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Cavan · June 14, 2021

Mass data retention is not unlawful, State argue in Lunney trial

At the Special Criminal Court in Dublin, counsel for the State submitted that gardaí were lawfully entitled to access mobile phone data during their...

Rathmullan · June 11, 2021

Keane Mulready-Woods murder accused to stand trial at non-jury court

Two men charged with the murder of a teenager in County Louth will stand trial at the Special Criminal Court, a non-jury venue, following an application by...

Cavan · June 11, 2021

Gardai breaking law for 'years and years' by seizing phone data, Lunney trial told

Four men have pleaded not guilty at the Special Criminal Court to charges of falsely imprisoning and causing serious harm to Kevin Lunney, a director of Quinn...

Westport · June 10, 2021

Husband of Valerie French Kilroy to strand trial for murder

A man accused of murdering his wife at their home in County Mayo will stand trial at the Central Criminal Court in October. James Kilroy, aged 47 and from...

Longford · June 10, 2021

Date set for man accused of murdering boxing champ

A trial date has been set at the Central Criminal Court for a British man accused of murdering an Irish boxing champion. Logan Jackson, aged 31 and with an...

Donegal · June 10, 2021

Man appeals IRA conviction after threat to shoot accident victim

A man from Dublin has appealed his conviction for membership of an unlawful organisation after a trial in the Special Criminal Court in 2018. Ciaran Maguire,...

Cavan · June 10, 2021

'Day of reckoning': defence in Lunney trial criticises government inaction of data law

A barrister representing one of three men charged with the abduction and assault of Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney has criticised the...

Cavan · June 09, 2021

Lunney investigation phone data obtained with invalid warrants, defence lawyers argue

At the Special Criminal Court in Dublin on 9 June 2021, defence counsel challenged the validity of search warrants used to obtain mobile phone data in the...

Cavan · June 09, 2021

Lawyers to argue admissibility of phone evidence in Lunney trial

The Special Criminal Court heard submissions on the admissibility of mobile phone evidence in the trial of four men accused of falsely imprisoning and causing...

Cavan · June 08, 2021

Lunney accused challenge admissibility of phone evidence

Four men charged in connection with the abduction and serious assault of Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney have mounted a challenge to the...

Cavan · June 04, 2021

Lunney accused told gardai: 'I know why you're here'

At the Special Criminal Court in Dublin, gardaí gave evidence in the trial of four men charged in connection with the abduction and assault of Kevin Lunney in...

Cavan · June 03, 2021

Kevin Lunney describes dragging himself along dark country road, fearing nobody would come to help

A director of Quinn Industrial Holdings told the Special Criminal Court how he dragged himself along a dark country road after being subjected to serious...

Convoy · June 03, 2021

Lee Canavan jailed for life for role in 'Daithi Douglas' murder

Lee Canavan, a thirty-two-year-old Dublin man, has been sentenced to life imprisonment by the Special Criminal Court for his role in the murder of David...

Cavan · June 03, 2021

Special Criminal Court rejects second jurisdiction application in two days

Two men charged with murder will proceed to trial at the Special Criminal Court following the rejection of a jurisdictional challenge this morning. Kenneth...

Cavan · June 02, 2021

Kevin Lunney told to resign before attackers threatened to kill him, trial hears

A man was forcibly removed from his car, imprisoned in a shipping container and subjected to serious violence during an assault lasting approximately 40...

Aughavas · June 02, 2021

Psychic scammer loses appeal against €1.6m money laundering conviction

A man from Aughavas, County Leitrim, has lost his appeal against conviction for money laundering and related offences at the Court of Appeal. Simon Gold, aged...

Cavan · June 01, 2021

Special Criminal Court rejects argument that it has no jurisdiction to hear Lunney trial

The Special Criminal Court has rejected jurisdictional challenges to its authority to try four men accused of assaulting Quinn Industrial Holdings director...

Cavan · May 31, 2021

Kevin Lunney accused to make 'jurisdictional' application

The Special Criminal Court has adjourned proceedings in the trial of four men charged with the false imprisonment of Quinn Industrial Holdings executive Kevin...

Convoy · May 28, 2021

Businessman's memory 'riddled with problems', false imprisonment trial told

Two men have pleaded not guilty at the Special Criminal Court to charges of falsely imprisoning a Mayo businessman at a location in County Louth in December...

Longford · May 27, 2021

Gangland murder conspirator can be named

A Dublin man has been permitted to be named following a ruling at the Central Criminal Court regarding his admission to conspiracy to murder. Cailean...

Mayo · May 27, 2021

Accused withdrew from plan to extort businessman, defence say

At the Special Criminal Court, closing arguments concluded in the trial of two men charged with offences arising from an assault on a Mayo businessman in...

Longford · May 24, 2021

Man admits trying to murder slain gangster Wayne Whelan

A man from Longford has admitted attempting to murder gangland figure Wayne Whelan in a shooting in west Dublin in September 2019. Wayne Ryan, aged 41 and...

Cavan · May 21, 2021

Kevin Lunney abduction trial to proceed at month end

Four men stand charged with the false imprisonment and assault of Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney at Ballinagh, County Cavan on 17 September...

Convoy · May 20, 2021

Lee Canavan guilty of murdering David 'Daithí' Douglas

Lee Canavan has been convicted of the murder of David Douglas following a trial at the Special Criminal Court in May 2021. Douglas, aged 55, was shot six...

Ballymote · May 19, 2021

Husband guilty of murder for strangling wife who wanted her own life

A man from Sligo has been found guilty of murdering his wife at the Central Criminal Court. Rafal Karaczyn, aged thirty-five, of Crozon Park in Sligo, pleaded...

Sligo · May 19, 2021

Murderer secretly filmed wife in shower

A man from Sligo has been convicted of murder at the Central Criminal Court following the unlawful killing of his wife in April 2018. The court heard that...

Donegal · May 19, 2021

Nine years for 'horrendous' rape of woman in her own home

A man has been sentenced to nine years in prison by the Central Criminal Court for the rape of a woman in her Donegal home on August 9, 2017. The 38-year-old...

Sligo · May 18, 2021

Jury deliberating in trial of husband accused of murdering wife

A jury at the Central Criminal Court is continuing deliberations in the trial of a Sligo man charged with murder. Rafal Karaczyn, aged 35, of Crozon Park,...

Crossmolina · May 18, 2021

Irish sex offender told fake profile he preferred 'younger girls but I guess you're okay'

A man arrested in Crossmolina, County Mayo, is at the centre of extradition proceedings in the High Court following his alleged breach of probation conditions...

Cavan · May 17, 2021

Man who arranged to meet dissident on day he was murdered is found guilty of disrupting investigation

Ray Kennedy, aged 41, from Blanchardstown in Dublin, has been convicted at the Special Criminal Court of perverting the course of justice in connection with...

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