The Irish Times

Man has charges dropped of sexually assaulting schoolgirl on Luas

Judge rules informal identification by teenager not carried out in fair way by gardaí

Mon Feb 14 2022 - 22:50

Woman ‘forever scarred’ after sexual assault aged 12 by mother’s partner

Waterford resident Dean Hurley (51) jailed for three years over abuse

Mon Dec 13 2021 - 15:56

Disqualified driver jailed over high-speed Garda pursuit

Kenneth Williams (38) drove on footpath and against oncoming traffic during chase, court heard

Fri Dec 10 2021 - 16:51

IT worker should have been jailed for child abuse images, court hears

Robert Traynor (54) downloaded and produced thousands of child abuse images

Thu Nov 11 2021 - 19:17

Suspended sentence for former League of Ireland footballer caught with €14,000 cannabis

Jake Kelly (31) was caught with drugs in his car

Tue Nov 09 2021 - 17:50

Man jailed for ‘persistent, nasty and insidious’ abuse of his nieces

Patrick Caffrey sentenced to three years in prison for sexually assaulting four girls

Wed Nov 03 2021 - 10:07

Man who failed to pay over €120,000 in tax receives suspended sentence

Sole trader Mark Aspland began to ‘bury his head in the sand’, court hears

Mon Nov 01 2021 - 18:15

Serial sex attacker loses appeal against sentence for random assaults

Slawomir Gierlowski (37) handed 18-and-a-half-year term in 2018 for three violent attacks

Tue Jul 27 2021 - 13:11

Boy who broke elbow falling from bouncy castle awarded €40,000

Rean Jay Cabangal had been attending after-lunch play-around in hotel when he fell

Mon Jul 12 2021 - 13:39

Former League of Ireland footballer receives suspended sentence on drugs charge

Adrian Bajgora caught in possession of €46,000 worth of cocaine, and other drugs

Fri Jul 02 2021 - 15:52

Disqualified driver jailed after crashing into car carrying woman and child

Graham Campion (27) was banned from driving for 14 years before incident in Tallaght

Wed Jun 16 2021 - 16:50

Man lived under false name for eight years

Chinese national who used false name was ‘model citizen in all but name’, court hears

Wed Apr 21 2021 - 19:08

Former League of Ireland footballer Keith Quinn jailed for four years

Dubliner (32) with a gambling addiction caught moving over €2.7m worth of heroin

Wed Apr 14 2021 - 18:30

Man receives suspended sentence after pleading guilty to assaulting garda

Court hears man slapped and bit garda while she assisted him after he had a seizure

Tue Apr 13 2021 - 13:57

Man gets suspended sentence for using fake documents to try secure a mortgage

Judge said court has to protect the integrity of loan applications

Mon Apr 12 2021 - 22:07

Man jailed after hiding €115,000 of heroin in vacuum cleaner

Gardaí found cannabis, diamorphine, tick list, weighing scales and gloves during house search

Mon Mar 22 2021 - 16:06

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

Sentencing adjourned for man who threatened partner during lockdown

Court told off-duty garda saw the man with a knife through the window of his house

Tue Mar 16 2021 - 15:33

Suspended sentence for man who obtained fake passports to hide drink-driving offence

Man secured passports with documents of other individual with same name, court heard

Tue Mar 16 2021 - 12:47

Man sentenced to five years in prison for cutting other man’s hair, false imprisonment

Man strip searched during incident as others thought he had drugs, court hears

Mon Mar 15 2021 - 15:12

Former bank worker caught with explicit images of children avoids jail

Man (54) given 2½-year suspended sentence after pleading guilty to possessing 1,900 images

Fri Mar 12 2021 - 14:55

Bar manager had ‘stomach churning’ files of children being sexually abused

Apartment was searched and gardaí discovered laptop contained 22 images and 13 videos of children being abused

Thu Mar 04 2021 - 22:13

Terenure College to face legal claims from abused past pupils

John McClean travelled on schoolboy team Australia tour after abuse reported

Fri Feb 19 2021 - 01:00

Former Terenure teacher admitted sex abuse 20 years before Garda inquiry

Sentencing hearing for John McClean (76), who indecently assaulted pupils at Dublin school

Thu Feb 11 2021 - 17:15

Father of three jailed for submitting false documents in mortgage application

‘Fairly sophisticated offence’ for which there has to be a deterrent, says judge

Wed Feb 03 2021 - 18:24

Man jailed for attacking ex-partner and throwing brick through window

Paul O’Shea punched, kicked and dragged woman out into garden of her Dublin home

Fri Dec 18 2020 - 17:17

Gardaí chased man driving quad bike on wrong side of road into Áras grounds

Father of three jailed for four years for dangerous driving and attacking elderly man

Fri Dec 18 2020 - 16:39

Civil cases filed against Terenure College over past child abuse

Former school rugby coach admitted sexually abusing 23 boys in 1970s and 1980s

Mon Nov 23 2020 - 12:14

Terenure College apologises after former rugby coach pleads guilty to indecent assault

John McClean (75) admitted to sexually abusing 23 males in the 1970s and 1980s

Tue Nov 03 2020 - 10:33

Man jailed for eight years over ‘tsunami’ of crimes in Tallaght

William Nolan ‘off his head on drugs’ when he endangered lives of two gardaí, court hears

Tue Apr 28 2020 - 18:31

Man on trial for sexual assault of four children in Leinster creche

29-year-old has pleaded not guilty to all 23 counts of assaulting girls

Tue Feb 04 2020 - 17:34

Woman prosecuted for child porn she innocently received on WhatsApp

Accused deleted message after she realised it was ‘sinister’ but video remained on phone

Tue Feb 04 2020 - 12:42

Family of man killed in one punch assault says lives were ‘ripped apart’

Patrick Mullally died after intervening in ‘domestic’ row involving a martial arts instructor

Mon Jan 27 2020 - 15:41

Gardaí under strain over child pornography workload, court hears

Comments made during sentencing of man for possessing images of children being raped

Wed Dec 18 2019 - 17:51