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A Lithuanian man who knocked a “peace-maker” to the ground with one punch leaving him with a serious head injury has been sentenced to three and half years in prison.
The court heard when Julian Matiunin (34) punched Jan Wielgus to the jaw, one witness described the victim as “falling down like a tree” while another person said they could hear “the crack of his head off the pavement”.
It was accepted that the injuries to the victim were caused from his head hitting the ground.
Mr Wielgus (46) was later treated in hospital in intensive care for bleeding around the brain, between ….read more
A High Court action has been launched over alleged damage to houses located beside the site of the new National children’s Hospital in Dublin.
The proceedings have been taken from 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.
The residents claim their homes have been damaged as a result of certain works being carried out by the defendants.
The matter was mentioned before Mr Justice Paul Gilligan on Thursday evening, who granted lawyers for the residents permission to serve short notice ….read more
A 71-year-old woman who had difficulty “staying wide awake” during High Court proceedings is to be surrendered to the UK where she faces charges of allegedly assisting in the rape of her daughter 40 years ago.
The UK citizen, with an address in Co Roscommon but who cannot be identified for legal reasons, is accused of indecently assaulting her daughter and jointly raping her with her then husband at addresses in West Sussex and Devon on dates in the late 1970s.
The complainant was aged between 10 and 15 at the time of the alleged offences, which were first reported in ….read more
The High Court has ruled that a financial fund is entitled to judgement of €8.7m against a Co Galway based developer.
Mr Justice Max Barrett in his judgement found that Seaconview Designated Activity Company is entitled to a summary judgement against Mr John Lally, of Drimcong House, Moycullen Co Galway.
He had opposed the application for judgement and had argued the case should go to a full hearing on several grounds, including that there had been an unreasonable and excessive delay by Seaconview is seeking judgement against him.
Seaconview opposed the application, and argued that Mr Lally had no defence to ….read more
A forensic psychiatrist for the State has told a Mayo man’s murder trial that he was voluntarily intoxicated, leading him to act in ‘an extremely impulsive and violent way’, when he killed two elderly brothers with special needs. She said he did not have a mental disorder in law.
It follows the evidence of a defence psychiatrist, who told the Central Criminal Court that Alan Cawley had three mental disorders at the time, which had diminished his responsibility for his actions and would give the jury the option of finding him guilty of manslaughter rather than murder.
The 30-year-old of Four Winds, ….read more
(Pictured: Sergeant Maurice McCabe. Credit: Collins)
By Gerard Cunningham
Garda whistleblower Maurice McCabe no longer trusted anybody after a complaint of child sexual assault was made against him, the Charleton tribunal has heard.
The tribunal is looking into whether Sgt McCabe was the target of a smear campaign on the direction of senior Garda management.
On day 14 of the tribunal, Superintendent Noel Cunningham gave evidence of conducting an investigation in late 2006 and early 2007 into a sex assault allegation made by the teenage daughter of a garda colleague of Sgt McCabe.
The girl, identified only as Ms D, alleged that Sgt McCabe had ….read more
