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A witness to a fatal stabbing has told a murder trial that blood was coming from the deceased man “like water coming from a hose”.
Georgina Roche told prosecuting counsel, John O’Kelly SC, that she tried to help 28-year-old James Banville after seeing a fight that led to him being stabbed. At first she thought the men were just boxing, but when Mr Banville lifted up his top she saw the wound. She tried asking him questions to keep him awake but he didn’t respond and his eyes rolled back in his head.
He held his friend’s hand for a few ….read more
A trial date has been fixed at the non-jury Special Criminal Court for a man accused of murdering Noel ‘Duck Egg’ Kirwan.
Jason Keating (26), of Lower Main Street, Rush, Co Dublin is charged with the murder of Noel Kirwan (62) outside his house at St Ronan’s Drive, Clondalkin, Dublin 22 on December 22nd, 2016.
Mr Justice Tony Hunt, presiding at the three-judge court, fixed a date of October 1st next year for Mr Keating’s trial.
The accused man was remanded in custody until that date. His case was listed for mention again on December 21st.
(Pictured: Chief Superintendent Terry McGinn. Credit: Collins)
By Gerard Cunningham
A senior garda who referred a whistle-blower to the Garda Ombudsman over a domestic dispute complaint has told the Charleton Tribunal that she has no malice towards the officer.
In October 2013 Marissa Simms, the partner of garda whistle-blower Keith Harrison, made a statement to gardaí alleged that Garda Harrison had threatened that he would “burn her” and “bury her”. Ms Simms later withdrew the statement but not before it was referred to GSOC.
Garda Harrison has testified that he believed the referral to GSOC was motivated by malice towards him.
In the current module, ….read more
An Estonian man accused of conspiring to murder a man in Northern Ireland will be charged and tried before the non-jury Special Criminal Court.
In April, at Dublin District Court, Imre Arakas (58), with an address at Sopruse, Tallinn, Estonia, was charged with conspiring with others not before the courts to murder James Gately in Northern Ireland between April 3rd and April 4th.
The offence is under Section 71 of the Criminal Justice Act 2006.
At today’s brief hearing, State solicitor Michael O’Donovan said the DPP was applying for an order from the court to have Mr Arakas charged and tried ….read more
(Pictured: Victim’s daughter Jade Maguire leaving court today. Credit: Collins)
A Westmeath man faces a life sentence after being convicted of murdering the mother of his children by ‘strangling the life out of her’ two months after she had left him.
Danny Keena of Empor, Ballynacargy was on trial at the Central Criminal Court charged with the murder of 43-year-old Brigid Maguire on November 14, 2015; she and their two children had left him that September.
The 55-year-old farmer had pleaded not guilty to murder, but guilty to her manslaughter at her new home on Main Street, Ballynacargy. He claimed she had provoked ….read more
A man found guilty of raping a woman he met after she became lost on a night out in Dublin city does not accept the jury verdict, a court has heard.
Egyptian national Mohamed Okda (30) was staying in a friend’s flat in the city in February 2014 when he met the woman in an upset state.
Okda, formerly of Coolfin, Rathdowney, Co Laois had pleaded not guilty to two counts of raping the woman and one count of sexual assault at a flat in Dublin city centre on a date on February 9, 2014.
Last July, after a seven day trial at ….read more
