Courts News Ireland (2024)

24/10/2023

A truck driver who lost his job after relieving his bowels in a warehouse loading bay, in what he said was a case of “urgent” diarrhoea, has lost a discrimination claim against his former employer.

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02/10/2023

A 72-year-old “voracious sexual predator” who masqueraded as a “kindly uncle” while ra**ng and sexually abusing three of his nieces for a decade has been jailed for 18 years.

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13/07/2023

A married carer fell for an online romance fraud and stole €122,000 from a vulnerable elderly couple during the pandemic before converting it into crypto and sending it to a fictitious US soldier, a court has heard.

Angela Manning (59) told her victims: “I have bled you dry; there is nothing left”.

The court also heard that the deeds of Manning's family home are now in the possession of the victims, while her husband has had to return to work after she also took his retirement savings.

Manning of Kingston Walk, Ballinteer, Dublin 22, pleaded guilty to seven sample charges of stealing money from an elderly couple via ATM withdrawals in Dublin between April 2019 and September 2021.

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14/06/2023

A postal clerk who was offended by a joke about a Gilbert O’Sullivan song on the radio being “her vintage” has been awarded €1,000 for ageist discrimination.

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03/05/2023

Former GP Ronan Keogan (51) has received a fully-suspended sentence having been caught distributing child abuse material.

Keogan was caught with the material after a woman he'd met on the affairs website Ashley Madison complained to gardai over images he sent her.

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28/04/2023

"All of those young, beautiful smiling people suspended in time for decades. Waiting for validation and answers. For justice and accountability. We want our loved ones to rest in peace with dignity. They all deserve that." - Angela Shepard, a niece of victim Michael Farrell, at the Stardust Inquest today.

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29/03/2023

A man who was caught with thousands of images and hundreds of videos of child abuse after a tip-off from a US child protection organisation has been given a fully suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

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27/03/2023

A man who was caught with child abuse images as gardaí were investigating him for sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl in Penneys has been handed a fully suspended prison sentence.

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24/03/2023

Graham Dwyer has failed in his bid to overturn his conviction for murdering vulnerable child care worker Elaine O’Hara, almost eight years to the day he was found guilty by unanimous jury verdict.

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23/03/2023

Darragh Lyons (19), who took part in a “savage attack” by a gang of youths that left teenager Alanna Quinn Idris blind in one eye, has been sentenced to four and a half years in prison.

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22/03/2023

18-year-old Alanna Quinn Idris, who was blinded in one eye in an organised attack by a gang of four youths, has told a court that her confidence and her chance of having a normal life have been destroyed.

“Life as I knew it came to an abrupt end. I will never be the woman I was supposed to be – she died that night. Sometimes I wish I never woke up from when I was hit with that object,” she said.

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20/03/2023

British entertainer John Bishop terminated all staff contracts at an Irish-based hearing tech firm while "he was attending the Glastonbury music festival", a shareholder in the company has claimed before the High Court.

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16/03/2023

Enoch Burke's averment that he has "at all times conducted himself in a proper manner" during court proceedings against Wilson's Hospital school is "self-praise that beggars belief", Mr Justice Brian O'Moore has found.

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14/03/2023

A date has been set for solicitor Ammi Burke’s High Court challenge to a rejection by the Workplace Relations Commission of her unfair dismissal claim against leading law firm Arthur Cox.

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13/03/2023

A man who left his pregnant partner unconscious and his infant child covered in her mother's blood during an attack in which he also threw his 12-year-old son against a metal bed frame, has been handed a prison sentence of two years and four months.

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10/03/2023

Former Priest Joe Dunne (81), who sexually abused a young woman as he drove her to the R**e Crisis Centre for counselling, has avoided a jail term because he is the sole carer for his elderly sister.

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08/03/2023

The former Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu says she did not discriminate against prominent atheism campaigner John Hamill – and would not discriminate against any member of his group, the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

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07/03/2023

It is the State's contention that an accused's back tattoo amounts to a "pictorial admission" of his involvement in the robbery of a Dundalk credit union during which Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe was shot dead, the Special Criminal Court has heard.

The tattoo depicts four males with hats, including one holding a long barrelled firearm, along with a woman wearing a balaclava with a gun to her lips, a large BMW car, a pistol, rounds of ammunition and wads of money.

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06/03/2023

Three men with a combined 78 previous convictions between them will face no jail time for taking part in a "terrifying" daytime attack on a busy Dublin Road by an armed group wearing balaclavas.

Two of the defendants were on bail at the time while an innocent member of the public had their car written off because of the attack, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard today.

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03/03/2023

A father of seven who subjected his pregnant former partner to a “merciless and prolonged” attack, which included whipping her with an electric cord, has been handed a 20-month prison sentence.

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01/03/2023

A violent criminal who subjected his neighbour to a “prolonged and terrifying” attack - during which she was beaten, stripped to her underwear, repeatedly made to vomit and told she would be killed - has been jailed for eight and a half years.

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28/02/2023

A security guard allegedly attacked during the Strokestown eviction case has told a jury that he was forced to eat the faeces of a guard dog that had been severely injured and lost control of its bowels.

David Lawlor (43) of Bailis Downs, Navan, Co. Meath, Martin O'Toole (58) of Stripe, Irishtown, Claremorris, Co Mayo, Paul Beirne (56) of Croghan, Boyle, Co Roscommon and Patrick Sweeney (44) of High Cairn, Ramelton, Co Donegal, (all pictured) have pleaded not guilty to a total of 53 charges.

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28/02/2023

The owner of Ashton Dog Pound David Stone (65), who allowed a euthanasia drug to be kept unlawfully and administered incorrectly to two dogs on his premises, has been fined €30,000.

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24/02/2023

“Why was this allowed to go on for 30 years?’

- victim Damien Hetherington (pictured) today after the jailing of serial child abuser and former Terenure College rugby coach John McClean.

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23/02/2023

"In 2019 my first child was born. An amazing boy whose innocence and vulnerability tore down my defiant defences.

It seems I didn’t know I had gold in my pockets until I was turned upside down. Something profound happened; I faced my past in Terenure College, I stopped running.

I took my power back and remembered you in all your poisoned glory.

I so admired the small boy who resisted you, I saw his shining face again, I thanked him for saving me."

-Paul Kennedy (pictured), survivor of abuse at the hands of former Terence College Rugby Coach and teacher John McClean, in his victim impact statement today.

16/02/2023

A burglar who grabbed a homeowner in the groin during a struggle ended up hanging upside down from the blinds of a bedroom window after he was beaten with a golf club as he tried to escape, a court has heard.

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14/02/2023

Robert Ashmore (54), caught through a sting operation by online vigilante groups 'Child Protection Awareness' and 'Justice Reborn', who posed as a 13-year-old in WhatsApp conversations, has been jailed for 16 months.

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13/02/2023

A woman and her partner subjected her five-year-old daughter and three-year-old son to "the most unimaginable"abuse", with repeated instances of r**e and an attack that included "gluing" the girl to a chair, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

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10/02/2023

Siblings Enoch and Ammi Burke were this afternoon physically removed from a courtroom by members of An Garda Siochana for interrupting proceedings before a High Court judge.

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08/02/2023

Josh Conlon (19) has been given a fully-suspended sentence for his role in a two-hour attack, during which a woman was tied up, beaten with a broom handle and had boiling water poured over her.

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07/02/2023

A knife-wielding burglar who broke into a woman's home and threatened to kill her turned out to be her Tinder date from the day before, a court has heard.

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07/02/2023

Violent criminal Dean Paget (34), who told his partner that he would "rip" their unborn daughter from her as he punched and kicked her in the stomach, has been jailed for 13 years by a judge at the Central Criminal Court.

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07/02/2023

The publishing group behind the parenting website EveryMum has been ordered to pay a sales executive €32.5k for maternity-related discrimination.

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03/02/2023

Meath County Council has told the High Court that a couple's last minute legal action aimed at preventing the demolition of a large house they built without planning permission amounts to "an abuse of process".

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02/02/2023

A criminal with 41 previous convictions who repeatedly defiled a teenage girl has had his six-year jail sentence halved on appeal.

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01/02/2023

A cancer sufferer who was growing cannabis at home for pain relief has told a judge she cannot completely quit using the drug.

Judge Martina Baxter told the defendant today that she appreciated her situation but “in the eyes of the law, you are still committing an offence” every time she used the drug.

The defendant told gardaí that she had undergone chemotherapy but this hadn't worked and that “cannabis is the only thing that works.”

She was using about five grammes of the plant every evening and said she never sold it on and “never will”.

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30/01/2023

Violent criminal Dean Paget (36) attempted to murder his partner when she was 32 weeks pregnant and shouted "I'll rip her out of you" as he kicked her repeatedly in the stomach, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

Paget pleaded guilty to attempting to murder his former partner and accepted the facts in relation to a charge of intentionally ending the life of a foetus - his own unborn child.

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28/01/2023

Scottish footballers Liam Callaghan (27) and Craig Johnston (27) who carried out a "shameful attack" on a night out in Dublin - during which the victim's eye socket was broken and his head ‘bounced’ off the ground - have walked from court after being handed suspended sentences.

26/01/2023

The High Court has ruled that teacher Enoch Burke will face being fined €700 for every day he refuses to comply with a court order to stay away from Wilson's Hospital secondary school.

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23/01/2023

A professional poker dealer who betrayed his employers by acting as the inside man in the robbery of €50,000 from a casino where he worked, has walked from court after being handed a fully suspended prison sentence.

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