Murder accused told gardai he stabbed man 'in own defence'
A murder trial at the Central Criminal Court concluded in March 2023 following the death of a 24-year-old man in Swinford, County Mayo on 16 November 2020....
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Strokestown eviction farm owner also had 170 acres, 'one or two' properties, trial hears
At Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, a trial has heard that Michael McGann, whose Roscommon farm at Falsk was repossessed by KBC Bank in December 2018, held...
Worker 'caught in middle' of funding shortfall caused by government department
A worker employed at a County Mayo job centre for disabled adults has secured a second Workplace Relations Commission ruling in her favour regarding unpaid...
Security guard expected to see 'charred bodies' after alleged Strokestown attack
A security guard has testified at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court in the trial of four men accused of an assault on a rural Roscommon property in December 2018....
Mortgage lender concedes in Supreme Court appeal over repossession order
A woman from Sligo has succeeded in her Supreme Court appeal against a mortgage lender's attempt to restore repossession proceedings on her family home....
Enoch Burke in 'self-praise that beggars belief' judge finds, as school can enforce fine from next week
The High Court has ordered Enoch Burke to pay Wilson's Hospital School's legal costs arising from two pre-trial motions in their ongoing dispute. Mr Justice...
Lunney abductor Harte claims conviction and 30-year sentence should be set aside
Alan Harte, convicted of the false imprisonment and serious assault of Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney at a yard in Ballinagh, County Cavan in...
Valerie French Kilroy murder trial hits 'bump in the road'
At the Central Criminal Court, the murder trial of James Kilroy, aged 49, of Kilbree Lower, Westport, Co Mayo, has been adjourned until Monday afternoon...
Bus driver avoids jail for careless driving causing death of cyclist
A man has received a fully suspended one-year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for careless driving causing the death of a cyclist. Mariusz...
Jury finds Stephen Silver guilty of capital murder after two trials
A jury at the Central Criminal Court has found Stephen Silver guilty of capital murder following a retrial. Silver, aged 46, a mechanic from Aughaward,...
'Learned Impunity': the trial of garda murderer Stephen Silver
A jury at the Central Criminal Court has convicted Stephen Silver of the capital murder of Garda Colm Horkan in Castlerea, County Roscommon, on 17 June 2020....
Couple secure injunction preventing receiver's proposed sale of house
A businessman and his wife from Lisheenbrawn, Swinford, County Mayo, have obtained a temporary High Court injunction preventing a mortgage company and a...
Airbnb guest was staying at Valerie French Kilroy's home when she was killed by husband, trial hears
A man charged with murdering his wife in County Mayo has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity at the Central Criminal Court. James Kilroy, aged 49, of...
Security guard tells trial of being attacked at Strokestown repossession farm
A security guard giving evidence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has described being attacked during a repossession at a rural property near Strokestown,...
Jury to continue deliberating in Garda Colm Horkan murder trial
The jury in the Central Criminal Court trial of Stephen Silver continues deliberations in the case concerning the death of Garda Colm Horkan at Castlerea,...
Ammi Burke gets date for High Court challenge against Arthur Cox dismissal
A solicitor from Castlebar, Co Mayo is pursuing a High Court judicial review challenge against a Workplace Relations Commission decision rejecting her unfair...
Department store ordered to pay worker discriminated against due to post natal depression
The Workplace Relations Commission has ordered Edward Slevin & Co Ltd, trading as Slevins Department Store in Ballyshannon, County Donegal, to pay €5,500 in...
'This is not trial by expert, this is trial by jury': garda murder trial jury begin deliberations
A jury at the Central Criminal Court has begun deliberations in the trial of Stephen Silver, charged with the murder of Garda Colm Horkan at Castlerea, County...
'Like something out of the wild west', defence say of Strokestown eviction
Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard testimony on 13 March 2023 in the trial of four men charged in connection with an attack on a repossessed farm near...
Notorious criminal Gerard Mackin admits to money laundering for crime gang
Gerard Mackin, aged 40 and originally from west Belfast, pleaded guilty before the Special Criminal Court to money laundering offences following his...
Mum died of strangulation, blunt force trauma and stab wound to neck, pathologist tells trial
At the Central Criminal Court in Dublin, the Chief State Pathologist provided evidence that a woman from Westport, County Mayo, died from ligature...
'No rational basis or motivation' for shooting garda, defence tell murder trial jury
At the Central Criminal Court, defence counsel Dominic McGinn SC argued during closing submissions that Stephen Silver's shooting of Garda Colm Horkan at...
Murder accused said he 'waited in long grass' for wife before 'dark and frenzied attack'
At the Central Criminal Court, a murder trial heard that James Kilroy, aged 49, a park ranger from Kilbree Lower, Westport, County Mayo, described to gardai...
Man admits to directing criminal gang
A 37-year-old man from Sligo has pleaded guilty at the Special Criminal Court to directing a criminal organisation. Barry Young, with an address in Cranmore,...
Murder accused had 'seething resentment' toward gardai, prosecution tell jury
Stephen Silver, aged 46 of Aughavard, Foxford, County Mayo, stands trial at the Central Criminal Court on a charge of murdering Garda Colm Horkan at...
Child of mother killed in rural home requested coco pops after gardai found body, trial hears
A murder trial at the Central Criminal Court has heard evidence concerning the death of Valerie French Kilroy, a forty-one-year-old occupational therapist,...
Valerie French Kilroy trial: accused described to gardai how he killed wife
James Kilroy, aged 49, a park ranger from Kilbree Lower near Westport in County Mayo, stands trial at the Central Criminal Court charged with murdering his...
Garda murder accused 'an unreliable historian' of his mental health, psychiatrist tells trial
A consultant psychiatrist has given evidence at the Central Criminal Court in the trial of Stephen Silver, who is charged with murdering Garda Colm Horkan at...
Valerie French Kilroy's husband found naked in field after killing her, jury hears
A 49-year-old man has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to the murder of his wife at their rural home near Westport, County Mayo, the Central Criminal...
Jail for man who abducted daughter, prompting nationwide alert
A 33-year-old man from County Mayo has been sentenced to four and a half years imprisonment following his abduction of his two-year-old daughter from a health...
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