'Doesn't matter a damn' where bug travels once placed lawfully, Regency trial hears
The Special Criminal Court examined the legal scope of garda audio surveillance in late November 2022 during the trial of Gerard Hutch, who denies murdering...
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Property developer allowed write off over €170m in debt in insolvency arrangement
The High Court has approved a Personal Insolvency Arrangement allowing a former property developer to write off approximately €170 million in debt. The...
Garda bug sought under 'culture of secrecy', Hutch lawyers tell Regency trial
At the Special Criminal Court in Dublin, defence counsel for Gerard Hutch challenged the admissibility of audio recordings captured by a garda surveillance...
Parents who abducted own daughter 'heavily involved in substance abuse'
A 33-year-old man who abducted his two-year-old daughter from a health centre in County Mayo last October has had sentencing adjourned pending trial on...
Graveyard flower seller jailed after being caught with €217k in unlicensed tobacco
A Dublin man has been jailed for two and a half years following his conviction for supplying untaxed tobacco products. Eamonn Lynch, 44, of Lanesborough...
Jury fail to reach verdict in Detective Garda Colm Horkan murder trial
A jury at the Central Criminal Court has been unable to reach a verdict in the trial of Stephen Silver concerning the death of Detective Garda Colm Horkan at...
Garda Colm Horkan murder trial jury given majority verdict
The jury in the trial of Stephen Silver, a motorbike mechanic from Aughavard, Foxford, County Mayo, has been instructed that majority verdicts are now...
'Unprecedented rise' in construction costs sees examiner appointed to social housing builders
The High Court has appointed an interim examiner to Blacklough Construction Limited following an application on grounds of cash-flow insolvency. The company,...
Minister rescinds decision to transfer murderer to UK after mother's action
The Minister for Justice has rescinded approval for the transfer of Logan Jackson to a UK prison following legal action initiated by Tracey Tully, mother of...
Jury continue deliberations in Garda Colm Horkan murder trial
The jury in the trial of Stephen Silver, a 46-year-old motorbike mechanic from Aughavard, Foxford, County Mayo, continued deliberations at the Central...
Jury deliberating in Detective Garda Colm Horkan murder trial
A jury at the Central Criminal Court has begun deliberating in the trial of Stephen Silver, aged 46, from Aughaward, Foxford, County Mayo, who is charged with...
Family of UDR man murdered by IRA granted access to court file
The family of Corporal James Elliott, a part-time Ulster Defence Regiment member killed by the Provisional IRA in April 1972 near Newry, has been granted...
Gardai believed IRA firearms and explosives were being stored at ex-SF councillor's home
During the trial of Gerard Hutch at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin, Inspector Padraig Boyce gave evidence concerning the grounds for obtaining a search...
Solicitor jailed for stealing over €200k from clients
A former solicitor from Claremorris, County Mayo, has been sentenced to 18 months imprisonment at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for stealing over €200,000...
Member of notorious cross-border ATM theft gang fails in appeal
Gerard Duffy, 32, of County Monaghan, has failed in his appeal against an eight-year and nine-month custodial sentence imposed for his role in a cross-border...
'This is not trial by expert, this is trial by jury', judge charges
At the Central Criminal Court, Mr Justice Paul McDermott has instructed the jury in the trial of Stephen Silver to apply common sense when evaluating...
Court hears evidence of 'intergenerational' Hutch Criminal Organisation for first time
The Special Criminal Court heard detailed evidence on the structure and operations of the "Hutch Criminal Organisation" during trial proceedings connected to...
'Unsafe' to convict garda murder accused, defence tell jury
At the Central Criminal Court, defence counsel for Stephen Silver argued it would be unsafe to convict him of the murder of Detective Garda Colm Horkan,...
Jeep belonging to Regency accused had 'fresh valet smell', garda tells trial
At the Special Criminal Court trial of three men charged in connection with the February 2016 murder of Kinahan Cartel member David Byrne at the Regency Hotel...
Lawyer questions whether prosecution have proven Detective Garda Colm Horkan was a garda
At the Central Criminal Court, counsel for Stephen Silver, who denies murdering Detective Garda Colm Horkan, has questioned whether the prosecution has...
Pair jailed for roles in violent robbery of sex worker
Two men have been sentenced at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for their roles in a violent robbery at a hotel in Swords in November 2019. Ioan Galben, aged 40,...
Regency murder accused seeks to have garda interviews ruled inadmissible
A man charged in connection with the Regency Hotel murder has sought to have garda interviews ruled inadmissible on grounds that he was questioned without...
Three years for brutal attack on musician left with 'no escape from torture'
A man from Castleblayney Road, Crossmaglen, Armagh has been sentenced to three years imprisonment at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for a brutal assault on his...
Garda murder accused gave 'shifting accounts' of shooting, prosecution tell jury
A man accused of murdering Detective Garda Colm Horkan gave inconsistent accounts of the shooting in the immediate aftermath and during garda interviews, a...
Murder accused 'filled with a burning anger' towards gardai, prosecution say
Stephen Silver, a forty-six-year-old motorbike mechanic from Foxford, County Mayo, stands trial at the Central Criminal Court on a charge of murdering...
Rape victim's trust 'breached in a most frightening way'
A Longford man has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment, with the final eighteen months suspended, following his conviction for rape at the Central...
Regency accused told gardai he got invite from boxer Macklin, trial hears
At the Special Criminal Court in Dublin, a man accused of facilitating the murder of David Byrne during a boxing weigh-in at the Regency Hotel in February...
Taxi driver suspected of driving away Regency gunman, trial hears
At the Special Criminal Court in Dublin, gardaí presented evidence in November 2022 against three men accused of involvement in the February 2016 killing of...
Garda murder accused was not psychotic at time of shooting, psychiatrist tells trial
The Central Criminal Court trial of Stephen Silver, who denies murdering Detective Garda Colm Horkan, heard closing arguments are immencing. A prosecution...
Enoch Burke's criticism of judges 'scurrilous' and 'utterly without merit', High Court judge says
A High Court judge has firmly rejected criticisms levelled by imprisoned teacher Enoch Burke against members of the judiciary, describing such allegations as...
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