Special Criminal Court

Five men arrested about MV Mathew to face Special Criminal Court over €157m cocaine haul

Counsel for Declan ‘Mr Nobody’ Brady says client on ‘a path to change’ and is now a model prisoner

Dundon was sentenced to life in prison in 2013 for the murder of Shane Geoghegan

Convicted killer accepted responsibility for recording footage of interview with witness who told gardaí he heard Brady admit to shooting detective

Brendan Grehan, who represented Gerard Hutch during his trial at the non-jury court last year, urges reform of emergency law dating back 50 years

Special Criminal Court ‘hard to disappear’ and ‘new forms of exceptionality’ building around far right, says expert

Michael Crotty (40) has pleaded not guilty to helping to facilitate Mr Kirwan’s murder in 2016

The party’s stance on the Government response quickly hardened from support to outright criticism once gaps in policing emerged.

State’s main opposition party - consistently topping opinion polls - is tinkering with its stances on tax and foreign policy as it seeks to present itself as a party of Government

Sandra Hehir (54) was discovered to have €124,055 in cash from criminals, with two others also pleading guilty to same offence

Harte brought a High Court case challenging the law that permitted his Special Criminal Court conviction

Michael Carroll (43) showed ‘callous contempt for public safety’ in attempts to murder Edward Staunton

James Flynn (32) found guilty of taking vehicle which prosecutors said used in incident leading to death of Det Adrian Donohoe

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Barry Young pleaded guilty at Special Criminal Court after phone containing incriminating messages seized by gardaí

Limerick criminal Noel Price (45) has 90 previous convictions, including for unlawful seizure of vehicle occupied by three children

Courts with exceptional powers are mostly a feature of undemocratic countries, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin tells event

New trial for Thomas ‘Nicky’ McConnell after Judge David McHugh becomes unwell

The Act has been deployed against the IRA at various times in the past but that threat no longer exists

Minister for Justice Helen McEntee unlikely to accept Sinn Féin amendments in vote for renewal of the Court’s remit

Government-appointed group recommends controversial non-jury Special Criminal Court be retained

Court of Appeal president Mr Justice George Birmingham said that when he first read the appellant’s submissions, his first reaction was that Dowdall had done “extraordinarily well”

Minister for Justice to seek Cabinet approval for review of report on future of Special Criminal Court, majority and minority reports to be published on Tuesday

One-third of Government-appointed review group believe the non-jury court is no longer justified

Public representatives and NGOs need time to analyse recommendations, says Irish Council for Civil Liberties

Special Criminal Court declined to order the State pay Mr Hutch’s costs for 52-day trial, likely to top €500,000

Anthony Glynn pleaded guilty earlier this year to having hundreds of rounds of various ammunition and €1.4 million in drugs for the Kinahan

Gardaí are unaware if gangland figure is moving permanently or travelling to manage substantial assets in Costa del Sol

Brendan Treanor and James Flynn deny involvement in 2013 Co Louth incident that resulted in death of detective

Closing speeches being delivered in Special Criminal Court trial of Brendan Treanor and James Flynn

Mr Hutch is seeking his legal costs and the hearing on the application has been adjourned until June

Barry Young (38) pleaded guilty to directing gang in drug dealing, intimidation and money laundering

Prosecutor says Brendan Treanor’s tattoo featuring guns and gangsters a ‘pictorial admission’ of role in 2013 incident

Caolan Smyth (30) and Gary McAreavey (55) are asking the court to quash their convictions and to reject phone data as inadmissible

Appeals are likely to have implications for any potential Supreme Court appeal by Graham Dwyer

Minority opinion in favour of abolition may be awkward for Government which believes non-jury court still needed

Prof Liz Campbell: Our history of responding to paramilitary violence has enabled the normalisation of this extraordinary form of criminal trial

Review may favour reform of non-jury court rather than abolition

Many were surprised a murder charge was pursued against Hutch, who is now free after a 13-week trial

A spokesperson for Minister for Justice told The Irish Times that Department of Justice and the Minister were aware of the incident