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The vacancy arose following the retirement of Justice Garrett Sheehan in March.
Ciaran Nally was jailed for three years for possession of cocaine for sale or supply in Drogheda in April 2015.
The 47-year-old man’s consecutive sentences have been reduced from nine years to seven.
The 25-year-old added sugar to the water to increase its boiling point.
The Court of Appeals has said it “would not be in the public interest” to send 19-year-old Eric Ryan to prison eight months after his initial sentencing.
The High Court had ruled in 2015 that Sergey Chesnokov had established he was born on Dublin’s Henrietta Street.
Aurimas Andruska’s appeal was dismissed on all grounds today.
Murphy was sentenced to 18 months in prison last February.
58-year-old Ron Tulie carried on a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old girl after giving a fire safety course at her school.
Tezaur Bita is alleged to have parked his car on the Old Nangor Road in the early hours of 27 August 2015 and relieved himself in bushes.
Judge Keenan Johnson sentenced Finbarr O’Rourke to seven-and-a-half years imprisonment at Portlaoise Circuit Criminal Court on November 3, 2015.
White had been prevented from doing by a Bar Council rule that restricts the type of work former judges can perform.
Donna Hutch was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment in June 2015 for attempting to stab a Garda with a syringe.
The Court of Appeal has upheld a ruling that allows the semi-state to operate the service.
The Court of Appeal quashed the District court ruling today.
Anthony O’Sullivan has had his sentence reduced from five to four years at the Court of Appeal.
John and Wayne Dundon open appeals against their convictions this week in the Court of Appeal.
Tiarnan O’Mahoney (56) and Bernard Daly (67) were handed prison sentences last year.
Evelyn Joel’s daughter and her partner were charged with manslaughter and convicted of unlawful killing by neglect.
The European Court of Human Rights made a dramatic intervention in proceedings this evening.
The Court of Appeal unanimously declared he should stand trial.
He had pleaded not guilty in court.
Darren Murphy faces a possible retrial.
The victim had stated that he considers himself disabled and will “never be the same again”.
Sean Casey (27) had originally been sentenced to seven years in prison.
The judgment means a person who is being pursued by a bank for a debt is entitled to make full representations to the court.
Patrick Bassett was sentenced to four years in prison in May of last year. The assaults date back to the 1970s.
The injured party had been “permanently disfigured” as a result of the attack, the judge said.
They contend the jury should have been allowed to consider the HSE’s alleged culpability in the death of immobile MS sufferer Evelyn Joel.
He had been living with his partner at the time, and a date had been fixed for their wedding.
Lenders have been accused of “changing the goal posts against the consumer” on variable mortgages.
The 54-year-old man pleaded not guilty to 60 counts of sexual assault of six sisters between 1994 and 2005.
One man is to appeal last week’s rejection of his challenge.
Dundon was found guilty by the Special Criminal Court of threatening Alice Collins that he would kill or cause serious harm to her sons.
The judge said he was taking the “significant contribution” the convicted man made to his community into account.
Christopher Wiggins maintains the boat ‘Dances with Waves’ was not in Irish territorial waters.
There were numerous legal arguments that Dwyer’s legal team could argue are grounds for appeal.
Judgement won’t be made until April 15.
Ecstasy, ketamine, magic mushrooms and crystal meth (etc. etc.) will be illegal to possess once again, from midnight.
Emergency legislation is needed after a court ruling this morning. Here’s what happened…