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A 15-year-old boy who hit another teenager over the head with a wooden post and robbed his bike is at “real risk of institutionalisation”, a Dublin judge has been told.
The boy, who cannot be named because he is a juvenile, is currently serving an eight-month sentence in Oberstown Children’s Detention Campus for assault and threat to kill charges. He has 24 previous convictions and spent 12 months in custody last year.
He pleaded guilty in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to one count of robbery at a church in south Dublin on April 6, 2017.
Today, Garda Jennifer Quinn told John Quirke BL, ….read more
(Pictured: Carol Clarke. Credit: Collins)
By Isabel Hayes and Sonya McLean
A school cleaner who stole over €100,000 in social welfare fraud over a 17-year period by pretending to be her sister has avoided a jail term.
Carol Clarke, a 57-year-old mother of five, used the money to support her family and to help pay off one of her son’s drug debts, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard at a previous sentence hearing last May.
Clarke, with an address in Dunard Drive, Navan Road, Dublin, pleaded guilty to two counts of stealing from the Department of Social Welfare at Phibsborough post office between February 1994 ….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
(Pictured: Sergeant Maurice McCabe. Credit: Collins)
By Gerard Cunningham
A garda sergeant has told the Charleton Tribunal that he never experienced any malevolence or malice towards garda whistle blower Sgt Maurice McCabe.
The tribunal is inquiring into claims that allegations of sexual abuse were used as part of a campaign to smear and undermine the reputation of Sgt McCabe.
On day ten of the tribunal, Sergeant Tony Byrne said he was one of five or six garda sergeants who arrived together in Bailieboro in 2010 from different divisions.
He said there was a good working atmosphere in the station in the six and a half ….read more
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
