# sentence - Thursday 6 May, 2021
# Sentence
From The42
# Sentence
Jarryd Hayne was given a five-year sentence over the sexual assault of a woman at her home in 2018.
# sentence - Friday 22 January, 2021
# Domestic Abuse
# Domestic Abuse
The woman, who is the man’s former partner, said she “might be dead or in a vegetative state” if doctors and gardaí had not intervened.
# sentence - Wednesday 26 August, 2020
# Saga
From The42
# Saga
The Manchester United captain was handed a suspended prison sentence of 21 months and 10 days.
# sentence - Tuesday 19 May, 2020
# Courts
# Courts
Richard Kiely, who had been driving a ‘181-reg Skoda, had been reselling the fuel to help pay a debt
# sentence - Thursday 19 March, 2020
# Weinstein
# Weinstein
The former producer has been sentenced to 23 years in prison.
# sentence - Wednesday 26 February, 2020
# SENTENCE RESTORED
# SENTENCE RESTORED
Mr Justice Peter Charleton said the alteration of the original sentence by the Court of Appeal “did not accord with law”.
# sentence - Thursday 6 June, 2019
# Courts
# Courts
Ms Justice Burns said there was a ‘sense of class’ to the rape case before her.
# sentence - Monday 8 April, 2019
# Manslaughter
# Manslaughter
Robbie Walsh maintained that he had acted in self-defence on the night and had not brought the knife to the scene.
# sentence - Monday 17 December, 2018
# Courts
# Courts
The final 18 months are to be suspended.
# sentence - Thursday 14 June, 2018
# Jailed
# Jailed
Patrick O’Brien pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to 15 counts of sexual assault.
# sentence - Wednesday 13 June, 2018
# Sentence
# Sentence
The customers were described as “robust” and carried out a citizen’s arrest of the man.
# sentence - Thursday 17 May, 2018
# Court Or Appeal
# Court Or Appeal
Peter Hilliard had pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to two counts of sexual assault at a nursing home in Rathfarnham, Dublin between February 2013 and June 2016.
# sentence - Wednesday 2 May, 2018
# Sentenced
# Sentenced
The man was jailed for two-and-a-half years.
# sentence - Saturday 28 April, 2018
# Prison
# Prison
The judge noted that he was a man of considerable abilities but said getting away with crime wasn’t one of them.
# sentence - Friday 16 March, 2018
# Wicklow
# Wicklow
The man was sentenced to 12 years in prison.
# sentence - Friday 2 March, 2018
# Courts
# Courts
Dublin Rape Crisis Centre and Women’s AId have both raised queries about the sentence being reduced on appeal.
# sentence - Monday 19 February, 2018
# Suspended Sentence
# Suspended Sentence
Nikita Murtagh was sentenced to three years in jail backdated and with the remainder suspended.
# sentence - Thursday 25 January, 2018
# Sexual Abuse
# Sexual Abuse
Judge Aquilina cast doubt over Larry Nassar’s apology, telling him ” you still think that somehow you are right”.
# sentence - Monday 15 January, 2018
# Courts
# Courts
Judge Martin Nolan said it was a “despicable” and “cowardly act” but he said he did not believe it merited a jail sentence.
# sentence - Wednesday 8 November, 2017
# Courts
# Courts
66-year-old Donal Colgan was convicted today at his second trial for the murder of David Sheridan in August 2014.
# sentence - Tuesday 7 November, 2017
# Matthew Scully-hicks
# Matthew Scully-hicks
Matthew Scully-Hicks was yesterday convicted of murdering his 18-month-old daughter Elsie, just two weeks after formally adopting her.
# sentence - Monday 31 July, 2017
# Courts
# Courts
He had pleaded not guilty to the murder of Andrew ‘AOD’ O’Donoghue in 2015.
# sentence - Tuesday 27 June, 2017
# Laois
# Laois
The man invited the woman to his house on the pretext of helping him with some painting.
# Tallaght
# Tallaght
The Dublin man used a fake Facebook profile to lure his ex-girlfriend to a hotel room.
# Courts
# Courts
He will be sentenced next week.
# sentence - Thursday 15 June, 2017
# Talbot Street
# Talbot Street
John McDermott attacked Russ Hogan after he caught him observing him watching a woman take money from an ATM.
# sentence - Thursday 25 May, 2017
# Pornhub
# Pornhub
He was deemed suitable for community service work, and so avoided jail.
# sentence - Friday 5 May, 2017
# Limerick
# Limerick
Aurimas Petraska had pleaded guilty to the theft of €150,000 worth of women’s clothes and Chanel products.
# sentence - Monday 24 April, 2017
# Manslaughter
# Manslaughter
Monika Matracka was found not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter.
# sentence - Tuesday 21 February, 2017
# Elor Azaria
# Elor Azaria
A video of the shooting was shared widely online.
# sentence - Friday 17 February, 2017
# Courts
# Courts
64-year-old Anthony Handley had pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to causing the death of a 31-year-old to her daughter in January 2014.
# sentence - Thursday 16 February, 2017
# Dublin District Court
# Dublin District Court
The ex-soldier is already serving a sentence for assaulting his former partner and breaching a barring order.
# sentence - Thursday 19 January, 2017
# Sentence
# Sentence
Mark Bissett’s “bizarre behaviour” happened when he turned violent during a drink and drug fuelled outburst.
# sentence - Wednesday 14 December, 2016
# Solar Bones
# Solar Bones
It has been a massive year for Mike McCormack, and his publishers Tramp Press.
# sentence - Monday 14 November, 2016
# Sentence
# Sentence
The judge acknowledged that the manslaughter conviction had been the correct one as the crime was “clearly not a premeditated killing”.
# sentence - Thursday 6 October, 2016
# Abuse
# Abuse
The man was found guilty and sentenced to nine years imprisonment in 2015.
# sentence - Tuesday 4 October, 2016
# Three Years
# Three Years
The teen was caught on CCTV attacking the Brazilian national.
# sentence - Monday 3 October, 2016
# Courts
# Courts
32-year-old Kieran Cox had failed to make a left-hand turn, hit another parked car, and crashed into a pole before the car burst into flames.
# sentence - Thursday 21 July, 2016
# Assault
# Assault
Denis Leahy of Queen Street, Dublin 7 was charged with attempting to murder Rose Kenny.
# sentence - Saturday 25 June, 2016
# Appeal
# Appeal
James O’Donovan pleaded not guilty to dangerous driving causing the death of Rosana Potts and another woman.