Mum of toddler who died after beating denies causing injuries
The mother of a toddler who died after being beaten and blinded broke down in tears as she denied causing the fatal injuries.
The mother of a toddler who died after being beaten and blinded broke down in tears as she denied causing the fatal injuries.
A WEXFORD man has been sentenced to 15 years for raping and sexually abusing a boy up to six times a night over a five year period.
A Securicor cash van driver couldn’t drive at one point during a tiger kidnap ordeal because he was crying so much, a court has been told.
A 17-year-old boy has pleaded not guilty to stealing 25 tablet computers during a brazen burglary at Reads bookshop on Nassau Street in Dublin.
ULSTER Bank has secured summary judgment for €3.5m against developer Jerry Beades arising from unpaid loans.
A MECHANIC has been accused of “parasitic” behaviour by using the trademark of the famous BMW car firm in his motor servicing business.
A serial robber who was “introduced to criminality” by his drug addicted parents at the age of 10 has been sentenced to 11 years for robbing three of his local pharmacies.
A DUBLIN teenager, who was involved with a gang responsible for a spate of letterbox “fishing” burglaries which led to multiple motor thefts, will be sentenced next month.
A THIRD level college is taking a High Court action against its former president seeking the repayment of up to €120,000 in expenses allegedly used for his personal benefit.
Seven people including three well known dissident Republicans were arrested in a huge garda operation this morning targeting major violent disorder which occurred outside the Dail during protests last month.
AN application by businessman Denis O’Brien to be added as a defendant to a multimillion euro legal action against the State will be heard in the High Court on November 7 next.
THE father-in-law of the late Tania McCabe has said the findings of an investigation into the care received by Savita Halappanavar has “relit the fire” following Tania’s untimely death.
THE Supreme Court has dismissed a bid to overturn a decision giving a residents group the right to legally challenge a €270m extension to the Ringsend sewage treatment plant in Dublin.
A baby, who was injured in a car accident two days before she was born, has been awarded just under €18,000 in the Circuit Civil Court for personal injury damages.
THE final words of a 60-year-old man being fatally beaten were to beg his attacker to stop hitting him, a court has heard.
A WIDOW plans to sue a leading consultant who failed to ensure medical tests were carried out on her husband.
FORMER millionaire property developer Kevin McGeever is to stand trial on charges of wasting garda time.
TWO brothers serving life sentences for murder say they should not be kept in the segregation unit of Portlaoise Prison.
A WOMAN with an extremely rare, 'melon-sized' internal growth on her hip would have died if she had not been admitted to A&E, an inquiry has heard.
A YOUNG man has been charged with attempted fraud at a major call centre processing property tax queries for the Revenue Commissioners.
A WIDOW plans to sue a leading consultant who failed to ensure medical tests were carried out on her husband.
THE final words of a 60-year-old man being fatally beaten were to beg his attacker to stop hitting him, a court has heard.
A POLISH truck driver has been jailed for five years for possessing and cultivating an estimated €145,000 worth of drugs at his partner's Dublin home.
TWO students who hacked Fine Gael's 2011 election website were spared jail sentences and have been left with clean records.
The trial is expected to begin today of a former solicitor charged with a large-scale theft and fraud.
AN interim examiner has been appointed by the High Court to the well-known fashion retailer Awear.
A SPANISH man injured when a bus and a Luas tram collided on Dublin's O'Connell Street four years ago has brought a High Court action for damages.
THE wife of the owner of a well-known pub has claimed she discovered she was owed €9.3m by her husband for loans she had advanced to him almost 10 years earlier.
A LITHUANIAN drugs gang is using newly arrived immigrants to sell drugs on the streets of towns and cities across Ireland, a judge has been told.
A MAN who took a personal-injury action, claiming that he suffered a debilitating back injury in a car crash, now faces up to 10 years in prison after DVDs emerged of him taking part in cage-fighting competitions.
A DUBLIN man who burgled the home of Irish rugby coach Joe Schmidt and stole one of his Heineken Cup winners medals has avoided a conviction "for the good of his children".
BILLIONS of euro in public money was and is being unlawfully paid out by the Finance Minister to insolvent banks via promissory notes, lawyers for United Left TD Joan Collins have told the High Court.
THE family of bankrupt former billionaire Sean Quinn has been given permission to serve legal proceedings on former Anglo Irish Bank CEO David Drumm in the US.
A Trinidadian woman caught smuggling cocaine into Dublin to raise money to treat her seriously ill son has been sentenced to six years in prison with five suspended.
A Polish truck driver has been jailed for five years for possessing and cultivating an estimated €145,000 of drugs at his partner's Dublin home.
A REVIEW has been launched into the decision not to prosecute Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams over allegations he failed to report his sex abuser brother.
A PILOT has told an Employment Appeals Tribunal hearing how Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary became aggressive and refused to reveal details of pay and conditions at the airline, indicating he would never allow that information to fall into the hands of the pilots' representative body, IALPA.
A JUDGE has said he needs to "reconsider his position" in sentencing a cash-strapped garda who stole a motor tax disc from his superior's office.
A RETIRED detective who prayed over the body of a colleague shot down in a gun battle has been awarded €150,000 damages at a garda compensation hearing.
HIGH-PROFILE restaurateur and publican Jay Bourke faces being banned from acting as a company director after a liquidator reported him to the business watchdog.
A MAN who assaulted and tied up two French students in their bedrooms during a violent night burglary will be sentenced at a later date.
A "DOWN-on-his-luck" graphic designer has admitted forging high-quality copies of free social welfare travel passes, which could have been used on public service transport.
A JUDGE in the United States has ordered that bust developer Sean Dunne must fully answer questions about his finances, including those relating to alleged transactions with his wife Gayle Killilea.
A man who is at a high risk of carrying out repeated violence has been sentenced to three and a half years for taking part in two unprovoked knife attacks.
A bank robber faces the activation of an eight year suspended sentence relating to a raid nine years ago, after he admitted taking part in another serious offence since.
A “DOWN on his luck” graphic designer has admitted forging high-quality copies of free social welfare travel passes which could have been used on public service transport throughout the country.
THE Garda Commisioner has refused to give a judge an undertaking to spare an officer from facing internal disciplinary proceedings after a court found him guilty of theft.
A Dublin man who assaulted and tied up two French students in their bedrooms during a violent night burglary will be sentenced at a later date.
TWO men have been granted bail after they were charged in connection with a €650,000 heroin seizure in Dublin.
SINN FEIN president Gerry Adams admitted that the conviction of his brother for a string of child sex abuse charges had been a "difficult and distressing ordeal" for the family.
A jury in the trial of a man accused of sexually assaulting, beating and threatening to kill a woman has found him guilty of assault causing harm but has disagreed on other charges.
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