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A young Dublin father who “abused” the chances given to him in the courts by repeat drug offending has been jailed for three and a half years.
Daniel O’Neill (21) had previously received a five-year suspended sentence for possessing over €100,000 of heroin for sale or supply while he was still a teenager.
This 2014 Dublin Circuit Criminal Court sentence was suspended in full for five years, but about 12 months later, a plain-clothes garda caught O’Neill in the city centre with €1,320 of heroin.
Detective Garda Eoin Kane said O’Neill admitted he was selling the drug and told gardaí: “Yeah it’s heroin, ….read more
(Pictured: Mr Vincent Banks. Credit: Collins)
Judges at the Special Criminal Court trial of a Dublin man accused of IRA membership will deliver a verdict next Monday.
The prosecution have alleged that Vincent Banks (47) purchased the car that was later used in the fatal shooting of Northern Irish prison officer David Black.
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.
Mr Banks, of Smithfield Gate Apartments in Dublin 7, has pleaded not guilty to membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish Republican ….read more
A man who claimed to be “overwhelmed by the enormity” of being sent to jail for six years for abusing his nephew is seeking an extension of time to appeal his sentence, after lodging an appeal 17 months late.
The 43-year-old man, who details cannot be published to protect the victim’s identity, pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to the rape and sexual assault of his younger nephew in Limerick over four years in the 1990s. The man was aged 17 while the victim was aged 12 when the abuse commenced, the Court of Appeal heard.
He was sentenced to eight ….read more
A former security guard who imported more than 41,000 ecstasy tablets with a street value of over €413,000 has been jailed for three years.
John Coonan (44) told gardaí he carried out the offence after he was approached by men who threatened to hurt his fiancée if he didn’t do what they said.
Coonan, with an address in Weston Road, Churchtown, Dublin pleaded guilty to one count of importing 41,360 ecstasy tablets at Clarence Mangan Road, South Circular Road, Dublin 8 on June 25, 2016.
Sentencing him in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court today, Judge Cormac Quinn accepted that Coonan acted out of fear ….read more
(Pictured: Mr Alan McNamara. Credit: Collins)
Gardai found a mobile phone associated with a murder accused that had been broken and left on waste ground, a trial has heard at the Central Criminal Court.
Alan ‘Cookie’ McNamara, (51),from Mountfune, Murroe, Co Limerick has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Andrew ‘AOD’ O’Donoghue on Saturday June 20, 2015 at the Road Tramps motorcycle clubhouse at Mountfune.
At Mr McNamara’s trial today, Garda Martin Hennessy told prosecuting counsel Michael Delaney SC that he found two mobile phones – a broken Samsung and half a Nokia – in an area of waste ground at Mungret ….read more
A Dublin man who told his landlord that gardaí had put in the wrong door during a drugs search has received a three year suspended sentence for possessing 1,500 tablets at the premises.
The gardaí who had carried out the raid were later forced to defend a claim for damages after Alan Norman (40) claimed to his landlord that they had targeted the wrong address.
Norman, of Fitzroy Avenue, Drumcondra, was caught with around 1,500 tablets of a controlled substance during the search in August 2015.
Garda Kieran Hickey told Dublin Circuit Criminal Court that on foot of confidential information he applied for ….read more
