Tue, 30 Jun, 2020
Sat, 09 May, 2020
Tue, 03 Mar, 2020
The DPP appealed the leniency of a fully suspended jail term being given to a garda in Cork on corruption charges but the Court of Appeal decided yesterday that it would not alter the two-year sentence.
Thu, 05 Dec, 2019
The Hunger is billed as an opera, but its composer, Donnacha Dennehy, prefers to call it a “docu-cantata”.
Wed, 21 Aug, 2019
Donnacha O’Dennehy’s opera looks at a surprisingly neglected era, writes Alan O’Riordan.
Mon, 19 Aug, 2019
Ray Scannell was inspired by his own tribulations in the rental sector to write a play about a man who moves back in with his parents, says Colette Sheridan.
Mon, 03 Jun, 2019
A 63-year-old man gave evidence yesterday in the trial of a man half his age who is accused of raping and sexually assaulting him when he was on a blanket at the side of the street in Cork.
Wed, 22 May, 2019
Tomasz Wasowicz, 45, and Marcin Skrzypezyk, 31, are on trial charged with the murder of Ludovit Pasztor, 40, on February 21, 2017 at the Amber filling station at Carrrignagroghera, Fermoy.
Fri, 10 May, 2019
One of the two men who denies murder at a filling station in Fermoy said he was in no fight but intervened when his friend was being attacked and admitted hitting one of the men with a ‘stick’ once in the lower back and once in the shoulder.
Wed, 08 May, 2019
One single blow from a large iron bar to the back of a man’s head was likely to have been the cause of death, a pathologist has testified in the Fermoy murder trial.
Tue, 07 May, 2019
An eyewitness in a Co Cork murder trial testified yesterday seeing two men on the ground at the Amber Service Station in Fermoy being struck by another pair standing over them with what looked like iron bars.
Sat, 04 May, 2019
An eyewitness in the Fermoy murder trial testified today seeing two men on the ground at the Amber Service Station in Fermoy being struck by another pair standing over them with what looked like iron bars.
Fri, 03 May, 2019
A young man who denied murdering his mother thinking he was setting her free from the cruelty of life was found guilty of murder yesterday.
Thu, 21 Jun, 2018
A man who denies murdering his girlfriend was categorised by the prosecution as a controlling individual who committed murder in a jealous rage but the defence claimed he felt provoked and lost control.
Fri, 15 Jun, 2018
The man accused of murdering his girlfriend at her home in Passage West, Co Cork, more than five years ago told gardaí that he snapped, stabbed her in the neck, and set fire to the house.
Fri, 01 Jun, 2018
An 81-year-old company director who failed to pay almost €340,000 in Vat returns which had been paid to his company by customers was given a two-and-a-half-year suspended jail sentence yesterday.
Fri, 18 May, 2018
The jury in a case where a woman was seriously injured by loose bars from a passing trailer found the driver not guilty of dangerous driving causing serious harm but guilty of failing to take adequate precaution with the load.
Thu, 17 May, 2018
The motorist on trial for dangerous driving causing serious injury to a neighbour saluted her the moment before she was struck across the legs by long iron bars that had gone sideways on his trailer.
Wed, 16 May, 2018
Man, 74, directed to be found not guilty on 36 sex assault charges.
Thu, 26 Apr, 2018
The mother of a young man killed while travelling as a passenger in a stolen car eight years ago has been awarded €72,000.
Thu, 19 Apr, 2018
A motorist stopped in a line of traffic in Castlemartyr suffered a serious back injury when his car was rear-ended by a Ford Transit van where the van driver had fallen asleep. Yesterday he was awarded over €116,000 in compensation.
Wed, 18 Apr, 2018
A woman brought a case against the Navy to the High Court arising out of injuries she suffered during a simulation of an emergency at sea.
Thu, 12 Apr, 2018
An American doctor wept in court as he spoke of his oath to do no harm in a case where he admitted that his dangerous driving caused the death of a woman visiting Cork to see her first grandchild.
Thu, 09 Nov, 2017
A Cork man drove aggressively through a red light killing a French man in Cork city, then drove off and fled the country, and today he was jailed for eight years and banned from driving for 40 years.
Fri, 27 Oct, 2017
Sat, 19 Aug, 2017
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Wed, 21 Jun, 2017
Futureproof may be set in a circus freak show, but its themes of bodily autonomy have obvious echoes in the wider world, writes Colette Sheridan
Mon, 12 Jun, 2017
A talented actress has been forced to withdraw from her biggest Irish stage role after suffering a concussion in a freak fidget spinner accident.
Wed, 31 May, 2017
The former principal of a gaelscoil was given a suspended one-year prison sentence yesterday for overstating the numbers of children enrolled in the school so as to get higher grants for the benefit of the school and the pupils.
Tue, 30 May, 2017
Sat, 13 May, 2017
A High Court judge “unfairly disparaged” Marie Farrell, a key witness for Ian Bailey, during Mr Bailey’s civil case for damages against the Garda commissioner and State, the Court of Appeal has been told.
Wed, 29 Mar, 2017
Thu, 22 Dec, 2016
A young woman has described how she was violated and treated like a rag doll when a fellow party-goer raped her while she lay comatose on a bed.
Tue, 20 Dec, 2016
Mon, 19 Dec, 2016
Wed, 14 Dec, 2016
Thu, 24 Nov, 2016
A store security man awaiting sentencing for two robberies carried out two further robberies — one in Midleton and the other in Youghal — and also squeezed in a fortnight’s holiday in Turkey with his girlfriend.
Wed, 23 Nov, 2016
Sat, 12 Nov, 2016
The lawyer for a man accused of murdering his fellow Cork Prison inmate by stabbing him in the chest, has told a jury that “fear is at the heart of this case”.
Wed, 26 Oct, 2016
A man who said black magic was responsible for him raping and sexually assaulting his daughter has been jailed for six years at Dublin Central Criminal Court.
Sat, 30 Jul, 2016
A Kerry man who twice raped a 73-year-old woman after breaking into her home and leaving her “waiting for death” has been jailed for 13 years.
Tue, 26 Jul, 2016
A man given eight years for seriously assaulting his wife, who refused to give evidence against him at trial, is to appeal his conviction in July.
Wed, 08 Jun, 2016
A 83-year-old priest who was put on trial on charges of indecently assaulting a boy in a school sickbed in the 1970s was found not guilty on both charges yesterday.
Fri, 03 Jun, 2016
An 82-year-old priest was accused yesterday of indecently assaulting a boy in a school sickbed in the 1970s. He denied it and said he acted like a father to all the boys.
Thu, 02 Jun, 2016
A Kerry man who twice raped a 74-year-old woman after breaking into her home left “the victim sobbing uncontrollably like a small child, broken, terrorised and waiting for death”.
Thu, 26 May, 2016
An eight-year jail sentence was imposed yesterday on a Cork man who dragged his wife out of bed by her ponytail and then threw her and kicked her down the stairs leaving her with catastrophic life-changing injuries.
Tue, 10 May, 2016
A 28-year-old woman confessed yesterday to the manslaughter of two men who died in a house fire in Mallow in north Cork almost two years ago, and she also pleaded guilty to arson.
Wed, 20 Apr, 2016
A Polish carpenter who had two fingers cut off by an industrial saw during the construction of the Limerick tunnel continues to suffer stress and social anxiety about the disfigurement of his hand, a doctor said at the High Court yesterday.
Wed, 06 Apr, 2016
A carpenter working on the construction of Limerick tunnel in 2008 had two fingers cut off in an industrial saw and yesterday he began a High Court action.
Tue, 05 Apr, 2016
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