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Seamus Robert was in his early twenties while the victims were aged from around six at the time of the offending.
Lynn pleaded not guilty to 21 counts of theft between in 2006 and 2007,
Lynn has been remanded in custody until 20 June.
The court heard the man was disqualified from driving at the time of the offence.
The teenager has 32 previous convictions, including drug and road traffic offences.
The 38-year-old man, who had been friends with the woman for seven years, pleaded guilty to orally raping her during a prolonged attack in 2017.
A 17-year-old boy is accused of raping and sexually assaulting a girl in a south Dublin park last year.
Teachers became concerned when they saw the man kissing the youngest girl on the lips.
The judge noted that he was a man of considerable abilities but said getting away with crime wasn’t one of them.
The victim was taken to hospital with a fractured jaw and damage to his teeth.
The man has 134 previous convictions.
The 15-year-old is due to be sentenced for one count of robbery later this month.
The six men were accused of falsely imprisoning former Tánaiste Joan Burton and her adviser Karen O’Connell in 2014.
The judge said the prosecution’s case had failed if the jury were not satisfied Burton and her assistant were fully restrained.
The court heard Keith Hearne carried out “a series of extremely violent sexual offences”.
Applause broke out in court after the charges against 50-year-old Ken Purcell were officially dropped.
Six years ago Darren Martyn and others redirected users from The Sun’s website to a page that said Rupert Murdoch was dead.
The judge told the jury this morning that she was discharging the female juror.
The man does not accept the guilty verdicts of the jury.
A garda told the court she overheard Councillor Michael Murphy saying, “Will we give her sanctuary in the church or will we keep her in the church?”
Garda Gavin Cooke has denied the claim.
“My politics is not about hating anybody,” Burton told Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.
He told gardaí he took part in the hacking in retaliation for the UK media company’s involvement in the phone hacking scandal.
Keith Hearne (28) told the woman, “I could break your neck here and now, would you prefer that?”
The eldest brother, who held a good job at a financial firm in London, fell into the hands of loan sharks while gambling in the UK.
The convicted man has 20 previous convictions, including for robbery and theft
The sentence will run alongside his two life terms as required by law meaning Howard will serve no extra time in prison.
The Dublin driver was travelling at up to twice the legal speed limit, the court heard today.
He was taken into custody and will be sentenced on 15 May.
Andris Andruss (56) dragged his partner of two years back inside their Finglas home after she told him she was leaving him.
The girl, who was in court for the sentence hearing, said she found it hard to cope after the incident.
He was described as a “vulnerable” person with few social skills who viewed the teenager as his girlfriend.
The man was found guilty of raping his eldest daughter over the period of one year.
“He just acted like a normal loving father, when he was far from that,” the 24-year-old told the court.
Craig Dempsey was with a chainsaw-wielding accomplice.
The pensioner’s two sons had been killed in the past few years and was in ill health when she was robbed.
“He is a Sikh by religion and had to have his hair cut,” Judge Codd said. “He found that difficult.”
The attack happened at a city centre homeless shelter for people with mental health issues
The accused had arrived to the scene at a late stage of the assault in a taxi.
The monstrance containing the sacrament has not been recovered.
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