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A biker shot a member of a rival motorcycle club dead over a territorial dispute in Limerick, a prosecuting barrister told a murder trial jury today.
Alan McNamara (50), of Mountfune, Murroe, Co Limerick has pleaded not guilty to murdering Andrew O’Donoghue (51) in Murroe, Co Limerick on June 20, 2015.
His stepson, Robert Cusack (28), is charged with impeding Mr McNamara’s apprehension knowing or believing him to have committed a serious offence. Mr Cusack has also pleaded not guilty and both men are being tried together at the Central Criminal Court.
Opening the trial, Michael Delaney SC for the prosecution told ….read more
A Palestinian man who repeatedly stabbed his ex-wife in front of their four-year-old daughter has been sentenced to three and half years with the final nine months suspended.
Kassem Hamdam (30) later told gardaí that the woman had “fucked my life” and said he had wanted her to be left with a permanent scar. He said he couldn’t leave his child “with this bitch” and claimed the relationship had come to an end because she was jealous and didn’t like him drinking.
Hamdam, of Windsor Terrace, Portobello, Dublin 8 pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to assault causing harm to the ….read more
(Pictured: Ms Eve Doherty. Credit: Collins)
A garda accused of harassing a State solicitor could not be linked by any computer used by her to a photograph of the solicitor used on abusive posters, a jury has heard.
Eve Doherty (49), a garda based in Dublin, is charged with harassing Elizabeth Howlin between September 2011 and March 2013 and making false statements claiming Ms Howlin was perverting the course of justice.
On day three of the trial former Detective Inspector Martin Cummins, now retired, showed the jury a poster which had photographs of Ms Howlin and Brendan Howlin TD, a distant cousin of ….read more
A Mayo man killed two elderly brothers in their home just hours after telling strangers in a pub that he was a doctor, who would carry out autopsies on any bodies found that night.
Alan Cawley’s murder trial also heard that he threatened to have one customer ‘committed’ with the help of the Gardaí to prevent him killing his wife.
The evidence was heard today at the Central Criminal Court, where the 30-year-old is on trial charged with murdering both Thomas Blaine and John (Jack) Blaine. They were found beaten to death four years ago.
Mr Cawley of Four Winds, Corrinbla, Ballina, Co ….read more
By Liz Farsaci
A father was granted sole custody of his children after a court heard he was terrified the mother – who suffered serious injuries in a suicide attempt – would try to take the children away.
The father was today granted temporary sole custody of the children at the Dublin District Family Court. He remains in the family home with the children, while the mother remains in hospital.
The father also applied for a barring order against the mother, but that was withdrawn once the mother promised – through her solicitor Ursula Regan – that she would not go near the ….read more
The prosecution has concluded giving evidence in the non-jury trial of a Limerick man accused of threatening to shoot a 74-year-old and burn his “house to the ground”.
Larry McCarthy Jnr (39), with addresses at the Old Cork Road and Cornmarket Villas in Limerick, is charged with threatening to kill Noel Moore and threatening to damage Mr Moore’s property at Windsor House, Donoughmore, Limerick on July 28, 2015.
Arraigned on the charges before the non-jury Special Criminal Court on Monday, Mr McCarthy Jnr pleaded not guilty to both counts.
Opening the State’s case, prosecuting counsel, Diana Stuart BL, told the three-judge court that ….read more
