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(Pictured: Deirdre Brady. Credit: Collins)
Senior Kinahan Cartel lieutenant Declan Brady, his wife and his mistress laundered approximately €1.3m in crime cash through transfers that included mortgage payments on a Spanish holiday property, a wedding at Druid’s Glen and transfers to other gang members, the Special Criminal Court heard today.
The court heard that a bar tab and room bills for €27,000 from the wedding were paid for in cash, while both Brady and his wife declared no income to the Revenue over the period in question.
The non-jury court heard during today’s sentence hearing that Brady (55), who is known as ….read more
(Pictured: Prosecution Counsel Mr Sean Guerin SC. Credit: Collins)
Lawyers for the State have told the Special Criminal Court that gardai were entitled to use mobile phone data in their investigation of the abduction and assault on Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney.
Sean Guerin SC has continued his submissions to the three-judge, non-jury court, saying that the Court of Justice of the European Union does not prohibit the mass retention of mobile phone data. Quoting a recent Spanish case that went before the European court, Mr Guerin said the EU court had decided that the legality of retention of data was ….read more
By Sonya McLean
A man with mental health issues who walked into a garda station to alert officers to the fact that he had just tried to rape a young woman has been jailed for three years.
Oliver Kane (41), who was homeless at the time, told gardaí that when he saw the woman walking by he decided “I am going to run towards her and get as close as I can”. He said his intentions were to get her into a side area but she fought him off and managed to get away.
“God knows what would have happened,” Kane told gardaí ….read more
by Paul Neilan
A man has been sentenced this morning to life imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court for the “brutal, horrendous” murder of a 60-year-old man in Waterford three years ago.
In May of this year, Stephen Keane (31) of Coolfin Meadows, Portlaw, Co Waterford, was found guilty by unanimous jury verdict of the murder of John Lowe (60) at his Portlaw home on December 13, 2018.
Today at the Central Criminal Court, Mr Justice Paul McDermott said that the only sentence that could be imposed was life imprisonment.
Victim impact statements from three of Mr Lowe’s sisters were read into the court ….read more
A retired businessman has brought a High Court challenge against provisional findings made against him by the Child and Family’s Agency/Tusla, concerning allegations that he sexually abused his siblings more than 40 years ago.
The action has been brought by the man, who cannot be named for legal reasons and who no longer lives in Ireland and denies the allegations. As he no longer resides in the jurisdiction, he claims the CFA/Tusla cannot proceed with making findings against him nor assessing him as a potential risk to children.
He is challenging provisional findings made by the CFA/Tusla earlier this year that ….read more
