A round-up of today's other courts news in brief
ACCBank may seek to have builder jailed
ACCBank may apply to the Commercial Court next week to have a Galway builder jailed for alleged contempt of orders requiring him to disclose to the bank all relevant details of his business affairs.
James Clancy undertook before the court yesterday to provide the information sought.
Mr Justice Brian McGovern yesterday granted the bank leave to bring a motion, returnable to next week, for the attachment and committal of Mr Clancy, Eagle Rock, Furbo, Co Galway, over his alleged failure to comply with an order of discovery.
ACC had previously secured judgment for €3.4 million against Mr Clancy over unpaid loans from ACC Asset Finance for a machine used for the manufacture of prefabricated polystyrene houses.
Robbery sentence suspended
A Limerick man who robbed a student on Dublin’s Millennium Bridge using a piece of broken glass has been given a three-year suspended sentence.
Michael Corbett (45) held a piece of glass to his victim's throat and threatened to push him into the Liffey if he did not stop moving.
Corbett, Lenihan Avenue, Prospect, Limerick City, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to robbery of a mobile phone from Mark Kennedy at Ormonde Quay in 2005. Judge Pat McCartan ordered Corbett to pay €1,000 to the victim in 12 months.
Man on menacing phone call charge
A man has been charged with making a menacing phone call to former Cork hurling manager Gerald McCarthy at the height of the dispute with the 2008 Cork hurling panel last March, reports Barry Roche.
Trevor O'Reilly (30), Anderson's Quay, Cork, was arrested by gardaí yesterday and brought before Cork District Court, where he was charged.
Det Sgt David Treacy of Togher Garda station gave evidence of arrest, charge and caution and told Judge Con O'Leary that O'Reilly made no reply to the charge.
Stabbing caused by jealousy – claim
A Laois man accused of murder stabbed his former girlfriend because she had met another man, the Central Criminal Court heard yesterday.
The court heard that the victim's body was lying naked in the bath of her home and that the accused man told gardaí that he had "lost it".
Gordon Molloy (24), Ballinakill, Ballickmoyler, Co Laois, has pleaded not guilty to murdering Ciara Ní Chathmhaoil (22) at Ardmore Gardens, Carlow, on November 12th, 2007.
The prosecution said it was a case of "if he couldn't have her, nobody else could".
Boy (15) awarded 24,000 damages
A Dublin schoolboy, who was injured on a bus trip to Donegal, has been awarded €24,000 damages in the Circuit Civil Court.
Circuit Court president Mr Justice Matthew Deery, heard that Peter O'Brien Hogan (15) suffered a broken leg when an uninsured driver ran into him.
Barrister Helen Louise Caffrey said Peter had just alighted from a bus in the Letterkenny Shopping Centre car park on June 22nd, 2006 when the incident occurred.
She said the motorist, from Co Derry, was uninsured and the claim was being met by the Motor Insurance Bureau.