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Thursday 3 December 2020
Over some festive drinks and snacks, we asked the couples to open up.
Graham Stafford (36) has been jailed for four and a half years.
Video footage from one of the attacker’s phones showed the men laughing together after one of their assaults.
18-year-old David Lynch has pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.
Graham Stafford broke into the home believing one of the family owed him €3,000.
Over some festive drinks and snacks, we asked the couples to open up.
Justice Carmel Stewart imposed a seven-year sentence with the final 18 months suspended.
Ellavita Flynn went on to sell the items for “relatively little money”, the court heard.
Three women were tied up and abducted during the 2014 incident.
The judge said Liam O’Dwyer was in a position of trust and abused it to leave his victim “groomed into submission”.
Paschal Kelly was convicted last December of robbing a Dublin post office and threatening to kill three women.
The family of the boy told the man that they forgave him .
He was given a 10-year sentence with the final six years suspended.
David Marcinkiewicz drove his car into a group of three male friends shortly after instigating a fight with them at a petrol station.
William Butler (52) told gardaí that temptation had gotten the better of him after Kathleen Carroll, a family friend, had allowed him stay at her home when he was in need.
Paschal Kelly (53) with an address at Cootehill, Co. Cavan, had pleaded not guilty to trespass and to false imprisonment.
Anthony Graham pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to robbing then 81-year-old Rita Murphy.
Joseph Fraser attacked his girlfriend after she hid his car keys so he wouldn’t drink-drive, a court heard.
Emmet Fogarty got into trouble with Revenue and developed an alcohol and gambling addiction.
One of the men pointed himself out on CCTV footage but said: “I don’t know where the sexual assault was though”.
Ben Mooney later told gardaí that he had contacted up to 15 teenage boys in the two years before he was caught.
Susan Lawlor tied told a court how she was bundled into the backseat of her car before being driven to a field in an unknown location.
The married father was unanimously convicted of sexual assault.
The woman told gardaí that “on a scale of one to ten, the pain was 11″.
Tsvetomir Velikov admitted to being reckless about the girl’s age.
The woman said the job she had taken hoping to prepare for her future, instead led to the end of her dreams.
The man had initially denied knowing the girl, but later admitted to having sex with her in his bedroom.
The victims told the court that the man would tell people to stay away from them because they had the virus.
Thefts of over €280,000 came to light when a staff member noticed discrepancies on the accounts.
The man was 59 when he raped his 15-year-old sister-in-law.
He had pleaded not guilty to the offence and has no previous convictions.
The man has pleaded not guilty to intentionally or recklessly causing serious harm to the two women.
The man has pleaded not guilty to intentionally or recklessly causing serious harm to the two women.
The man has pleaded not guilty to intentionally or recklessly causing serious harm to the two women.
The defence team was “potentially hamstrung” over emails between expert witnesses on the case.
Eoin Berkeley has already served 18 months on remand.
A hospital report detailed brain haemorrhages, facial bruising, and detached retinas among the baby’s injuries.
Sandra Higgins has pleaded not guilty.
The man has received a nine-year prison sentence.
In a victim impact statement, his stepdaughter said her teenage years were ones of “sadness, isolation and depression”.
Garrett Philips did not inform his wife about the matter until the evening before his trial last month.
THIS YEAR HAS given us a lot of unexpected things, but one of the bigger cultural changes of 2020 has been the wide-scale move to working from home.
Writing in TheJournal.ie today, Arlene Vithaldas of the UCC Academy argues that it’s time for society to change its view of a workplace that includes commuting to offices.
Some people have found that working from home has given them more time, because they don’t have to commute both ways or end up getting stuck in the office after hours.
However, others miss the collaborative nature and social aspect of being in the office, as well as the chance to regularly be in urban centres where offices tend to be located.
Today we’re asking: Do you enjoy working remotely?
Poll Results:
Share your story: voices@thejournal.ie
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Judge 'completely agrees' complainants in rape cases should have access to legal advice
Mr Justice Paul Butler made his comments during his sentencing of a 24-year-old Dublin man.