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A High Court judge has urged parties involved in a row over damage allegedly caused to houses located near the site of the new National children’s Hospital in Dublin to consider going to mediation.
The comments were made by Mr Justice Paul Gilligan after proceedings taken by several residents from the O’Reilly Avenue, Ceannt Fort, Mount Brown areas against the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and BAM Civil Limited, the firm which is building the hospital, came before the court.
The residents, who live close to St. James Hospital in Dublin where the new €1bn children’s hospital is being constructed, claim ….read more
A “vulnerable” burglar who stole over €3,000 in perfume and aftershave from a Boots Chemist after a car was reversed into the front doors has been jailed for two years.
Patrick Stokes (36) of Hill Street, Dublin pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to burglary and criminal damage at Boots chemist, Drimnagh Road on January 14, 2017.
He has 50 previous convictions including five for burglary and nine for theft offences.
Garda David Hickey told Fiona McGowan BL, prosecuting, that he responded to an alarm call at the premises at 5.20am. He found the front door smashed and the store full of ….read more
(Pictured: Garda Eve Doherty. Credit: Collins)
By Declan Brennan
The trial of a detective for allegedly harassing a State solicitor has heard that a man who admitted ringing the solicitor’s personal mobile is the subject of three garda investigations.
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 ….read more
By Brion Hoban
A Galway man who raped his daughter and threatened to kill her mother with a shotgun if she told anyone about the incident will be sentenced next November.
The man (65), who cannot be identified to protect his daughter’s anonymity, had denied a single count of rape and six counts of sexual assault occurring on dates between August 1991 and August 1993.
After a trial at the Central Criminal Court a jury returned unanimous guilty verdicts on all charges. The jury had spent just under three hours in deliberations.
The offences occurred in the family home the woman shared with her ….read more
A criminal who head butted a prison officer after complaining his new cell did not have a television has had his time in jail extended by 18 months.
Glen Conroy (29) is currently serving a six year sentence for aggravated burglary and had been due for release in January 2018. This new sentence will begin then.
He has 57 previous convictions including seven for assault causing harm, five for burglary, three for robbery, one for false imprisonment as well as public order and road traffic offences.
Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard Conroy has spent just two and a half years in total at ….read more
The High Court has ordered the extradition of a 77-year-old retired teacher to the UK to face a single charge of indecently assaulting a student forty years ago.
The UK citizen, with an address in Co Donegal but who cannot be identified for legal reasons, is alleged to have indecently assaulted a ten-year-old student on one occasion when they were alone in a school staff room in the UK in June or July 1978. The offence carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison.
Authorities in the UK issued a European Arrest Warrant (EAW) in respect of the man which was ….read more
