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Monday 26 October 2020
The man told gardaí that he had abused the girl 120 times or more.
The 45-year-old man had pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting the child in 2013.
In 2015, Ciarán Murphy was found in a dog cage in his home by a passers-by who noticed his cottage was in flames.
Alex Harris has 63 previous convictions and was on bail for a previous burglary.
The gun, which had 11 rounds of ammunition in the magazine, was found in a school bag under a set of bunk beds.
He was 17 at the time of the incident.
David Swords, from Dublin, pleaded guilty to the assault.
The two children were taken into care in 2010.
The father-of-one was also ordered to continue to engage in a sex offenders’ treatment programme
Instructions from the DPP are that it would not be in the girl’s best interest for her abuser to be named.
Gerard Cully pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to robbery of the taxi driver.
John Cash received a three and a half year sentence.
The victim, now aged 90, said she felt an “immense sense of betrayal”.
Nicholas Keane did not steal the cars but agreed to sell them.
Liam Deegan was also accused of driving the wrong way down a motorway at night.
He has been registered as a sex offender.
Keith Mooney has 26 previous convictions including burglary, assault, criminal damage and public order.
The victim told gardaí that the bus had jerked forward when she noticed Thomas McMahon’s penis on her shoulder.
Leona O’Callaghan was groomed and raped by Patrick O’Dea when she was a child.
The victim said it had been unbearable to hear her mother giving evidence on her father’s behalf during the trial.
The accused had 164 previous convictions, mainly for road traffic offences, at the time of his arrest in 2016.
Michael Moloney pleaded guilty to eight counts of sexual abuse on dates between 2009 and 2015.
Paul Kelly didn’t see Daniel Ryan as he was pulling out onto an unlit roadway.
The judge agreed to excuse him.
The attack took place in 2003.
Patrick Nevin was due to be sentenced today.
The defendants spent thousands of euro over a seven-day stay in the capital last December.
This was the fifth time the case went to trial.
One woman would then tap the person on the shoulder and indicate that they had dropped €20.
The Tipperary TD had faced eight charges relating to corporation tax returns stemming from dates between August 2002 and August 2007.
One of nine charges has been dropped against the TD.
The State’s case is that the transaction was “done at the behest of Mr Lowry”.
The doctor had a hidden bank account into which he lodged 1,686 cheques.
Lynn is accused of stealing €4.1 million from Irish Nationwide on 4 April 2007.
The man was arrested after the girl was found in a Dublin suburb and complained that she had been raped by him.
The judge suspended an 18-month sentence on strict conditions having noted that he was unlikely to re-offend.
The 31-year-old pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to four charges of oral rape and four of sexual assault.
One of the three victims was a 13-year-old boy, who has since left Ireland as ‘he doesn’t feel safe here’.
Gavin O’Reilly has two children with his former partner.
Robert Bayly was described by his barrister as “a child prodigy” who fell into gambling when he moved to Leeds at 14.
WE’RE LESS THAN a week out from the scariest night of the year.
Halloween will look somewhat different this year but there’s nothing stopping us breaking out the box of decorations, throwing on a witch’s hat and doing up the outside of the house.
Cobwebs, ghouls and goblins, a scary pumpkin, there’s plenty of inspiration around at the moment as more and more people gear up for the 31st.
This morning, we want to know: Have you decorated your house for Halloween?
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