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A jury has been sworn-in for the trial of a 33-year-old man accused of attempting to murder his sister in Dublin over a year ago.
Daniel O’Connell, with an address at Rosemount, Newpark, Co Kilkenny is charged with attempting to murder Olivia O’Connell at Scholarstown Park, Scholarstown Road, Knocklyon, Dublin 16 on April 25, 2016.
Mr O’Connell was arraigned before the Central Criminal Court this morning and pleaded not guilty to the charge.
Mr Justice Patrick McCarthy swore a jury of six men and six women to hear the trial, which is due to begin tomorrow and is expected to last two days.
(Pictured: Witness Mr Conor Hogan. Credit: Collins)
A witness at a murder trial has denied that he and the deceased started the trouble that led to a fatal knife attack on a city street.
Conor Hogan from Taghmon in Wexford told defence counsel, Colman Cody SC, that the accused man, a Brazilian meat factory worker named Juraci Da Silva, “started it” when he approached them in an alleyway and wouldn’t go away.
He also said he couldn’t remember racially abusing the Brazilian or calling him a “pervert” and a “paedophile”.
Mr Da Silva (36), with an address at Park Lane Apartments in Waterford, has ….read more
A man who stabbed a homeless man leaving him seriously injured and later returned to slice the man’s face with a knife has been given a ten year sentence with 18 months suspended.
Michael Power (21) cut across his victim’s face from his ear to the angle of his mouth. The man required 48 stitches and has been left with a permanent scar.
Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard the victim, Thomas Hanrahan, suffered potentially life threatening injuries and had to have his spleen removed. He will be on life long medication.
Power, of Parslickstown Gardens, Mulhuddart, Dublin was convicted by a jury following ….read more
(Pictured: Vincent Banks. Credit: Collins)
A Dublin man who bought the car that was later used in the fatal shooting of Northern Ireland prison officer David Black will be sentenced later this month at the Special Criminal Court for IRA membership.
Mr Black, a 52-year-old father of two, was shot dead on November 1st 2012. He was driving to work at Maghaberry prison when the incident occurred.
Vincent Banks (49), of Smithfield Gate Apartments in Dublin 7, was convicted in July by the non-jury court of membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army, otherwise Oglaigh na hEireann, ….read more
(Pictured: Mr Ben Gilroy. Credit: Collins)
A High Court judge has referred what he said were “inconsistencies” concerning the income of Direct Democracy Ireland founder Ben Gilroy to the Revenue Commissioner’s Investigations Unit.
In July Mr Justice Brian McGovern found Mr Gilroy was in contempt of court, and said he was minded to impose a community service order on Mr Gilroy in lieu of three months in prison.
The matter returned before the court on Friday morning, when the judge said that a report from the Probation Service deemed Mr Gilroy was a suitable candidate to carry out 80 hours of ….read more
(Pictured: Brian Bobey. Credit: Collins)
A Dublin man is to be sentenced next week after he admitted claiming his dead mother’s pension for close to 17 years.
Father-of-two Brian Bobey (64) pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to fraudulently taking a total of €158,726 in benefits from the State between 1997 and 2013.
The court heard today that Bobey began claiming his mother’s pension after her death in May 1997 and stopped in October 2013, following an investigation by the Department of Social Welfare.
None of the money has yet been repaid by Bobey, who still lives at his late parents’ house in ….read more
