Native Irish speaker found not guilty of murdering grandfather by reason of insanity
A 39-year-old man from Gweedore in County Donegal has been found not guilty of murdering his grandfather by reason of insanity following a majority jury...
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'Just and humane society' seeks not to punish those who are unwell, defence reminds murder trial jury
A 39-year-old man from Gweedore in County Donegal was found not guilty of murdering his grandfather by reason of insanity following a jury verdict at the...
'I don’t care if he was running from here to Donegal': judge remands athlete in custody over €80k drugs haul
A 24-year-old Galway athlete has been remanded in custody following his guilty plea to drug possession charges at Galway Circuit Criminal Court. Richard...
Murder accused told doctors that release of abuser Michael Ferry caused him to 'spiral'
A 39-year-old man from Carrickcoyle in County Donegal's Gaeltacht has been found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity following a jury verdict at the...
Native Irish speaker described how he 'smacked' grandfather's head with granite stone, cement block
A 39-year-old man from Derrybeg in County Donegal has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to the murder of his 78-year-old grandfather at Carrickcoyle on...
Accountant jailed for stealing €1.4m from KPMG
A qualified accountant from Shrule, County Mayo, has been sentenced to two years in custody at Galway Circuit Criminal Court after pleading guilty to stealing...
Man pleads not guilty to murdering grandfather in Donegal Gaeltacht
A 39-year-old man from Carrickcoyle, Derrybeg in County Donegal has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to the murder of his grandfather, Derek Burns,...
Cancer patient who claimed employer no longer wanter her as 'face of business' wins €20k
A woman who worked at a marina in Fahan, County Donegal for over two decades has been awarded €20,000 for disability discrimination by the Workplace Relations...
Garda murderer claims psychiatric evidence contradicted legal test for insanity
Stephen Silver, a motorbike mechanic from Foxford in County Mayo, has appealed his April 2023 conviction for the murder of Detective Garda Colm Horkan at...
Carpenter had 'glassy eyes' when gardai pulled him over
A 39-year-old self-employed carpenter from Cavan has been disqualified from driving for two years following a conviction for drink driving. Eduard Hupalov was...
'A very dangerous man': convicted murderer Rea sentenced for raping cousin
Patrick Rea, aged 55 and currently serving a life sentence for murder, has been convicted and sentenced at the Central Criminal Court for the rape and...
'Unfortunate situation' sees jury dismissed in trial of man accused of 'indescribably savage' murder
A jury has been discharged in the trial of a 33-year-old man accused of murdering a 58-year-old at a housing unit on Tone Street in Ballina, County Mayo in...
Fugitives have 'no legitimate expectation of permanent immunity', court finds in upholding extradition over 1975 murder of RUC officer
The Court of Appeal has upheld extradition orders against two men wanted in Northern Ireland for offences connected to the 1975 murder of an RUC officer. John...
Man admits Mayo claw hammer attack
A 23-year-old man from Ballina has pleaded guilty to assault causing harm following a violent incident outside St Mary's Secondary School in April 2021....
Murder accused said he gouged flatmate's eye out when he came at him with knife
A man has pleaded not guilty to murder at the Central Criminal Court following the death of his flatmate at an apartment on Tone Street, Ballina, County Mayo...
West of Ireland couple sentenced after children found living in squalor
A couple at Castlebar Circuit Court has been sentenced for child neglect after their two young autistic children were discovered living in severely unsanitary...
Witness denies seeing deceased 'beating the s**t out' of murder accused
A witness has denied observing the deceased wielding a metal pole against the man accused of his murder during an altercation at a Ballina apartment. Declan...
Witness tells trial of moment she and son 'fled for their lives' after murder accused barged into home
A woman residing at a Peter McVerry Trust housing unit on Tone Street, Ballina, has given evidence at the Central Criminal Court describing how she and her...
'Almost indescribable savagery': murder trial jury hears man suffered 'serious violence'
At the Central Criminal Court, a jury heard opening arguments in the murder trial of Liam O'Leary (33), who denies killing 58-year-old John Casserly at a...
Man goes on trial accused of murder at McVerry Trust housing unit
A 33-year-old man has entered a not guilty plea to murder at the Central Criminal Court. Liam O'Leary, formerly of Kiltimagh, is charged with the murder of...
Young Carlow woman may avoid jail for role in €12,000 Social Welfare fraud
A 23-year-old Carlow woman may avoid imprisonment through community service following her guilty plea to money laundering charges at Carlow Circuit Criminal...
‘I hold no ill will’: Daughter of Mayo woman killed by truck addresses driver
A delivery driver has been sentenced to five months in prison at Castlebar Circuit Court after pleading guilty to careless driving causing the death of a...
Ousted State agency boss ordered not to name third parties after reference to alleged blackmail attempt by senator
A former chief executive of Inland Fisheries Ireland has told the Workplace Relations Commission that he was pressured to reinstate a suspended employee and...
Judge emphasises importance of media following press exclusion from Garda whistleblower case
A High Court judge has stressed the fundamental importance of media access to court proceedings while examining a challenge to press exclusion from a...
Senior garda challenges media exclusion following disclosures regarding 'unsafe' gun holsters
A detective superintendent at the Garda National Technical Bureau has secured an expedited High Court hearing to challenge a decision by the Workplace...
Former IFI CEO claims he was 'blackmailed' by Senator
A former chief executive of Inland Fisheries Ireland is pursuing claims of unfair dismissal and breach of protected disclosures at the Workplace Relations...
Mentally ill man sexually assaulted woman (19) at Dublin airport
A 56-year-old Brazilian man has been sentenced at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following a sexual assault at Dublin Airport in August 2025. Rogerio Afonso...
Supervisor in 'sophisticated' drug operation jailed for ten years
A man has been jailed for ten years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following his conviction for supervising a drug trafficking operation. Tomasz...
Ex-IFI CEO alleges he was subjected to 'intimidation and threats' after suspending chairman's brother
A former chief executive of Inland Fisheries Ireland has alleged he was subjected to intimidation and threats by the organisation's then-chairman following...
Prison for abuser who sexually assaulted younger sister six decades ago
A 79-year-old man from Mullingar, County Westmeath, has been sentenced to three years imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court following his guilty plea to...
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