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(Pictured: Ms Sandra Higgins. Credit: Collins)
A date has been set for the retrial of a child-minder accused of causing serious harm to a baby.
Sandra Higgins (36), of The Beeches, Drumgola Wood, Cavan town, Co Cavan denies a charge of intentionally or recklessly causing serious harm to the baby at her home on March 28 2012.
Judge Karen O’Connor at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court set a new trial date of January 15, 2018.
The jury in Ms Higgin’s trial earlier this year were discharged after a juror accessed information on the internet. The jury in an earlier trial in the case in 2015 ….read more
(Pictured: Judge Melanie Greally. Credit: Collins)
A judge has said that existing contempt of court laws are hopelessly inadequate in curbing social media commentary which has the potential to interfere with ongoing trials.
Judge Melanie Greally also said that there is no right for anyone to express themselves over social media in relation to an ongoing trial.
She was speaking during a hearing at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court today in advance of the upcoming trial of six people charged with offences arising from a water charges protest in Jobstown, Tallaght. The trial is scheduled to start on October 3.
Former Tanaiste Joan Burton and ….read more
(Pictured: Jonathan Doran. Credit: Collins)
A barber convicted of violent disorder during a row outside a Dublin city nightclub four years ago has been given a suspended sentence and ordered to pay €6,000.
The court heard Jonathan Doran (26) was acting out of “misguided loyalty” after mistakenly believing his friend, Republic of Ireland soccer player Jeff Hendrick, had been struck.
The injured party, Darren McDermott, said he was pulled out of a taxi following a verbal row at Krystal nightclub. He said he was chased down a laneway by a number of men and assaulted.
Doran was acquitted by direction of the trial judge ….read more
A Cork man accused of IRA membership has been refused bail by the High Court today.
Sean Walsh (50) of St John’s Well, Fair Hill, Co Cork is charged with membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army, otherwise Oglaigh Na hÉireann, otherwise the IRA on December 14th, 2016.
Mr Walsh had sought bail in the High Court today. However, the State objected to the application.
At today’s bail hearing, Detective Sergeant Patrick Murphy from Anglesea Street Garda Station in Cork told Mr Ronan Prendergast BL, for the State, that he was objecting to bail because of the
“seriousness” of the ….read more
(Pictured: Mohamed Okda. Credit: Collins)
A woman who was raped by a man who purported to come to her aid after she got lost on a night out in Dublin says she is now a “broken person”.
In a victim impact statement read out in the Central Criminal Court today, the married mother described how she suffers from panic attacks and depression since she was raped by Mohamed Okda while on a night out in Dublin city in 2014.
“My trusting nature and heart has been broken,” she said. “I am now a broken person…My belief that people are essentially good and my ….read more
(Pictured: Detective Eve Doherty. Credit: Collins)
The jury in the trial of a garda detective accused of harassing a State solicitor have heard closing speeches.
Eve Doherty (49), a detective sergeant based in Dublin, denies harassing Elizabeth Howlin between September 2011 and March 2013 and making false statements on two dates in March 2013 claiming Ms Howlin was perverting the course of justice.
At the time Ms Howlin worked with the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) where she was involved in deciding whether or not to direct prosecutions in criminal cases.
Over an 18 month period letters and emails were sent to Ms ….read more
