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Man caught with bullets at his home told gardai he had been out of breath and sweating when they arrived because he had been “having a wank”

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Mr Justice David Keane today refused to accept character references submitted on behalf of a man who raped and sexually abused three children over three decades ago, after hearing that the referees were not present in court.

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James 'Jake' Boles (24), who was given a wholly suspended sentence for weekly attacks on his partner, during which he dragged her by the hair, slammed her head, pushed his fist into her face and screamed abuse, will now be sent to jail after a successful appeal by the State.

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The Court of Appeal has ruled that John Waters and Gemma O'Doherty must pay the legal costs of their failed appeal against a refusal to permit them to challenge laws introduced in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Jailed teacher Enoch Burke will remain behind bars for Christmas after he again refused to obey a court order to stay away and not attempt to teach at the secondary school he is employed at.

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Enoch Burke walking free from Mountjoy Prison this evening.

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Dean Kerrie (21), who stabbed and killed an intruder who had attacked him in his home in the early hours of the morning, has been jailed for three-and-a-half years by the Central Criminal Court.

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Jozef Puska (33), who stabbed 23-year-old school teacher Ashling Murphy 11 times in the neck as she went for an afternoon run, has been found guilty of her murder by the unanimous verdict of a Central Criminal Court jury.

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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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The High Court has dismissed a legal challenge by John Waters and Gemma O'Doherty against laws introduced by the State due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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The mother of a teenager who tragically died by suicide has secured High Court orders restraining former journalist Gemma O'Doherty from harassing her and using any images of her late son.

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Alanna Quinn Idris, who was blinded in one eye as she attempted to defend her friend during an organised assault by a gang of four youths, has said she feels "kind of let down" by the three-year jail sentence imposed on one of her attackers today.

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A Zimbabwean fraudster posed as a child psychologist here for two years, receiving €172,000 in wages and expenses, and was only caught after he was put forward for a senior post with the HSE, a court has heard.

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An Irish senior executive with Twitter has secured a temporary High Court injunction preventing the social networking giant from terminating her employment. The order was secured by Sinead McSweeney, who is Twitter's Global Vice President for Public Policy.

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A violent offender who grabbed and raped a woman with a mild intellectual disability and then falsely imprisoned her in his home, raping her twice more, was given an extraordinarily lenient sentence because he can't speak English, the State has argued at the Court of Appeal today

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The mother of a teenage boy who died by suicide has brought more proceedings seeking to establish the identities of Twitter account holders alleged to have breached a High Court injunction restraining former journalist Gemma O'Doherty and others from harassing her.

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The wife of Jozef Puska and two of his brothers will go on trial next year charged with failing to disclose information to gardai investigating the murder of Ashling Murphy.

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Eoin Prizeman (35), who uploaded a video of a man raping a young boy to his own Facebook page and was caught with 276 videos of child abuse has been given a fully suspended sentence.

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A Russian teenager who had her place on a summer camp in Ireland cancelled due to the invasion of Ukraine has been awarded €1,500 for racial discrimination.

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A high-risk sex offender who raped a woman with a mild intellectual disability three times has had his jail term increased, with the Court of Appeal finding that the discount he received for being a non-English speaker in an Irish prison was "excessive".

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Over four decades after the biggest disaster of its kind in the history of the State, an inquest jury has found that all 48 of the young people who died in the Stardust nightclub fire were unlawfully killed.

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Karen Harkin (22), who was raped and sexually abused by her father when she was a child, has said she will no longer imprison herself in “feelings of guilt and shame that are not mine to carry”.

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Two Nigerian women who forced their human trafficking victims into prostitution after a "voodoo ceremony" in the first ever conviction of its type in Ireland have had their jail sentences increased by the Court of Appeal.

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An Indian man who sexually assaulted a young woman during a concert at Marlay Park while on a month-long visit to Ireland has received a fully suspended sentence. Kartikey Gupta (22) was today directed to leave Ireland within two weeks and not return for 10 years.…

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Violent convicted rapist Vadim Veste (28), who carried out a “shocking, brutal and cowardly" sex attack on an “unsuspecting woman” walking her dog in a Cork park just 18 days after he came to Ireland, has been jailed for six years.

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Alanna Quinn Idris, who was blinded in one eye during an organised attack by a gang of four youths, is a "courageous young woman" who was attempting to defend her friend at the time, defence counsel for one of the attackers has told a sentencing hearing.

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The suspended sentence handed down to James 'Jake' Boles, who dragged his partner by the hair, slammed her head, pushed his fist into her face and screamed abuse at her while subjecting her to "appalling" coercive control was too lenient, the State has told the Court of Appeal.

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Enoch Burke dramatically spurned a judge's offer to temporarily release him from jail this afternoon and has returned to Mountjoy Prison, where he has spent over 300 days over his failure to comply with an order to stay away from Wilson's Hospital School in Co Westmeath.…

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A trial judge was in error when he directed a jury to acquit a man of raping his six-year-old cousin on the basis that there could be no assault as she had touched him on his invitation, the Court of Appeal has found.

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Mr Justice Charles Meenan on Gemma O'Doherty and John Waters: "The applicants, who have no medical or scientific qualifications or expertise, relied on their own unsubstantiated views, gave speeches, engaged in empty rhetoric...

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Barrister Simeon Burke has had his conviction for a "volatile" breach of the peace following a "melee" at his brother Enoch's case in the Four Courts in Dublin last year struck out after a judge found there was insufficient evidence he had committed a criminal offence.…

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A worker who was sacked because her bosses believed a Facebook post they linked to her had criticised Ukrainian refugees for leaving the war zone and was "hate speech" has won over €10,500 for unfair dismissal.

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Nathan Kirby (22), who attacked a 76-year-old pensioner on the street, fracturing his jaw, breaking his dentures and knocking out a front tooth after they had earlier rowed about change, has been given a fully suspended sentence.

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TD Paul Murphy has been given permission to bring a High Court challenge against the refusal of the Standards in Public Office Commission to investigate a claim that Taoiseach Leo Varadkar leaked a draft pay deal agreement between the State and and the Irish Medical Organisation.

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Leeanda Farrelly (49), who acted as a “self-appointed judge, jury and executioner” when she posted a photo on Facebook identifying one of the boys who murdered 14-year-old Ana Kriégel and encouraged others to share it, has avoided jail.

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Security guard Abdul Rahman Mohammed (35) falsely imprisoned a 15-year-old girl, forced her to strip and sexually assaulted her before trying to extort €250 from her after she shoplifted from Penneys, a court has heard.

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A groundskeeper who was nearing retirement when he said his bosses began "spying" on him, told him he was "slowing down" and replaced his broken electric litter cart with a manual version that he had to push 15km per day has been awarded €15k for ageist discrimination.…

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An Algerian man who was part of a violent gang carrying out “targeted” muggings, during which expensive designer watches were ripped from victims’ wrists - including a €20,000 watch from an American tourist - has been jailed for six and a half years.

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Riad Bouchaker (50) appears in court charged with attempted murder of three children in Parnell Square stabbings

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A man has been remanded in custody after gardaí charged him with the attempted murders of two young girls and a boy in a knife attack in Dublin last month.

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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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Kathleen Kiely (32) , who was caught trying to sell €90,000 of stolen gold jewellery to a cash for gold shop, has received a fully suspended sentence.

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The teenager serving a life sentence for murdering Urantsetseg Tserendorj as she walked home from work shouted "f**k off, get me out of this court," this morning when he realised that the Court of Appeal was not going to reduce his detention term.

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Speaking outside court this afternoon, Alanna Quinn Idris told reporters that she felt her victim impact statement had been “pointless”. “I’ve to be like this now for the rest of my life and in four-and-a-half-years' time, he [Darragh Lyons] will be out."

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A judge has said it is "little wonder" that members of An Garda Síochana are leaving the force as she jailed an addict with 109 previous convictions who bit two officers after telling them he had HIV.

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The teenager who stabbed Urantsetseg Tserendorj as she walked home from work has been found guilty of her murder by majority jury verdict.

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Calistus Omoikhudu (21), who was 16 when he stabbed a teenager in the aftermath of the fatal knife attack on Azzam Raguragui five years ago, has been handed a fully suspended prison sentence.

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The teenager who murdered mother of two Urantsetseg Tserendorj as she walked home from work is to remain serving his life sentence after his conviction was today upheld by the Court of Appeal.

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Enoch Burke has told the Court of Appeal that Wilson's Hospital School directed him to refer to a student by a different name and by the pronoun 'they', which amounted to a demand he participate in transgenderism in breach of his Constitutional rights.

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A judge has given a man, who has 69 previous convictions and helped a murderer by trying to set fire to the victim's body, "a further chance" by jailing him for a year instead of reactivating the two suspended years of his sentence after he was convicted of criminal damage.

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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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A transgender woman has lost an appeal against her six-year jail sentence for sexually assaulting and threatening her former partner's son.

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Calculating “predator” Kamal Kumar Nepali (24) burglarised four properties “to find an intoxicated female to rape” before finally breaking into a house and raping a woman as she slept, the Central Criminal Court was told today.

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An appeal by John Waters and Gemma O'Doherty against a refusal to permit them to challenge the constitutionality of laws introduced in response to the Covid-19 pandemic has been dismissed.

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A repeat offender who was part of a group of “absolute thugs” who struck a student on the back of the head with a bottle has been jailed for three years, as the sentencing judge said there has to be a deterrence to stop people hanging out in groups and behaving in this manner.

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A former priest who violently sexually abused a vulnerable young woman as he drove her to the Rape Crisis Centre for counselling has been jailed after his fully suspended sentence was overturned by the Court of Appeal.

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Schoolteacher Enoch Burke, who was dismissed from his position for alleged gross misconduct, has been ordered to pay legal costs to Wilson’s Hospital School in their successful High Court action against him earlier this year.

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An arsonist who went on a Christmas crime spree, setting fire to three cars and an auto body garage, destroying the owner's livelihood, has had his three and a half-year jail sentence increased to nine years by the Court of Appeal.

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A “gender-critical” activist who demanded a public apology and damages after being refused entry to a National Women’s Council of Ireland meeting two years ago has failed in a discrimination claim.

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Reading from her own victim impact statement today, Ms Kamikaze said she was grateful that Quinn's “cudgel” struck her head and not the head of a more vulnerable person. She said Quinn “hurt himself and his movement far more than he hurt me”.

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A young man who posted a collage of intimate images of his teenage girlfriend on Snapchat to his 1,100 followers after they broke up has been jailed for six months.

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Truck driver Zahir Boudahane (50), who caused catastrophic injuries to a pedestrian after breaking a red light, making an illegal turn and dragging the victim under his vehicle, has avoided prison with a suspended sentence.

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The two-year jail sentence handed down to a robber with 92 previous convictions who rammed garda cars while travelling the wrong way down a motorway was significantly too lenient, the Court of Appeal found today as it more than trebled the offender's prison time.…

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Three men who took part in a vigilante "mob" attack on security personnel guarding a repossessed farmhouse in Roscommon, which was carried out with “calculated cruelty” designed to create “fear and terror”, have each been sentenced to 15 years in prison.

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Alan Harte (41), the career criminal who kidnapped, tortured and used a Stanley knife to cut Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney, can finally be identified after the High Court lifted an order gagging the media from naming him.

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A father who raped his special needs daughter while her mother lay dying in hospital has been jailed for seven years at the Central Criminal Court.

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Alexander Ortauf, who was 18 when he flew to Ireland to meet a 13-year-old girl while carrying abuse images and videos of her on his phone, has been given a fully suspended sentence.

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A man who was caught with over 1,700 images and 282 videos of child abuse material been told by a judge that he should be “appropriately ashamed” for his actions before being handed a fully suspended sentence.

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A teenager who killed a dog by kicking it so hard it went above its owner's head during a 'despicable' attack has been jailed for six months.

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An 18-year-old has admitted causing serious harm to Alanna Quinn Idris (pic), who was blinded in one eye during an organised attack by a gang of four youths.

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"Deviant" Mark Dolan (49), who masturbated in front of four children last year as a form of exhibitionism, has been given a fully suspended sentence. Earlier this week, the mother of one of the six-year-old victims, whose "innocence and security were stolen", had said that "a…

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"He is trying to win a soccer match by running off with the ball. The game continues with a new ball." - Mr Justice Alex Owens on Enoch Burke today.

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The fully suspended sentence handed down to a 40-year-old man who cut off an au pair’s underwear and sexually assaulted her while she slept was too lenient, the Court of Appeal found today as it sent him to jail for two and a half years.

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A GAA coach who "destroyed" a boy's life through repeated rapes, physical abuse and humiliation followed by years of harassment has had his nine-year prison sentence increased to 13 years by the Court of Appeal.

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A Polish man was the subject of a deportation order and should not have been in Ireland when he violently attacked five bus passengers, leaving one woman with PTSD, before later threatening to kill gardai.

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Shane Corrigan (53) has been jailed for trying to meet and have sex with a 13-year-old girl, who turned out to be a bot created by a vigilante group seeking to catch child groomers.

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Andrew Brennan (41), who punched and kicked his ex-partner in a “savage” attack before standing on her neck and telling her he was going to kill her has received a fully suspended prison sentence.

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A finance manager at Irish Rail says his duties were “hacked down to nothing” after he made a protected disclosure – and that he now spends most of his working week in a €121,000-a-year job reading newspapers, eating sandwiches and going for long walks.

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A transgender woman who sexually abused her step-son and threatened to break his arms and legs has appealed against the severity of her six-year sentence.

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Somali-born fugitive Abdisalan Abdulkadir Yusuf (25), who is fighting his extradition to Sweden where he was sentenced for attacking police officers during a riot over the burning of the Quran, has been refused bail by the High Court.

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A High Court judge has said that character referees for convicted criminals should have to come to court to be cross-examined.

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A homeless Afghan man who says he did not take up an offer of accommodation because his English is poor and it was never explained to him in his native language has brought a High Court challenge aimed at compelling Waterford City & County Council provide him with suitable…

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The Department of Agriculture decided to transfer a whistleblower out of its investigations unit after he made a protected disclosure about political interference in his criminal investigations into farmers and pharmacists, a lawyer has alleged at WRC.

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Calculating “predator” Kamal Kumar Nepali (24), who burglarised four properties “to find an intoxicated female to rape” before finally breaking into a house and raping a woman as she slept has been jailed for nine years.

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A Romanian national who raped a sex worker three weeks after he arrived in Ireland has been jailed for just over four years.

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A Romanian national who claimed his sexual assault of a three year old boy at a homeless hub in Dublin was "playful" has been jailed for 18 months and ordered to leave the country upon his release from prison.

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A violent and controlling offender who raped his partner the night she returned home from hospital having just miscarried their child and filmed himself carrying out a later rape to send to his friends has been jailed for 11.5 years.

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Psychic Debbie Paget has been convicted of deceiving a man out of €10,000 by telling him during a reading that his deceased father said he should give her the money.

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A man who raped his partner after subjecting her to a barrage of degrading attacks, including those where he urinated and poured bleach on her and threatened to brand her with an iron, has been tonight jailed for 11 and a half years.

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Violent criminal Rafik Ben Salah (36) broke free as he was being taken aboard an extradition flight at Dublin airport, forcing gardai and Spanish police to run him down, a court has heard.

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A tile shop employee whose boss told him "I’m sure you have your unfair dismissals case mapped out in your head... good luck with it" has won his case for unfair dismissal.

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Investigative website 'The Ditch' has secured permission to challenge a refusal by the Standards in Public Office Commission to provide them with details of donations made to the Taoiseach before they are presented to the Houses of the Oireachtas.

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An application for permission to bring a challenge against the Minister for Health’s refusal to hold a public investigation into Covid-19 related deaths in care homes should be heard in the presence of lawyers for the State, a High Court judge has directed.

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A judge has ruled that Gemma O'Doherty must appear before the High Court to answer her alleged contempt of court over an alleged refusal to obey an order not to harass the mother of a young man who died by suicide.

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Mr Justice Paul McDermott has criticised the family of two sisters who were raped and sexually abused by their older brother, after members ostracised the victims and tried to prevent them from coming forward about the abuse in order to protect the family name.

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A teenager who filmed a 12-year-old girl performing oral sex on him while his friends took photographs has lost an appeal against the severity of his four-year sentence.

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After the sentence was handed down, the victim spoke out in court and said “there is no justice in it”. “How dare he stand there smirking! Where is the justice in that? How do I live a normal life after what he did?” she asked.

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Banned, serial offending ex-GAA star Kevin McMenamin (42), who ran a red light and drove over a cyclist, breaking her pelvis and causing severe leg trauma for which she was placed into an induced coma, has been jailed for 21 months.

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At a hearing in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court today, Judge Martin Nolan said it would be unjust to imprison Conlon as he was not the “prime mover” of this assault.

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The defendant's lawyers had asked Mr Justice Keane to receive three character references on his behalf but the judge said he would only allow references if the people who had written the letters were present in court to take the stand.

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A hotel group owned by Supermac’s founder Pat McDonagh and his wife has been ordered to pay a Traveller family €22,000 in compensation for refusing them emergency homeless accommodation under a rule demanding guests produce a credit card.

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