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Man caught with bullets at his home told gardai he had been out of breath and sweating when they arrived because he had been “having a wank”.
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Mr Justice David Keane today refused to accept character references submitted on behalf of a man who raped and sexually abused three children over three decades ago, after hearing that the referees were not present in court.
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James 'Jake' Boles (24), who was given a wholly suspended sentence for weekly attacks on his partner, during which he dragged her by the hair, slammed her head, pushed his fist into her face and screamed abuse, will now be sent to jail after a successful appeal by the State.
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An asylum seeker who days after arriving in Ireland sexually assaulted a young woman in Dublin city centre after following her for up to half an hour as she tried to get away from him has been jailed for two years and three months. Adel Kerai (26) had arrived in Ireland just
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The Court of Appeal has ruled that John Waters and Gemma O'Doherty must pay the legal costs of their failed appeal against a refusal to permit them to challenge laws introduced in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Jailed teacher Enoch Burke will remain behind bars for Christmas after he again refused to obey a court order to stay away and not attempt to teach at the secondary school he is employed at.
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Enoch Burke walking free from Mountjoy Prison this evening.
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Dean Kerrie (21), who stabbed and killed an intruder who had attacked him in his home in the early hours of the morning, has been jailed for three-and-a-half years by the Central Criminal Court.
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Jozef Puska (33), who stabbed 23-year-old school teacher Ashling Murphy 11 times in the neck as she went for an afternoon run, has been found guilty of her murder by the unanimous verdict of a Central Criminal Court jury.
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A young college student was discovered in an abandoned house in a critical hypothermic state, partially-clothed and covered in cuts and bruises, hours after she had been raped in a random attack, a court has heard. Her rapist, Mihail Ciorici (41) was today jailed for 11 years by
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Dublin rioter Declan Donaghey (28), who set a garda car alight and damaged a migrant centre during “one of the gravest examples of public disorder in the history of the State”, has been jailed for 6.5 years.
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Josh Conlon (19) has been given a fully-suspended sentence for his role in a two-hour attack, during which a woman was tied up, beaten with a broom handle and had boiling water poured over her.
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A food delivery man who sexually assaulted a student outside her Dublin accommodation is now working as a Bus Eireann driver, a court has heard. Arslan Cheema (29) of Brookview Avenue, Artane, Dublin 5, pleaded guilty to one count of sexual assault carried out in a car outside
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The High Court has dismissed a legal challenge by John Waters and Gemma O'Doherty against laws introduced by the State due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Mohamed Mohamud Mohamed (26) has been jailed for his “predatory” actions in following a woman to the isolated toilets of a bar at closing time and attempting to rape her. Mohamed, with a former address on Townsend Street, Dublin 2, asked the woman why she was screaming during
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The mother of a teenager who tragically died by suicide has secured High Court orders restraining former journalist Gemma O'Doherty from harassing her and using any images of her late son.
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Alanna Quinn Idris, who was blinded in one eye as she attempted to defend her friend during an organised assault by a gang of four youths, has said she feels "kind of let down" by the three-year jail sentence imposed on one of her attackers today.
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The High Court has been asked to grant orders halting the Dail and Seanad vote on measures contained in the EU pact on migration and asylum until a referendum takes place.
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Nikita Hand broke down today as she told a High Court civil jury that she thought she was going to die and would never see her daughter again during an alleged rape by celebrity fighter Conor McGregor.
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A Zimbabwean fraudster posed as a child psychologist here for two years, receiving €172,000 in wages and expenses, and was only caught after he was put forward for a senior post with the HSE, a court has heard.
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An Irish senior executive with Twitter has secured a temporary High Court injunction preventing the social networking giant from terminating her employment. The order was secured by Sinead McSweeney, who is Twitter's Global Vice President for Public Policy.
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Repeat offender Deji Oshinowo (51), whose progress toward citizenship has been "paused" after he was caught with three false passports from African nations, has been given a suspended sentence.
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A violent offender who grabbed and raped a woman with a mild intellectual disability and then falsely imprisoned her in his home, raping her twice more, was given an extraordinarily lenient sentence because he can't speak English, the State has argued at the Court of Appeal today
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Law professor Diarmuid Phelan, who went on trial for murdering a trespasser on his farm but maintained from the outset that he had no intention of shooting him and had acted in self defence when he fired three warning shots, has been acquitted by a Central Criminal Court jury.
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Tech firm Wix has admitted to unfairly dismissing Irish worker Courtney Carey, who made social media posts criticising Israel and now feels she has been “blacklisted”.
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The mother of a teenage boy who died by suicide has brought more proceedings seeking to establish the identities of Twitter account holders alleged to have breached a High Court injunction restraining former journalist Gemma O'Doherty and others from harassing her.
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Stefan Bornac (21), who left a young English tourist in a three-week coma following an unprovoked attack in Dublin city centre, has withdrawn an appeal against his 4.5-year sentence, after a judge highlighted the level of violence involved in the assault.
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A child rapist who repeatedly abused a young girl from when she was aged eight, including one instance when he tied her to a bed, held a knife to her throat and threatened her, will now serve over 15 years in prison after the Court of Appeal rejected his sentence appeal and
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Take-away driver Arslan Cheema (29), who “abused the trust” of a student by sexually assaulting her outside her accommodation, has received a suspended prison sentence. The court heard today that Cheema, who subsequently worked as a Bus Eireann driver, has since lost his job due
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A Romanian criminal who told gardai he preyed on vulnerable women "because it was easy" has been jailed for eight years for raping a homeless woman in a Co Limerick alleyway. Cristian Gogosiou (37) with an address at Mount Kenneth Place, Limerick, has 37 previous convictions in
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An Indian man who sexually assaulted a young woman during a concert at Marlay Park while on a month-long visit to Ireland has received a fully suspended sentence. Kartikey Gupta (22) was today directed to leave Ireland within two weeks and not return for 10 years.
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The wife of Jozef Puska and two of his brothers will go on trial next year charged with failing to disclose information to gardai investigating the murder of Ashling Murphy.
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Eoin Prizeman (35), who uploaded a video of a man raping a young boy to his own Facebook page and was caught with 276 videos of child abuse has been given a fully suspended sentence.
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A Russian teenager who had her place on a summer camp in Ireland cancelled due to the invasion of Ukraine has been awarded €1,500 for racial discrimination.
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Uninsured rider Shane Ward (27), who drove a scrambler motorbike down a footpath and struck a pedestrian, leaving her with life-changing injuries, is to have his driving licence restored early, a judge has ruled. Gardai had strongly objected to any reduction in Ward’s driving
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A high-risk sex offender who raped a woman with a mild intellectual disability three times has had his jail term increased, with the Court of Appeal finding that the discount he received for being a non-English speaker in an Irish prison was "excessive".
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A Danish-Somalian man has been jailed for 18 months after he was paid to help smuggle a woman into Ireland, in what a court heard was a “sophisticated operation”. The woman, who had already been refused asylum in Greece, said Mohamed Mahamed (48) gave her a passport for someone
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Over four decades after the biggest disaster of its kind in the history of the State, an inquest jury has found that all 48 of the young people who died in the Stardust nightclub fire were unlawfully killed.
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A visually-impaired man who was “publicly humiliated” when the driver of a Bus Éireann coach refused to let him board with his guide dog last summer – requiring him take a taxi to a medical appointment and stop at an ATM to take out cash for the fare -- has won €4k for
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Boyfriend of murdered teacher Ashling Murphy sues BBC for defamation.
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Karen Harkin (22), who was raped and sexually abused by her father when she was a child, has said she will no longer imprison herself in “feelings of guilt and shame that are not mine to carry”.
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Two Nigerian women who forced their human trafficking victims into prostitution after a "voodoo ceremony" in the first ever conviction of its type in Ireland have had their jail sentences increased by the Court of Appeal.
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A 24-year-old with 51 previous convictions who took part in a Temple Bar gang attack on a victim who was slashed and stabbed multiple times has been jailed for three years and nine months. In an impact statement, the victim wrote that most of his assailants “are still roaming
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A woman will say she was left "weeping and shivering in pain" after she was subjected to what she alleges was a "vicious and violent" sexual assault by Mixed Martial Arts star Conor McGregor, during which she "thought she would be killed", a High Court civil jury has been told.
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Violent convicted rapist Vadim Veste (28), who carried out a “shocking, brutal and cowardly" sex attack on an “unsuspecting woman” walking her dog in a Cork park just 18 days after he came to Ireland, has been jailed for six years.
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The suspended sentence handed down to James 'Jake' Boles, who dragged his partner by the hair, slammed her head, pushed his fist into her face and screamed abuse at her while subjecting her to "appalling" coercive control was too lenient, the State has told the Court of Appeal.
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Alanna Quinn Idris, who was blinded in one eye during an organised attack by a gang of four youths, is a "courageous young woman" who was attempting to defend her friend at the time, defence counsel for one of the attackers has told a sentencing hearing.
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Twitter has been ordered to pay over €550,000 compensation to a former senior executive at its Irish operations in what is a record award by the Workplace Relations Commission for an unfair dismissal case. The WRC heard that the social media giant - now known as X - decided
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Enoch Burke dramatically spurned a judge's offer to temporarily release him from jail this afternoon and has returned to Mountjoy Prison, where he has spent over 300 days over his failure to comply with an order to stay away from Wilson's Hospital School in Co Westmeath.
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A trial judge was in error when he directed a jury to acquit a man of raping his six-year-old cousin on the basis that there could be no assault as she had touched him on his invitation, the Court of Appeal has found.
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Courtney Carey, the worker who was fired by Israeli tech firm Wix over posts on social media about the conflict in Palestine, has won €35,000 in compensation for unfair dismissal.
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Mr Justice Charles Meenan on Gemma O'Doherty and John Waters: ."The applicants, who have no medical or scientific qualifications or expertise, relied on their own unsubstantiated views, gave speeches, engaged in empty rhetoric.
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Activist Stephen Bedford (38) has admitted driving into immigration protesters during a live-streamed incident in Dublin and will be sentenced next year.
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Piotr Grycuk (45), who was caught with over 10,000 images of child sexual abuse material, of which 30 were described as being in the most serious, sexually explicit category, has been given a fully suspended sentence.
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After several delays a woman's damages claim for alleged assault against Mixed Martial Arts star Conor McGregor, which was lodged against the celebrity fighter three years ago, is to go before a High Court jury next month.
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Barrister Simeon Burke has had his conviction for a "volatile" breach of the peace following a "melee" at his brother Enoch's case in the Four Courts in Dublin last year struck out after a judge found there was insufficient evidence he had committed a criminal offence.
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The High Court has released Enoch Burke from Mountjoy Prison.
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TD Paul Murphy has been given permission to bring a High Court challenge against the refusal of the Standards in Public Office Commission to investigate a claim that Taoiseach Leo Varadkar leaked a draft pay deal agreement between the State and and the Irish Medical Organisation.
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A worker who was sacked because her bosses believed a Facebook post they linked to her had criticised Ukrainian refugees for leaving the war zone and was "hate speech" has won over €10,500 for unfair dismissal.
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Leeanda Farrelly (49), who acted as a “self-appointed judge, jury and executioner” when she posted a photo on Facebook identifying one of the boys who murdered 14-year-old Ana Kriégel and encouraged others to share it, has avoided jail.
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Nathan Kirby (22), who attacked a 76-year-old pensioner on the street, fracturing his jaw, breaking his dentures and knocking out a front tooth after they had earlier rowed about change, has been given a fully suspended sentence.
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Former senior Department of Justice official Niall Colgan (39), who admitted possessing child abuse material including videos of a prepubescent girl and a boy who appeared to be under the age of 10, has been handed a fully suspended prison sentence.
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A groundskeeper who was nearing retirement when he said his bosses began "spying" on him, told him he was "slowing down" and replaced his broken electric litter cart with a manual version that he had to push 15km per day has been awarded €15k for ageist discrimination.
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An Algerian man who was part of a violent gang carrying out “targeted” muggings, during which expensive designer watches were ripped from victims’ wrists - including a €20,000 watch from an American tourist - has been jailed for six and a half years.
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Security guard Abdul Rahman Mohammed (35) falsely imprisoned a 15-year-old girl, forced her to strip and sexually assaulted her before trying to extort €250 from her after she shoplifted from Penneys, a court has heard.
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"The courts have sent a message today, they have sent a message loud and clear: Violence will no longer be tolerated against anyone in this country." . - Natasha O'Brien at the CCJ today.
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A road rage attacker has been given community service for breaking three bones in another driver’s face with a tyre iron. Judge Dara Hayes said that a custodial sentence was not warranted for Graham Rosarius (45), who has 11 previous convictions, after finding that he had "put
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Riad Bouchaker (50) appears in court charged with attempted murder of three children in Parnell Square stabbings .
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A burglar who grabbed a homeowner in the groin during a struggle ended up hanging upside down from the blinds of a bedroom window after he was beaten with a golf club as he tried to escape, a court has heard.
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A serial burglar who broke into homes in Leinster and led gardaí on two separate high-speed car chases has been jailed for four and a half years. After one arrest, Kacper Koszarski spat on the floor of a garda station and told officers: “I f'ing smoked you".
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Security guard Abdul Rahman Mohammed (35), who falsely imprisoned a 15-year-old girl, forcing her to strip and sexually assaulting her before trying to extort €250 after she shoplifted from Penneys, has been jailed for five years.
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Kathleen Kiely (32) , who was caught trying to sell €90,000 of stolen gold jewellery to a cash for gold shop, has received a fully suspended sentence.
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The teenager serving a life sentence for murdering Urantsetseg Tserendorj as she walked home from work shouted "f**k off, get me out of this court," this morning when he realised that the Court of Appeal was not going to reduce his detention term.
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Speaking outside court this afternoon, Alanna Quinn Idris told reporters that she felt her victim impact statement had been “pointless”. “I’ve to be like this now for the rest of my life and in four-and-a-half-years' time, he [Darragh Lyons] will be out."
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The teenager who stabbed Urantsetseg Tserendorj as she walked home from work has been found guilty of her murder by majority jury verdict.
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A judge has said it is "little wonder" that members of An Garda Síochana are leaving the force as she jailed an addict with 109 previous convictions who bit two officers after telling them he had HIV.
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The trial of six men accused of offences relating to the murder of gunman Tristan Sherry, who shot a man dead at a Christmas Eve party, will open tomorrow before the Special Criminal Court.
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Calistus Omoikhudu (21), who was 16 when he stabbed a teenager in the aftermath of the fatal knife attack on Azzam Raguragui five years ago, has been handed a fully suspended prison sentence.
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The teenager who murdered mother of two Urantsetseg Tserendorj as she walked home from work is to remain serving his life sentence after his conviction was today upheld by the Court of Appeal.
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Enoch Burke has told the Court of Appeal that Wilson's Hospital School directed him to refer to a student by a different name and by the pronoun 'they', which amounted to a demand he participate in transgenderism in breach of his Constitutional rights.
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A judge has given a man, who has 69 previous convictions and helped a murderer by trying to set fire to the victim's body, "a further chance" by jailing him for a year instead of reactivating the two suspended years of his sentence after he was convicted of criminal damage.
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Darragh Lyons (19), who took part in a “savage attack” by a gang of youths that left teenager Alanna Quinn Idris blind in one eye, has been sentenced to four and a half years in prison.
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The Supreme Court has upheld the Minister for Justice's decision to refuse residency under a special student scheme to an Indian woman found to have entered into a sham marriage and a Pakistani man found to have submitted false documents in support of his application. In
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Media barred from naming man accused of attempted kidnapping of toddler in Dublin
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Bláthnaid Raleigh, who was left with extensive injuries after she was raped by an acquaintance from her hometown, has said that she wants to be a “support and advocate for other victims of sexual violence” as she is aware that not every victim gets to see their attacker
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A transgender woman has lost an appeal against her six-year jail sentence for sexually assaulting and threatening her former partner's son.
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An appeal by John Waters and Gemma O'Doherty against a refusal to permit them to challenge the constitutionality of laws introduced in response to the Covid-19 pandemic has been dismissed.
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A repeat offender who was part of a group of “absolute thugs” who struck a student on the back of the head with a bottle has been jailed for three years, as the sentencing judge said there has to be a deterrence to stop people hanging out in groups and behaving in this manner.
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Calculating “predator” Kamal Kumar Nepali (24) burglarised four properties “to find an intoxicated female to rape” before finally breaking into a house and raping a woman as she slept, the Central Criminal Court was told today.
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An arsonist who went on a Christmas crime spree, setting fire to three cars and an auto body garage, destroying the owner's livelihood, has had his three and a half-year jail sentence increased to nine years by the Court of Appeal.
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Schoolteacher Enoch Burke, who was dismissed from his position for alleged gross misconduct, has been ordered to pay legal costs to Wilson’s Hospital School in their successful High Court action against him earlier this year.
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A former priest who violently sexually abused a vulnerable young woman as he drove her to the Rape Crisis Centre for counselling has been jailed after his fully suspended sentence was overturned by the Court of Appeal.
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A “gender-critical” activist who demanded a public apology and damages after being refused entry to a National Women’s Council of Ireland meeting two years ago has failed in a discrimination claim.
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A young man who posted a collage of intimate images of his teenage girlfriend on Snapchat to his 1,100 followers after they broke up has been jailed for six months.
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A young woman who was raped and sexually abused by her father has said it is “surreal” that notes taken during her counselling sessions were used in his trial.
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Reading from her own victim impact statement today, Ms Kamikaze said she was grateful that Quinn's “cudgel” struck her head and not the head of a more vulnerable person. She said Quinn “hurt himself and his movement far more than he hurt me”.
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Truck driver Zahir Boudahane (50), who caused catastrophic injuries to a pedestrian after breaking a red light, making an illegal turn and dragging the victim under his vehicle, has avoided prison with a suspended sentence.
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The two-year jail sentence handed down to a robber with 92 previous convictions who rammed garda cars while travelling the wrong way down a motorway was significantly too lenient, the Court of Appeal found today as it more than trebled the offender's prison time.
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The fully suspended sentence handed down to the "determined and organised" admin of a child abuse messaging group who was caught with hundreds of images and videos after an FBI tip-off was too lenient, the State has argued.
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A banned, serial driving offender who killed a much-loved grandmother while speeding at close to 100km/h in a 50 km/h zone as he tried to evade gardai has been jailed for six years. Michael McGuirk (23) has 66 previous convictions, including three for dangerous driving, seven
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