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# court services

Dublin City and County Courts set for first overhaul in decades

With no change, the Court Services said they will have to cut back services.

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Jun 4th 2014, 3:10 PM

# Data privacy

Judicial review of Facebook data case to begin in High Court tomorrow

The Europe V Facebook group launched the action last year after the Irish Data Protection Commissioner decided not to investigate Facebook over its involvement in the NSA’s PRISM surveillance program.

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Apr 28th 2014, 11:42 AM

# PHOBIA

Dead rat stench and mice on desks: Woman gets €20k over rodents at work

Amanda Byrne said she had a life-long phobia and was petrified to go to work in case a rat or mouse crossed her path.

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Feb 12th 2014, 9:35 AM

# RIP

Funeral of Tom O'Gorman to be held tomorrow

The removal will take place this evening in Castleknock.

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Jan 23rd 2014, 8:01 AM

# The 9 at 9

The 9 at 9: Saturday

Good morning! Here are nine things you need to know as you start your day.

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Jan 11th 2014, 8:54 AM

# Mark Duggan

Video: Police shouted down after verdict in London riots case

There were angry scenes outside a London court this evening after a jury found that Mark Duggan had been lawfully killed.

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Jan 8th 2014, 10:41 PM

Evening Wrap

The 5 at 5 5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…

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Dec 16th 2013, 4:58 PM

# Legal Battle

HSE paid out over €255m on legal fees since 2005

The legal fees bill reached over €46.5m in 2012, an increase of more than €10 million on 2011.

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Dec 16th 2013, 6:45 AM

# Bankrupt

Sean Dunne fails in bid to overturn bankruptcy

“I am a victim of lots of inaccurate publicity” Sean Dunne is quoted as saying in an email used as evidence in court.

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Dec 6th 2013, 4:24 PM

# Seizure

Cocaine, cannabis, crystal meth and a gun seized in Longford

A man in his 20s is to appear in court today in relation to the seizure.

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Dec 6th 2013, 9:55 AM

# statement in full

Parents of Dylan Gaffney Hayes release statement about €8.5m HSE settlement

The family of Dylan Gaffney Hayes, who suffered catastrophic brain injuries during birth, was awarded a settlement of €8.5 million in the High Court today.

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Nov 29th 2013, 11:05 PM

# Court Case

Charles Saatchi 'has no proof' Nigella Lawson took drugs

Charles Saatchi appeared in court today to give evidence in the trial of sisters Elisabetta and Francesca Grillo.

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Nov 29th 2013, 10:59 PM

# Tweets

Peaches Geldof defends tweeting names of mothers involved in Lostprophets court case

Bob Geldof’s daughter could face charges for the

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Nov 29th 2013, 10:58 AM

# Charged

Man charged in relation to murder investigation in Lixnaw

The 19-year-old will appear in court tomorrow.

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Nov 28th 2013, 10:17 PM

# Aisling Brady McCarthy

Irish nanny charged with murder in Massachusetts to appear in court

Aisling Brady McCarthy, originally from Cavan, has denied all charges against her.

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Nov 19th 2013, 7:18 AM

Evening Wrap

The 5 at 5 5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…

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Nov 11th 2013, 4:55 PM

# Fire Service

‘Accountability and lessons need to be learnt from the deaths of Bray fire men’

The IFESA, local Wicklow councillors and family of the deceased firemen are asking for a full fire service to be rolled out.

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Oct 26th 2013, 7:30 AM

# bray fire officers

Wicklow Council fined €355k over Bray firemen deaths

The local authority pleaded guilty to three charges related to the deaths of Mark O’Shaughnessy and Brian Murray who died fighting a blaze in Bray in 2007. The maximum possible fine was €3 million.

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Oct 25th 2013, 9:50 PM

# Gerry Adams

Adams: 'I've committed no offence, I did the best I could under difficult circumstances'

Gerry Adams today questioned why the police and the social services did not launch an investigation into his niece’s abuse in 1987.

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Oct 21st 2013, 10:23 AM

# brutal attack

Medical team pulled a stone from the back of Natasha McShane's throat

The trauma surgeon who treated Natasha said there three separate lacerations were discovered and there was a lot of blood.

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Oct 18th 2013, 10:25 AM

# Dispute

Berlin museum seeks return of ancient gold tablet taken to US after the Holocaust

The tablet was brought to the US by a Holocaust survivor after surviving the Auschwitz concentration camp.

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Oct 15th 2013, 3:12 PM

# Poll

Poll: Do you think the law should be changed to allow for assisted suicide?

A man in Canada recorded a video eight days before he died asking for the laws on assisted suicide to be changed – what’s your view?

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Sep 26th 2013, 9:23 AM

# Madeleine McCann

Kate McCann in Portuguese court for libel case against police chief

The former detective published a book alleging that Madeleine McCann’s parents were involved in her disappearance from a vacation home in 2007.

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Sep 12th 2013, 3:26 PM

# DNA testing

DNA database is one more tool that will help catch perpetrators, says RCNI

The Rape Crisis Network Ireland welcomes the DNA Database System Bill which will increase the possibility for justice for sexual violence victims.

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Sep 11th 2013, 3:15 PM

# Data Protection

Facebook to pay out for using personal data in adverts

The social network must pay $20 million after an estimated 614,000 Facebook users had their personal details appear in ads on the site.

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Aug 27th 2013, 3:56 PM

# Overcharged

Man writes own credit card contract, sues bank for breaking it

Dmitry Argarkov decided that his made up rates and fees were much more satisfactory than those of his bank.

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Aug 9th 2013, 2:40 PM

# Florida

Slain teen's mother: Screams on 911 call are my son's

17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot dead in February last year.

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Jul 5th 2013, 9:27 PM

# Sydney

Nurse accused of setting fire to nursing home pleads guilty to killing 11 people

Roger Dean, a 37-year-old nurse who worked at the nursing home, pleaded guilty to 11 counts of murders on the first day of his trial.

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May 27th 2013, 10:29 AM

# Italy

Court upholds Berlusconi's tax fraud sentence, seven years after trial first started

The former Italiam Premier is now expected to appeal the ruling in Italy’s highest court.

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May 8th 2013, 8:14 PM

# jesse ryder

Man, 20, pleads guilty to assaulting former Ireland cricketer Jesse Ryder

Ryder was put into an induced coma following the assault outside a Christchurch bar earlier this year.

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May 7th 2013, 9:34 AM

Voices

Column: Decisions in the family courts will be open to scrutiny now the veil has been lifted

Until now, family court proceedings have been heard ‘in camera’ but new legislation will bring more transparency – and more confidence – to the system, writes solicitor Emma Heron.

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Apr 9th 2013, 7:00 AM

Voices

Column: How can lay juries cope with serious fraud cases, like that of Anglo Irish Bank?

With over 24 million documents and a court case that could take over six months, the availability of jurors and their understanding of this complex trial is being flagged by legal professionals. Nuala Haughey explores the future of juries in white collar crime cases.

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Mar 27th 2013, 7:00 AM

Voices

Column: Domestic violence is an issue we're encouraged not to think about in Ireland

Following the horrendous Magdalene revelations, can we continue to pretend to ourselves that abuses aren’t happening right here and now in our society and in our homes, asks Paula McGovern.

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Feb 16th 2013, 7:00 PM

Voices

Column: We owe it to victims to have minimum and mandatory sentencing

The crimes committed against Fiona Doyle and Detective Garda Adrian Donohue deserve sufficient punishment – and the pressure needs to be placed back onto criminals, says criminologist John O’Keefe.

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Jan 30th 2013, 7:00 AM

# Anglo

Pics: Seán FitzPatrick back in court as Anglo trial date set for January 2014

The former chief of the now defunct bank appeared with two other former directors at the Circuit Criminal Court today as a trial date was provisionally set for next year.

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Jan 23rd 2013, 12:11 PM

# Assisted Suicide

'Right to die' challenge to go to the Supreme Court

Marie Fleming, who has multiple sclerosis, is to take her court case to the Supreme Court after she lost a High Court case on the ban on assisted suicide.

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Jan 16th 2013, 6:28 PM

# Court Case

Olympics 100m bottle-thrower 'screamed abuse at Bolt'

The individual in question allegedly threw a plastic beer bottle on to the track shortly before the men’s 100 metres final.

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Jan 3rd 2013, 3:43 PM

# Anglo

Former Anglo Irish Bank to sue auditors who will 'vigorously defend' case

Ernst & Young is being sued over its involvement in the auditing of the former Anglo Irish Bank prior to it being nationalised nearly four years ago.

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Nov 30th 2012, 12:32 PM

# Courts

Frankie Boyle wins £54k in libel case against Daily Mirror

Frankie Boyle won damages over an article in the Daily Mirror which described him as a “racist comedian”.

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Oct 22nd 2012, 5:48 PM

# Famous words

My favourite speech: Owner and CEO of Harmonia, Norah Casey

Continuing our series on TheJournal.ie of public figures’ favourite speeches, a former dragon to the den chooses a speech from the women’s suffrage movement in the US.

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Sep 22nd 2012, 10:30 AM