# kevin-lunney - Wednesday 4 August, 2021
# Special Criminal Court
# Special Criminal Court
A defence barrister said the actions of suspect ‘YZ’ are “suspicious” but do not lead to the conclusion he tortured Kevin Lunney.
# kevin-lunney - Friday 16 July, 2021
# Evening Fix
# Evening Fix
Here’s your round-up of what made the headlines today.
# Kevin Lunney
# Kevin Lunney
Four men are being tried for false imprisonment and intentionally causing serious harm.
# kevin-lunney - Thursday 15 July, 2021
# Quinn Industrial Holdings
# Quinn Industrial Holdings
The Special Criminal Court heard that wounds to Kevin Lunney’s face required 24 stitches.
# kevin-lunney - Wednesday 23 June, 2021
# Kevin Lunney
# Kevin Lunney
The court heard that footage was gathered from Cavan, Monaghan, Westmeath and Dublin by gardaí.
# kevin-lunney - Tuesday 22 June, 2021
# Challenge
# Challenge
The man has previously brought judicial review proceedings challenging the Special Criminal Court’s jurisdiction to hear his trial.
# kevin-lunney - Friday 18 June, 2021
# Quinn Industrial Holdings
# Quinn Industrial Holdings
The Special Criminal Court heard today that the man made the request after one of his son’s died.
# kevin-lunney - Thursday 17 June, 2021
# Courts
# Courts
The trial continues in front of Justice Tony Hunt, presiding, and Judge Gerard Griffin and Judge David McHugh.
# kevin-lunney - Tuesday 15 June, 2021
# Phone Data
# Phone Data
The judges will decide on the admissability of the phone evidence next week.
# kevin-lunney - Saturday 12 June, 2021
# Week 2
# Week 2
Gardaí had given evidence about obtaining search warrants for phone records in relation to their investigation.
# kevin-lunney - Friday 11 June, 2021
# Special Criminal Court
# Special Criminal Court
O’Higgins said the material gardaí uncovered should be ruled inadmissible because it was unlawfully obtained.
# kevin-lunney - Wednesday 9 June, 2021
# Special Criminal Court
# Special Criminal Court
Counsel for one of the accused said there was an “information deficit” in the application for a warrant for phone records.
# kevin-lunney - Tuesday 8 June, 2021
# QIH Trial
# QIH Trial
Lunney told the court that he was bundled into the boot of a car and driven to a container where he was threatened and told to resign from QIH.
# kevin-lunney - Friday 4 June, 2021
# Courts
# Courts
The man said he was “definitely not” involved in the dispute over Quinn Industrial Holdings.
# kevin-lunney - Thursday 3 June, 2021
# Special Criminal Court
# Special Criminal Court
He was giving evidence at the trial of four men accused of falsely imprisoning him and causing him serious harm.
# kevin-lunney - Tuesday 1 June, 2021
# Courts
# Courts
Counsel argued the court has become a “permanent and perpetual” structure that is not permitted by the legislation that brought it into existence.
# kevin-lunney - Monday 31 May, 2021
# Trial
# Trial
Sean Guerin SC told the court that a matter of law must be dealt with before the trial can go ahead.
# kevin-lunney - Friday 21 May, 2021
# Qih
# Qih
The case had originally been fixed for trial on 11 January at the non-jury court.
# kevin-lunney - Friday 19 March, 2021
# Cavan Circuit Court
# Cavan Circuit Court
James Bernard McGovern, 24, appeared at Cavan Circuit Court on Friday.
# kevin-lunney - Tuesday 5 January, 2021
# Quinn Industrial Holdings
# Quinn Industrial Holdings
The case had been fixed for trial on 11 January at the Special Criminal Court.
# kevin-lunney - Monday 7 December, 2020
# Qih
# Qih
The Special Criminal Court today refused an application from the defence to adjourn the 12-week trial.
# kevin-lunney - Thursday 26 November, 2020
# Special Criminal Court
# Special Criminal Court
Lunney (50) was abducted close to his home in Co Fermanagh on the evening of 17 September 2019.
# kevin-lunney - Tuesday 17 November, 2020
# Special Criminal Court
# Special Criminal Court
Lawyers for one of the accused claim the law on the retention and accessing of mobile phone data is in “a state of significant uncertainty” in Ireland.
# kevin-lunney - Monday 2 November, 2020
# Quinn Industrial Holdings
# Quinn Industrial Holdings
The defendants have brought High Court challenges against the Special Criminal Court’s jurisdiction to try the matter.
# kevin-lunney - Monday 7 September, 2020
# Courts
# Courts
Alan O’Brien is the second of the four accused men to challenge the SCC’s jurisdiction to hear the trial.
# kevin-lunney - Wednesday 10 June, 2020
# Courts
# Courts
The non-jury court heard this morning that the trial will commence on Monday 21 January 2021.
# kevin-lunney - Tuesday 28 April, 2020
# Special Criminal Court
# Special Criminal Court
Luke O’Reilly of Kilcogy, Co Cavan and Darren Redmond of East Wall, Dublin are charged with false imprisonment and assault causing serious harm.
# kevin-lunney - Monday 20 April, 2020
# Courts
# Courts
The abduction trial is expected to begin in January 2021.
# kevin-lunney - Thursday 12 March, 2020
# Arrest
# Arrest
The man is being held at Cavan Garda Station.
# kevin-lunney - Friday 6 March, 2020
# Fermanagh
# Fermanagh
The two men and one woman were detained in the Fermanagh area by the PSNI on Thursday.
# kevin-lunney - Thursday 5 March, 2020
# Qih
# Qih
Three of the arrests were made by the PSNI, and Gardaí arrested the fourth person, who is being detained in Cavan.
# kevin-lunney - Thursday 19 December, 2019
# Kevin Lunney
# Kevin Lunney
The three men were charged with assault causing harm and false imprisonment.
# kevin-lunney - Wednesday 18 December, 2019
# Kevin Lunney
# Kevin Lunney
In September, QIH director Kevin Lunney was taken from near his home and assaulted.
# kevin-lunney - Tuesday 3 December, 2019
# Qih
# Qih
The four men were remanded to appear next Friday 13 December.
# kevin-lunney - Tuesday 26 November, 2019
# Qih
# Qih
The four men were arrested last week in the ongoing probe.
# kevin-lunney - Thursday 21 November, 2019
# Qih
# Qih
Four men have been arrested today.
# kevin-lunney - Wednesday 20 November, 2019
# Qih
# Qih
Chief constable Simon Byrne said that the attack on Kevin Lunney was a “truly horrific crime”.
# kevin-lunney - Monday 18 November, 2019
# Oliver O’Reilly
# Oliver O’Reilly
A cross-border police investigation into the incident is underway.
# Kevin Lunney
# Kevin Lunney
McGuinness collapsed while police searched a house he was staying in on 8 November.
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