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Thursday 30 July, 2020
Jailing Kinahan cartel member with claustrophobia akin to 'putting man with arachnophobia in a cell with spiders'
A Portlaoise Prison GP said Patrick Curtis’s anxiety is ‘severe’.
Thursday 16 July, 2020
Ian Bailey extradition hearing: Counsel asks judge to 'put a stop to abuse of process'
It is the third time French authorities are seeking Mr Bailey’s surrender in relation to the death of Sophie Toscan du Plantier.
Monday 6 July, 2020
Man (39) accused of attack on Kevin Lunney seeks to have charges dismissed
He is charged with false imprisonment and assault causing serious harm
Monday 29 June, 2020
Three men jailed for taking part in Kinahan cartel plan to kill Hutch family member
The three men received sentences totalling 19 years at the Special Criminal Court today.
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Friday 26 June, 2020
Family members of Patricia O'Connor receive prison sentences totalling eight-and-a-half years
Her husband Gus reported her missing despite knowing she was dead.
Thursday 28 May, 2020
Court hears Kinahan gang carries out 'execution-style' killings as Dublin man jailed for murder plot
Mark Capper was jailed for seven and a half years at the Special Criminal Court today.
Thursday 30 April, 2020
Grangegorman murders: Damages claim made by killer dismissed by European Court of Human Rights
Mark Nash is currently serving four life sentences at Midlands Prison in Portlaoise.
Monday 30 March, 2020
Woman (47) found guilty of murdering her partner in drunken row in 2014
This is the last trial at the Central Criminal Court with an attending jury due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Tuesday 3 March, 2020
Third man appears before Special Criminal Court charged with attacking and falsely imprisoning man in Louth farmhouse
Thomas McGuinness (33), of Chestnut Court, Navan, Co Meath appeared before court today.
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Monday 2 March, 2020
Cork man who killed friend by repeatedly punching him in head during pub row jailed for manslaughter
Michael Dineen was sentenced to nine years imprisonment with the last year suspended.
Tuesday 25 February, 2020
Kieran Greene found guilty of murdering woman whose remains were found in Dublin and Wicklow mountains
Patricia O’Connor was Kieran Greene’s partner’s mother.
Monday 10 February, 2020
Man accused of murdering his partner's mother was visited by his girlfriend three times while he was on remand
The trial has heard that the body of Mrs O’Connor was dismembered into 15 separate parts.
Friday 24 January, 2020
Neighbour tells trial he did not see anything strange on night Patricia O'Connor was allegedly murdered
The witness testified that the O’Connor family were very nice people as well as good neighbours.
Wednesday 22 January, 2020
Murder accused told gardaí he believed mother-in-law tried to kill her husband
The jury was listening to garda interviews today in the trial of Kieran Greene (34).
Wednesday 15 January, 2020
Body of 61-year-old woman was dismembered into 15 separate parts, murder trial hears
Kieran Greene has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Patricia O’Connor on 29 May 2017.
Friday 13 December, 2019
Man jailed for murder of infant son found not guilty by reason of insanity following retrial
Yusif Ali Abdi was initially tried before the Central Criminal Court in 2003.
Monday 9 December, 2019
Jury sworn in for trial of man accused of murdering his 20-month-old son
Yusif Ali Abdi is charged with murdering Nathan Baraka Andrew Ali on 17 April 2001.
Friday 22 November, 2019
Man who disposed of chainsaw used to dismember body found guilty of impeding father's prosecution
Paul Wells Junior was charged with impeding the apprehension or prosecution of his father Paul Wells Senior.
Wednesday 20 November, 2019
Ross Hutch jailed for two-and-a-half years for robbing pharmacy with bike saddle
The incident happened at Boles Pharmacy in Drumcondra in April this year.
Friday 8 November, 2019
Earliest possible release dates for Boy A and Boy B will be in 2031 and 2027
The judge said he wanted the court to be kept fully informed about the boys’ progress and development in custody.
Thursday 24 October, 2019
Mother can't be committed to CMH as it has reached 'full capacity in its quota of female patients', court hears
The woman was yesterday found not guilty by reason of insanity of the murder of her three-year-old daughter.
Wednesday 23 October, 2019
Woman who smothered her daughter was suffering from severe depression with psychotic features, court hears
The woman had a ‘fixed, false and psychotic view’ of her child’s autistic condition, the trial was told.
Tuesday 22 October, 2019
Mother who admits suffocating her three-year-old daughter was 'obsessed' over autism, court hears
The woman has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
Thursday 8 August, 2019
Derek Devoy to face Special Criminal Court trial over gun possession and garda assault charges
A production order was made for Devoy to appear before the three-judge court on 8 October.
Monday 29 July, 2019
Gangland criminal jailed for six years for 'intricate' plan to assassinate Dublin man
Alan Wilson was secretly recorded by gardaí discussing a plot to murder Gary Hanley, as part of an “ongoing feud”.
Thursday 20 June, 2019
Man guilty of drug possession after gardaí discover €1.35 million worth of heroin under bed
The man was found guilty at the Special Criminal Court yesterday.
Tuesday 11 June, 2019
Judge tells jury in Ana Kriegel murder trial not to 'guess or make up theories' in relation to the case
The judge is expected to finish his charge to the jury tomorrow.
Wednesday 3 April, 2019
'Border Fox' Dessie O'Hare 'unlikely' to avoid jail, judge tells Special Criminal Court
O’Hare has been remanded in custody until next week.
Thursday 24 January, 2019
Criminal Brian Rattigan jailed for nine years for killing former friend
The former gangland figure had pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
Wednesday 16 January, 2019
Man wanted in US on manslaughter charge claims life at risk if extradited from Ireland
Samuel Joseph Tucker is wanted to stand trial in the US on charges of driving under the influence of alcohol.
Wednesday 12 December, 2018
Estonian hitman Imre Arakas jailed for six years for conspiring to commit murder
The 60-year-old admitted last month to conspiring with others to murder James Gately.
Thursday 22 November, 2018
Man pleads guilty to helping a criminal gang carry out a murder on a Dublin street
David Douglas was shot dead in the south inner city on 1 July 2016.
Monday 12 November, 2018
Estonian man pleads guilty to conspiring to murder man in Northern Ireland
The defendant has been remanded in custody until 30 November, when he will be sentenced.
Tuesday 30 October, 2018
Roscommon man to be extradited to UK over £5 million tax fraud
The impact of Brexit was one of the grounds on which Thomas Joseph O’Connor had opposed his extradition.
Thursday 18 October, 2018
Man who was on trial over Noel ‘Duck Egg’ Kirwan murder pleads guilty to facilitating criminal organisation in carrying out offence
Jason Keating had originally pleaded not guilty at the non-jury Special Criminal Court to the murder of Kirwan on 2 October.
Monday 15 October, 2018
Man who helped criminal organisation murder Sunset House manager sentenced
Michael Barr was shot seven times by a masked gunman on 25 April 2016.
Tuesday 31 July, 2018
Two Dublin men jailed for IRA membership
The men’s sentences were backdated to 2 August 2017 when they went into custody.
Monday 30 July, 2018
Two organised crime ‘foot soldiers’ jailed for ‘shambolic’ plan to murder man
Gary Gleeson and Stephen Dunne were sentenced to 12 years each.
Wednesday 25 July, 2018
Man pleads guilty to facilitating gang in carrying out Sunset House shooting
The offences are alleged to have occurred between 23 and 25 April, 2016.
Thursday 5 July, 2018
Man accused of murdering Gareth Hutch had earplugs seized for DNA evidence, court hears
Gareth Hutch was shot dead in Dublin on the morning of 24 May 2016.
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Poll: Would you go to a socially-distanced concert?
CONCERTS AND MANY other events have, of course, been cancelled during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Images of a socially-distanced concert in England were widely shared during the week.
Fans at the Sam Fender concert at the Virgin Money Unity Arena, a pop-up venue in Gosforth Park, Newcastle, watched the outdoor concert in groups of up to five people from 500 separate raised metal platforms.
Promoters described the event as the world’s first socially-distanced gig. Some people thought the layout looked great, while others were not so sure.
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