custody.
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# dpp - Monday 24 September, 2012
Gardaí say the investigation is ongoing and a file is being sent to the DPP.
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# dpp - Friday 21 September, 2012
The announcement was made by the Director of Public Prosecutions in the UK in order to ‘assist them [prosecutors] in deciding whether criminal charges should be brought’.
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# dpp - Wednesday 19 September, 2012
MacArthur was jailed in 1982 after he killed a nurse in the Phoenix Park and shot dead a farmer.
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# dpp - Tuesday 18 September, 2012
Gardaí seized the cocaine during a search of two houses in Carlow on Sunday.
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# dpp - Friday 7 September, 2012
Robert Sheehan had been attending his brother’s wedding and had gone to the car park for a cigarette when he was shot dead.
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# dpp - Tuesday 28 August, 2012
Drennan has been the chief executive of the Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority for the last eight years.
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Paul Appleby, who announced his decision to retire last January but stayed on for an extra six months after discussions with Government, wants Gardaí to be able to hold suspects for longer than 24 hours.
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# dpp - Thursday 23 August, 2012
The 47-year-old man was arrested after the discovery of a woman’s body in a house in Naas, Co. Kildare.
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# dpp - Tuesday 14 August, 2012
Things we learned, loved and shared today…
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It was announced today that the DPP is to appeal the sentence given to Lyons, who was convicted of sexually attacking a woman in Dublin.
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# dpp - Saturday 30 June, 2012
The 21-year-old was being questioned in relation to an attack last weekend in which part of another woman’s nose was bitten off.
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# dpp - Wednesday 27 June, 2012
Alan Shatter has released the latest figures on the warrants issued and received in Ireland last year – but how are they issued? And what happens when they’re received?
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# dpp - Saturday 2 June, 2012
‘The precious shrine of St Manchan’ has been recovered this evening. Two men arrested in connection with its disappearance have been released by Gardaí.
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# dpp - Saturday 28 April, 2012
The former Fianna Fáil TD was arrested on suspicion of using a false invoice to claim for mobile phone expenses.
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# dpp - Saturday 7 April, 2012
A file is now being prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions.
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# dpp - Wednesday 4 April, 2012
Martin Callinan says that it is “right and prudent” for him to meet with DPP before launching any criminal investigation into issues raised by the Moriarty Tribunal.
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# dpp - Wednesday 28 March, 2012
Minister for Justice Alan Shatter has said that new law for search warrants is a priority for government after the Supreme Court ruled the existing law was unconstitutional.
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