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(Pictured: Defendant Mr Peter Herbert speaking outside court today. Credit: Collins)
Charges against ten of the 11 Jobstown water charge have been formally dropped.
Cheers broke out and air horns sounded in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court today after Judge Melanie Greally formally discharged all but one of the remaining Jobstown accused.
Prosecution barrister Sean Gillane SC told the court the DPP had requested that a nolle prosequi be entered in respect of all of the charges against the remaining accused, except for one count of criminal damage against one accused, Dylan Collins.
Mr Gillane said the case against Mr Collins (22) of Bawnlea ….read more
(Pictured: Garda Keith Harrison and Ms Marisa Simms. Credit: Collins)
By Gerard Cunningham
The partner of a garda who says he was targeted for making a protected disclosure has told the Charleton tribunal that Garda Keith Harrison did not want “the fame of being a whistleblower”.
Mark Harty SC, representing Garda Keith Harrison, asked Ms Marisa Simms what she made of suggestions that her partner Garda Harrison was motivated by “attention seeking, jumping on the bandwagon and looking for fame in making a protected disclosure in May 2014″.
Ms Simms said anyone who would suggest this was “not in possession of the full facts”.
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The victim of a child rapist has told a court how the man subjected him to 12 years of sexual and mental torture.
The Mayo resident pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to 20 counts of oral and anal rape of the boy between August 1997 and and April 2008.
He also pleaded guilty to eleven counts of raping his own daughter. These attacks began in mid 2007 and continued regularly for two years.
The man cannot be named to protect the identity of the victims. The court heard that rumours in the local rural community have resulted in his complete ostracism ….read more
(Pictured: Tiarnan O’Mahoney. Credit: Collins)
A jury has been sworn in the trial of a former Anglo Irish Bank executive on conspiracy charges.
Tiarnan O’Mahoney (58), who was formerly Chief Operations Officer at Anglo Irish Bank, has pleaded not guilty to a charge that he conspired to destroy, mutilate or falsify books and documents affecting or relating to the property or affairs of Anglo Irish Bank Corp PLC.
The offence is alleged to have occurred between March 25, 2003 and December 31, 2004 and relates to a number of named accounts.
Mr O’Mahoney, a business consultant, with an address at Glen Pines, Enniskerry, Co. ….read more
A High Court judge is to deliver a decision on whether Frederick “Freddie” Thompson, who is accused of murdering David Douglas, is to be granted bail.
Mr Thompson (36), with an address at Loreto Road, Maryland, Dublin 8, is charged with the murder of Mr Douglas (55) at Bridgefoot Street in Dublin on July 1st, 2016.
The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) was previously granted an order to have Mr Thompson face trial at the Special Criminal Court.
The DPP can direct an accused face trial in the non-jury court if it deems “the ordinary courts are inadequate for effective administration of justice”.
Mr ….read more
The Minister for Justice has again refused to revoke a deportation order against an Algerian man with alleged links to Islamic terrorism, the High Court has heard.
Last July the Supreme Court unanimously quashed the Minister for Justice’s refusal to revoke the deportation order issued in December 2016.
The Supreme Court also remitted the man’s case back to the Minister for further reconsideration.
The Supreme Court’s ruling came after the man appealed an earlier High Court order which found the Minister’s decision that there were no substantial grounds to find that the man would be at real risk of ill treatment ….read more
