The Irish Times

Legal world divided on legacy of retiring High Court president

Mary Irvine angered barristers with guidelines slashing minor personal injury awards

Sat Apr 30 2022 - 06:00

Doorman who left pub owner to die has jail term reduced by one year on appeal

Defendant was sentenced to nine years after he was convicted of manslaughter in 2019

Fri Apr 08 2022 - 21:57

Man who threatened to kill former colleagues of Garda Colm Horgan has jail term cut

Enda Gavigan made threats to kill after he was arrested on suspicion of criminal damage

Fri Apr 08 2022 - 15:23

Minister for Eucharist fails in bid to have jail term for sexually abusing young girl reduced

The man built a garden shed which his victim believed was for the purpose of committing sex assaults

Fri Apr 08 2022 - 13:35

Man has jail term increased for role in violence at party where Cameron Blair stabbed

Scott O’Connor armed himself with knife and encouraged ‘a situation of violence to develop’, judge said

Tue Apr 05 2022 - 13:55

Man who twice raped schoolgirl at his sister’s 18th birthday party loses jail term appeal

Richard O’Mara (33) convicted and sentenced to 14 years’ imprisonment

Wed Mar 23 2022 - 14:20

Woman sobs in court as she’s told she is being jailed for false sex assault allegation

Judges in the Court of Appeal imposed a one-year custodial term

Tue Mar 08 2022 - 20:13

Court upholds sentence of global crime gang’s ‘sacrificial lamb’

DPP argued three-and-a-half-year jail term for money laundering was unduly lenient

Mon Jan 31 2022 - 13:45

First people in Ireland convicted of FGM face retrial after convictions quashed

Court rules trial was ‘unfair’ because of problems with translation of their testimony

Thu Nov 18 2021 - 15:38

Man found civilly liable for Omagh bombing to be extradited to Lithuania

Liam Campbell fails in bid to prevent extradition on suspicion of arms smuggling

Wed Jul 28 2021 - 20:30

Two men jailed for life for murder of Co Offaly man have convictions quashed

Thomas ‘Toddy’ Dooley was beaten to death with a baseball bat in his home in 2014

Tue Jul 13 2021 - 22:22

Gardaí should disclose material to DPP in secret IRA cases, court hears

DPP should see files on which ‘belief evidence’ is based, argues Rights Commission

Fri Jul 02 2021 - 20:00

Man who murdered 90-year-old tells court there’s no proof he caused death

Man’s lawyer tells court pathology evidence shows man died due to hip fracture

Tue Apr 20 2021 - 18:44

Man needing treatment at Central Mental Hospital to remain in prison, court rules

Court of Appeal told man is being held at Cloverhill Prison due to lack of hospital beds

Thu Apr 01 2021 - 17:08

Burglar who put homeowners through ‘terrifying ordeal’ has sentence increased

Michael Cawley was 16 when he tried to force door of Stillorgan home open as owner held it

Fri Mar 19 2021 - 13:17

Father and son appeal sentences for hammer assault over €50 debt

Two men had been sentenced to 10 and seven years

Mon Mar 15 2021 - 17:32

Storm Emma looter avoids jail after ‘progressing very well’

Court gives 39-year-old suspended sentence and orders him to stay ‘on straight and narrow’

Thu Mar 04 2021 - 22:23

Appeal court jails garda for dangerous driving causing death of mother of three

Three-judge court accepts argument by DPP that original suspended sentence was too lenient

Mon Feb 01 2021 - 19:09

Man jailed for ‘extreme domestic violence’ given last chance to appeal

Accountant’s solicitor fails to attend case over conviction for kicking and stabbing partner

Mon Jan 18 2021 - 14:22

Judge ‘shocked’ by six-day cross-examination of boy

Barrister representing man appealing conviction for raping son criticised in court

Mon Jan 11 2021 - 22:39

Man found guilty of sexually assaulting girl (10) has conviction overturned

Barrister argued that trial judge presented ‘imbalanced view of evidence’ in his charge

Wed Dec 09 2020 - 21:53

Man’s sex assault conviction quashed as trial juror was related to victim in separate case

Court of Appeal orders a retrial amid what judge describes as a ‘very unusual’ situation

Fri Jul 03 2020 - 20:45

Octogenarian paedophile appeals conviction for abusing son

Clare man (86) who used son as ‘sexual plaything’ is serving four year sentence

Thu Apr 23 2020 - 16:41

Court upholds convictions over €2m cash-in-transit robbery

Three men appealed convictions for kidnapping family as part of robbery in 2018

Mon Apr 20 2020 - 12:00

Court of Appeal increases sentences for high-end assault cases

Sentences for three people jailed for separate assaults in Waterford were ‘unduly lenient’

Thu Feb 20 2020 - 19:34

Court of Appeal doubles sentences for cannabis ‘delivery men’

Polish pair sentenced to six years in jail over possession of €1.3m in drugs in Carlow

Thu Jan 16 2020 - 19:14

Farmer who killed neighbour with teleporter sees jail term increased from five to nine years

DPP had appealed leniency of Michael Ferris’ sentence for manslaughter of Anthony O’Mahony

Mon Dec 02 2019 - 21:09

Man jailed for ‘life-changing’ one-punch assault has sentence cut in half

Mark O’Sullivan’s attack left victim with ‘catastrophic’ injuries, judge says

Fri Oct 11 2019 - 21:14

Retired doctor loses appeal against sentence for abusing boys

86-year-old man cannot be identified by order of the Court of Appeal

Wed Jul 03 2019 - 14:33

‘Our legal system gave my rapist a free rape,’ survivor tells lawyers

Leona O’Callaghan urges changes to cross-examination in cases of sexual violence

Sun May 26 2019 - 06:00

Real IRA leader who plotted royal visit attack dies in prison

Seamus McGrane (64) planned to carry out explosion during Prince Charles’s 2015 trip

Sat May 25 2019 - 20:07

Man jailed for raping woman at gaming convention has sentence upheld

Keith Hearne (30) claimed judge did not take his psychiatric illnesses into account

Mon May 13 2019 - 16:58

Ex-soldier refused extra time to appeal abuse sentence

Timothy O’Sullivan (67) jailed for 11 years for grooming and raping two boys in 1990s

Fri Mar 22 2019 - 15:30

Dublin man jailed for five years for IRA membership

FBI agent uncovered Dublin-based plot to buy a grenade, handgun and Semtex online

Mon Oct 22 2018 - 14:44