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# sentenced - Tuesday 21 January, 2020
China's former Interpol chief Meng Hongwei sentenced to 13 years in prison
At his trial last June, Meng pleaded guilty to accepting $2.1 million in bribes.
# sentenced - Tuesday 7 January, 2020
Father of UK's most prolific serial rapist says his son's sentence 'fits his crimes'
The 36-year-old went out in the early hours of the morning, hunting for lone, drunk young men around nightclubs near his flat.
# sentenced - Monday 9 December, 2019
UK serial rapist Joseph McCann given 33 life sentences for horrific attacks
Convicted burglar McCann (34) had been freed after a UK probation service error.
# sentenced - Saturday 9 November, 2019
Teenager who murdered his girlfriend after she dumped him is sentenced to life in UK court
He returned to school after the murder and the girl’s father discovered her four hours later.
# sentenced - Wednesday 6 November, 2019
'You will be given a chance to reconstruct your life - I hope you take it': The convictions of Boy A and B
“Her family must bear their grief. You will be given a chance to reconstruct your life – I hope you take it.”
# sentenced - Thursday 17 October, 2019
Actress Felicity Huffman starts prison sentence in college admissions scam
The Oscar nominee was the first of more than 30 parents sentenced.
# sentenced - Thursday 19 September, 2019
Man (26) jailed in first UK conviction for firearms manufacture using a 3D printer
Tendai Muswere was sentenced today to three years imprisonment.
Man sentenced to 13 years in prison over rape of two women in Belfast
The attack took place at a flat in south Belfast on 25 November 2017.
# sentenced - Wednesday 14 August, 2019
US rapper A$AP Rocky convicted of assault in Sweden
The rapper was given a suspended sentence.
# sentenced - Friday 9 August, 2019
Men jailed in US after leaving Donegal man to die on grandmother's lawn
Liam McGlinchey (19) was left in a dangerously intoxicated state in New York in August 2017.
# sentenced - Thursday 18 July, 2019
Man (57) who spied on children in public toilets using hidden cameras is jailed
Kieran Griffin was sentenced to a total of three years in prison for a range of sexual offences.
# sentenced - Wednesday 17 July, 2019
Drug kingpin Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman sentenced to life in US prison
Guzman, the 62-year-old former co-leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel, was convicted in February.
# sentenced - Friday 21 June, 2019
Man (54) sentenced to seven years in prison for raping 11-year-old boy
Anthony Moynihan of Croccane, Rostellan, Midleton was sentenced in his absence after he failed to appear at the Central Criminal Court today.
# sentenced - Wednesday 12 June, 2019
Ex-football coach Bob Higgins jailed for 24 years for abusing boys
He was convicted of 45 offences of indecent assault on 23 May 2019.
# sentenced - Saturday 25 May, 2019
Wisconsin man sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping 13-year-old and killing her parents
Jake Patterson (21) pleaded guilty to two counts of intentional homicide and one count of kidnapping.
# sentenced - Thursday 16 May, 2019
Man who was cleared of murdering former soldier is jailed for stabbing another man on same night
Gary Watson was convicted by a jury last February.
# sentenced - Tuesday 26 March, 2019
Man sentenced to minimum 9 years in prison for murder of Syrian national
Callin Wilson (20), currently of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty to the murder of Hazem Ahmed Ghreir.
# sentenced - Saturday 16 March, 2019
Banned hit-and-run driver who seriously injured cyclist jailed for five years
Jonathan Wainyae pleaded guilty to causing serious bodily injury.
# sentenced - Thursday 14 March, 2019
Student who engaged in 'extreme bullying' escapes conviction but told to donate €1,000 to poor box
The victim was stamped upon and repeatedly beaten by older pupils at the school.
# sentenced - Wednesday 13 March, 2019
Trump's ex-campaign chief Manafort sentenced to three and half more years in prison
His is the highest profile case yet stemming from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.
# sentenced - Tuesday 5 March, 2019
Man who trapped and attacked woman in laneway jailed for five years
Chico Makamda has 15 previous convictions, including for an offence of indecency.
# sentenced - Friday 1 March, 2019
London rapper who bragged about drug possession jailed for five years for drug possession
Adetokunbo Ajibola, otherwise known by his stage name Trapstar Toxic, admitted possessing cocaine and cannabis.
# sentenced - Friday 22 February, 2019
Man sentenced after robbing shop and threatening to stab worker with red liquid-filled syringe
Rooney Dignam entered the shop on the day in question and told the worker to open the till or he would stab her.
# sentenced - Wednesday 20 February, 2019
Former deputy principal jailed for 18 months for possessing and distributing child abuse images
Brian Fitzgerald (49) of Golf Links Road, Youghal, Co Cork pleaded guilty at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.
Judge jails 48-year-old homeless man who called priest a 'motherf**ker'
The man had pleaded guilty to a public order charge arising from the incident.
# sentenced - Friday 15 February, 2019
Garda jailed for two years for possession of child abuse images
Joseph O’Connor (58) of west Dublin had pleaded not guilty.
# sentenced - Tuesday 12 February, 2019
Man jailed for seven years after smuggling €1.2 million worth of heroin into Dublin airport
Mudassar Khan’s bags were searched and customs official found 13kg of heroin wrapped up in one suitcase.
# sentenced - Monday 11 February, 2019
Man who travelled from UK to Dublin to have sex with teenage girl sentenced to five years in jail
Justice Paul Coffey said the defendant was controlling, possessive and manipulative.
# sentenced - Friday 1 February, 2019
Man jailed for 18 years over €92k robbery in which three women were abducted from home
Three women were tied up and abducted during the 2014 incident.
# sentenced - Monday 28 January, 2019
Family 'devastated' at six year sentence for man who killed taxi driver
Martin Mulligan was stabbed to death by Joseph Hillen on 28 September 2015.
# sentenced - Friday 21 December, 2018
'A despicable act': Two men sentenced in Derry over murder of Paul McCauley
McCauley was attacked at a friend’s barbecue in the early hours of 16 July 2006.
# sentenced - Wednesday 19 December, 2018
Former 'singing' priest jailed for 3½ years for indecent assault
Tony Walsh is currently serving a seven and a half year sentence for raping another boy three times in the 1980s.
# sentenced - Tuesday 18 December, 2018
Couple who named their son after Hitler sentenced to prison for membership of banned right-wing group
The pair were members of the banned group National Action.
Father of boy (6) killed after being struck by van says the family forgive the driver
The family of the boy told the man that they forgave him .
# sentenced - Wednesday 12 December, 2018
Jailed former Trump lawyer says he felt he was duty-bound 'to cover up his dirty deeds'
Michael Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison.
Irish woman who killed her fiance in Sydney jailed for eight years
Cathrina Cahill fatally stabbed her fiance David Walsh in February 2017.
# sentenced - Monday 3 December, 2018
Man who left pensioner lying “helpless” on the ground after robbing her handbag jailed
Anthony Graham pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to robbing then 81-year-old Rita Murphy.
# sentenced - Friday 2 November, 2018
Nicklas Bendtner sentenced to 50 days in prison for assaulting taxi driver
The former Arsenal striker has appealed the decision.
# sentenced - Monday 15 October, 2018
Man who helped criminal organisation murder Sunset House manager sentenced
Michael Barr was shot seven times by a masked gunman on 25 April 2016.
# sentenced - Friday 21 September, 2018
Woman who shared clip of dying boyfriend on social media jailed for 14 years
Fatima Khan was sentenced at the Old Bailey where she was previously found guilty of orchestrating the killing of Khalid Safi.
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Poll: Do you prefer sunshine or rainy days?
WELL, IT’S BEEN a week of blue skies across the country, with little rain in sight.
While it’s forecast to be colder over the weekend than in recent days, conditions, for the most part, are due to remain dry and sunny.
Temperatures today are to range between 9 and 15 degrees.
With little to no rain in sight at the moment, we’re wondering – are you itching for a rainy day? Or are you loving the sunshine?
So, today we want to know: Do you prefer sunshine or rainy days?
Poll Results:
Sunshine, definitely (9354)
I like both (1671)
Rain, for sure (728)
I actually prefer snow more than anything (496)
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By Larry Donnelly - @LarryPDonnelly
The Kennedy vs Markey battle is the distraction from Covid-19 we all need, says Larry Donnelly.
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