Case against Roscommon eviction accused 'fundamentally flawed', defence tells jury
A Donegal builder accused of participating in an armed attack on security guards at a repossessed farmhouse in County Roscommon has had his prosecution...
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No case against Lordship accused, barrister tells trial
At the Special Criminal Court on 17 May 2023, counsel for Brendan Treanor mounted a detailed challenge to the prosecution's case in the ongoing trial relating...
Accused wanted to ensure repossessed farm guards would not return through violence and 'humiliation', State tells jury
Four men have pleaded not guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to charges arising from an incident at a repossessed farm property near Strokestown, County...
Tattoo allegedly glorifying Lordship robbery 'an extraordinary act of hubris', prosecution tell trial
The Special Criminal Court heard closing submissions on 15 May in the trial of Brendan Treanor, aged 34 formerly of Dundalk, and James Flynn, aged 32 of South...
Strokestown farm attackers 'bent on violence and domination', State tell jury
Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard closing arguments in the trial of four men charged in connection with a violent attack on security personnel at a...
Ryanair fails in bid to overturn €94k damages award
The Court of Appeal has upheld a €94,000 damages award made to a cabin supervisor from Cavan who sustained injuries during a workplace accident aboard a...
Organised gang with local knowledge targeted Lordship Credit Union, trial told
A Special Criminal Court heard closing arguments on 15 May 2023 in the trial of two men accused of involvement in a fatal robbery at Lordship Credit Union in...
Jury deliberating in trial of psychic accused of €10k deception
A jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has begun deliberations in the trial of a woman accused of defrauding two siblings of €10,200 through representations...
Combined 17.5 years for Regency Hotel getaway drivers
Paul Murphy and Jason Bonney were sentenced at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin on 12 May 2023 to combined terms of imprisonment totalling seventeen and a...
'Your father said you are to give me €10,000'; psychic goes on trial accused of deception
A woman has pleaded not guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to two counts of dishonestly by deception after being accused of telling siblings that their...
Custom House Capital execs jailed over €61m investor fraud conspiracy
Four senior executives of investment firm Custom House Capital have been sentenced at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following their convictions in a fraud...
Monk's bid to recoup Regency legal costs runs into scheduling difficulty
A scheduling complication has postponed Gerard Hutch's application to recover legal costs from the State following his acquittal on murder charges at the...
200 victim impact statements to be read out in sentencing of Custom House Capital fraud conspirators
Four men were sentenced at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following their guilty pleas in connection with a significant investment fraud at Custom House...
Mobster directed 20-strong West of Ireland gang
A 38-year-old Sligo man has pleaded guilty at the Special Criminal Court to directing a 20-member criminal organisation that operated across the northwest...
Strokestown accused told gardai he organised people to 'take back the house peacefully'
A 56-year-old man from Boyle, Co Roscommon has told gardaí that he organised approximately 30 men to travel to a repossessed farmhouse near Strokestown on 16...
Monk to seek legal costs from the State
Gerard Hutch, who was acquitted in April 2023 by the Special Criminal Court of murdering Kinahan Cartel member David Byrne during the Regency Hotel attack in...
Court orders winding-up of Monaghan hotel company
The High Court has ordered the winding-up of Nuremore Hotel Management Ltd, the company responsible for operating the Nuremore Hotel and country club in...
Bray Boxing Club murder accused in custody for five years, without new trial date
A man accused of murdering Bobby Messett and attempting to murder boxing coach Pete Taylor during a shooting at Bray Boxing Club in June 2018 has spent nearly...
Strokestown accused told gardai he was asleep at home on night of attack
A man accused of participating in an attack on security personnel at a repossessed farm in County Roscommon has told gardaí he was asleep at his home on the...
Sergeant tells trial that reasonable force was used to remove family from repossessed farm
A garda sergeant has testified at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court that reasonable force was employed by security personnel during the removal of occupants from...
Detective tells Strokestown eviction case he didn't believe body-cam clip was relevant
A garda detective has given evidence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court in the trial of four men charged in connection with an alleged attack on security...
Gangster 'Fat' Freddie Thompson in bid to overturn murder conviction
A Dublin man serving a life sentence for the 2016 murder of a business owner has launched an appeal against his conviction at the Court of Appeal. The...
Journalist refused to give information on source, Strokestown repossession trial hears
At Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, a jury heard that a journalist who filmed burning vehicles during an alleged attack on a repossessed farm near Strokestown,...
Two sentenced for roles in unexplained murder of dad with "Heart of Gold"
Two Dublin men have received substantial prison sentences for their roles in facilitating the shooting death of Thomas McCarthy, a fifty-five-year-old English...
Senior garda denies failures over Strokestown house repossession
A garda superintendent has firmly rejected suggestions that policing failures contributed to a violent incident at a repossessed house near Strokestown,...
Psychiatric assessment for man charged with two murders and attempted murder
A 22-year-old man charged with two murders and an attempted murder in Sligo has received a psychiatric assessment, the Central Criminal Court heard this week....
Security guard alleges he was struck with bat and cut with blade at repossessed house
A security guard gave evidence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court of a violent attack at a repossessed property in Strokestown, County Roscommon, on 16 December...
Architect of 'barbaric' attack on businessman fails in bid to overturn conviction
William Twomey, a former financial advisor from Warrenpoint in County Down, has been unsuccessful in challenging his conviction at the Court of Appeal...
Spotter for 'murder gang' who gunned down Eamon Kelly seeks to overturn conviction
Darren Murphy, aged 53 and originally from Convoy, County Donegal, has failed in his appeal against a life sentence for murder at the Court of Appeal. Murphy...
CHC investor fraud did more damage to woman's life than WW2, court hears as 197 victims give statements
Four men pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to their roles in a fraud scheme targeting investors in Custom House Capital Ltd between October 2008...
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