# sentencing - Monday 27 January, 2020
Judge Elma Sheahan described the parents’ actions as “the most egregious breaches of trust by those who are presumed to protect their infant child”.
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The couple were found guilty following a trial last November.
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# sentencing - Friday 20 December, 2019
Female genital mutilation carries a maximum sentence of up to 14 years in prison.
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# sentencing - Monday 2 December, 2019
Kerry farmer Michael Ferris has had his sentencing increased from five years to nine in the Court of Criminal Appeal.
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Victims Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt had been attending a prisoner rehabilitation conference.
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# sentencing - Friday 8 November, 2019
Mr Justice Paul McDermott would have given careful consideration to the sentences imposed in this difficult case.
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# sentencing - Tuesday 5 November, 2019
Both boys were 13 years of age when they murdered Ana Kriegel in an abandoned house in Lucan in 2018.
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# sentencing - Tuesday 29 October, 2019
The sentencing hearing of Boy A and Boy B is taking place at the Central Criminal Court.
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The boys, now aged 15, were convicted by unanimous jury verdicts earlier this year.
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# sentencing - Friday 25 October, 2019
In a hearing today, Mr Justice Paul McDermott was given psychological and psychiatric reports relating to Boy A and Boy B.
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# sentencing - Friday 12 July, 2019
Judge Patricia Ryan adjourned the case for sentencing in October.
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# sentencing - Friday 5 July, 2019
Joyce Conlon was sentenced to three and a half years in prison.
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# sentencing - Thursday 4 July, 2019
He was found guilty of assault causing harm and engaging in threatening and abusive behaviour.
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# sentencing - Wednesday 19 June, 2019
The two teengers are to be sentenced in four weeks’ time.
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# sentencing - Wednesday 27 March, 2019
John Cash received a three and a half year sentence.
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# sentencing - Monday 25 February, 2019
One victim called it a “good day for me and for all victims of abuse”.
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# sentencing - Friday 8 February, 2019
Kevin Braney was found guilty of the premeditated murder of 35-year-old Peter Butterly.
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# sentencing - Monday 21 January, 2019
The victim told the court she forgives her husband and doesn’t want him to go to prison.
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# sentencing - Thursday 27 December, 2018
‘It is essential, for victims of crime and for society in general, that coherent sentencing policy is developed’, writes Ivana Bacik.
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# sentencing - Monday 19 November, 2018
The 37-year-old will be sentenced next month for two attacks on women he met up with via the dating app.
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# sentencing - Tuesday 30 October, 2018
He has been resentenced to two years imprisonment with 12 months post-release supervision.
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# sentencing - Monday 22 October, 2018
Justice Michael White said that if Kiernan was a younger man the court would be imposed a serious custodial sentence.
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# sentencing - Monday 30 July, 2018
# sentencing - Tuesday 24 July, 2018
Currently there is life imprisonment for a male who is convicted of incest, but the sentence is three to seven years for a woman.
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# sentencing - Thursday 21 June, 2018
The judge described the 2015 murder as “execrable”.
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# sentencing - Tuesday 22 May, 2018
It is hoped that the bill will be at committee stage before the end of the current Dáil term.
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# sentencing - Friday 27 April, 2018
“It’s somewhat bizarre that an area that is so sensitive has so little in the way of guidance for a trial judge.”
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# sentencing - Tuesday 6 March, 2018
John O’Donoghue, aged 38, also distributed illegal images and movies via email.
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# sentencing - Friday 2 March, 2018
Dublin Rape Crisis Centre and Women’s AId have both raised queries about the sentence being reduced on appeal.
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# sentencing - Friday 22 December, 2017
The GRA says there is no comparable occupation where employees are likely to suffer such a debilitating range of injuries while doing their normal duties.
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# sentencing - Tuesday 19 December, 2017
Arthur Collins had been found guilty of 14 counts of assault.
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# sentencing - Tuesday 24 October, 2017
The former high-profile sports journalist pleaded guilty to four counts of grooming and two counts of defilement of a child.
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# sentencing - Tuesday 29 August, 2017
Iulian Enache (31) pleaded guilty to blackmailing Ronan Hughes in a Romanian court last week.
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# sentencing - Wednesday 5 July, 2017
He pleaded guilty to attacking his partner.
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# sentencing - Tuesday 27 June, 2017
The man invited the woman to his house on the pretext of helping him with some painting.
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# sentencing - Wednesday 12 April, 2017
Kosovan national Vesel Jahiri was convicted of Anna’s murder at the Central Criminal Court this afternoon.
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# sentencing - Monday 3 April, 2017
Another man who pleaded guilty to manslaughter has had his sentencing adjourned.
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# sentencing - Tuesday 21 February, 2017
The man is set to be sentenced for sexually assaulting the woman.
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# sentencing - Monday 20 February, 2017
“He will never come back from the ground and she will be out in three years.”
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# sentencing - Thursday 12 January, 2017
He said he began the shoplifting enterprise because had built up heavy debt.
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