Criminal Courts

Dáil Justice Committee urges Minister to suspend contentious legal-aid fee changes

But Jim O’Callaghan says single flat-rate payments for solicitors in court will be brought in as planned

Former garda has assault conviction linked to Strokestown eviction quashed by High Court

Security man had alleged Kevin Taylor grabbed him, causing him to go to ground

Garda allegedly raped wife and subjected daughters to child cruelty, court hears

Jury hears of ‘atmosphere of fear’ as well as ‘suppressed and expressed violence’ in family home

Two men charged after off-duty garda ‘pursued’ and assaulted in Dublin

Gardaí obtained video and audio recordings of the pair on Aston Quay talking about the incident

‘Take Mr Donaldson down’: The rise and fall of former DUP star Jeffrey Donaldson

Politician once won praise in Westminster and Washington, but on Monday was being processed in prison

New custody cases may be disrupted as solicitors escalate action over legal aid payments

More criminal hearings are adjourned as row with Department of Justice worsens

Man who got tattoo as reminder of day he violently raped teenager is jailed for 10 years

She tells court she hopes he ‘feels nothing but shame and disgust’ when he looks at it

Man jailed for 17 years for rape and coercive control of ex-partner

Woman tells Central Criminal Court she was ‘merely an object to be used, abused and destroyed’

Cork solicitors withdraw from legal aid scheme for criminal work

Contentious proposals to overhaul free legal aid scheme could lead to exodus of solicitors

Former teacher told he ‘might die in prison’ at sentencing for child sex abuse

Patrick Sharkey (83) given 6½ years for 132 charges of abuse spanning a quarter of a century

Gardaí warned criminal prosecutions may be at risk over solicitors’ withdrawal of service

Denial of right to solicitor’s advice could lead to suspects seeking to derail prosecutions, force fears

Hundreds of criminal cases adjourned as solicitors withdraw services in legal aid row

Action could intensify next week to affect all cases, solicitors warn

US tourist who killed mother of two while driving rental car gets suspended sentence

Cathy Stewart (67) deemed to have pressed accelerator rather than brake while parking outside hotel

Man accidentally set off panic alarm while attempting to rob Ranelagh ice cream parlour

Carl McGuinness (31), who has 117 previous convictions, tracked down by gardaí via phone finder app on handset he stole

Man who stabbed 14-year-old’s hand with glass shard while trying to rob e-scooter jailed

Behaviour of Daniel Hayes (30), who had 126 previous convictions, ‘cowardly and shameful’, judge says

Jeffrey Donaldson watches from the dock as two alleged victims address sex abuse trial

Two alleged victims in trial of former DUP leader and wife Eleanor Donaldson have between them spent five days in the witness box

Murder accused captured on CCTV saying he could not wait to see face of attack victim

Alex Deady was heard telling two co-accused he believed his injuries were nothing compared with those of Barry Daly

Trial hears Jeffrey Donaldson told teenager: ‘I am truly sorry. Please forgive me’

Founder of Christian Family Centre facilitated meeting between former DUP leader and complainant, Newry court told

Sentencing of Charlie Chawke’s son and daughter for assault set for mid-July

Bill and Alison Chawke pleaded guilty to assaulting two men at Dunraven Arms Hotel in Adare in 2023

Prosecution to argue three youths charged with murder of Cork man ‘acted together’

Youths pleaded not guilty to murder of father of five Barry Daly (44) in Co Cork last October

Teenager ‘addicted to stealing cars’ pleads guilty to 11 charges

Court hears boy has not been provided with services to meet his needs

Ex-business student who exposed himself to women given 16-month sentence

Judge says man offended against solitary women, locating vulnerable victims including a woman working alone at night

New ‘actuarial’ criminal legal aid payments open to legal challenge, Law Society warns

Anger mounts among solicitors after Minister for Justice presented plan as a ‘fait accompli’

Man appears in court accused of murdering mother of two in Co Galway

Ali Sohrabi charged after hotel worker Masoumeh Jafri Manojan found dead in Clifden

Civil servant accused of leaking confidential information to foreign ‘handlers’, court hears

Yevgen McKeeffe, an Irish citizen originally from Ukraine, was arrested at Dublin Airport on Thursday

Jeffrey Donaldson’s wife had listening device planted in car due to suspicion of affair

Ex-DUP leader was ‘very clever man’ who would not admit to abuse in 2020 letter, complainant tells abuse trial

Man given suspended sentence for harassing female colleague with ‘relentless’ sexual innuendo

Judge said case derived from a male culture where speaking disrespectfully of women ‘is excused by the manosphere and the likes of the Tates’

Two murder accused allegedly heard ‘gloating’ about assaulting man who died in hospital

Christopher Colin Nobes (31) and Andrew John Matthews (25) charged with murder of Nicholas Gordon (51) in Belfast

Man who broke red light and killed couple at pedestrian crossing in Blanchardstown jailed for five years

John Halpin (46) had pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing the deaths of Anthony Hogg (40) and Georgina Hogg Moore (39)

Garda taped conversations with wife, put tracker on her phone and told her to stay at home

David Reynolds had ‘old-fashioned attitude’ and treated woman like ‘chattel’, judge says

‘You hunted me and broke the soul of a child’: Sports coach sexually abused teenage girls

Victims tell Central Criminal Court of ordeal at hands of man who was training and mentoring them

Man jailed for 11 years after kicking to death ‘inoffensive man’ he met in pub

Gardaí found Aaron Wolfe (32) in a highly intoxicated state, stripped to the waist, with his hands covered in blood

Mother who captained Irish boxing team stabbed cousin 12 times in ‘savage’ knife attack

Victim underwent emergency surgery, plastic surgery, blood transfusions and is permanently injured, court hears

Conviction for Dublin rioter who set Garda car alight upheld by Court of Appeal

Man argued there was a risk he was ‘being made an example of’ by the sentencing judge

Woman’s world ‘shattered’ after driver broke red light and knocked her down, court hears

Driver who was ‘distraught over what happened’ gets 12-month suspended sentence

Mother of three jailed for Brown Thomas designer jacket theft

Cathriona Joyce (39) and Caitlin Joyce (21) of St Brigid’s Lawn, Porterstown in Dublin were before Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on Thursday

Court hears 3D printed guns are becoming ‘more prevalent’ as man jailed for four years

Comment made during sentence hearing of Craig McKeever for possession of .22-calibre printed gun with ammunition

Drug dealer threatened ‘to get junkies to rape woman’s son’ over €157k debt, court hears

He also told her he would give her a month to pay up or ‘her son would be shot’

Man with ‘significant history of violence’ who assaulted ex outside workplace jailed

Mykola Kaznacheiev (56) previously received prison sentences totalling 21 years in his native Ukraine

Man who absconded from mental health facility and falsely imprisoned woman jailed

Court hears woman was in ‘total state of shock’ after incident and her life has changed significantly since

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