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Place: Special Criminal Court

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<p>Court artist sketch of Jonathan Dowdall being cross examined during the trial at the Special Criminal Court, Dublin. Picture: PA</p>

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<p class="contextmenu internal_Caption"> Mary Lou Mc Donald could not say whether she would attend a fundraising event again, knowing Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch would be there. Picture: Moya Nolan</p>

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‘I'm a law-abiding, honourable person,’ says McDonald
<p>A heavy security presence was evident at the Special Criminal Court where former Sinn Féin Councillor Jonathan Dowdall was cross-examined in the trial of Gerry Hutch for the murder of David Byrne in 2016.</p>

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 The trial of four men who deny falsely imprisoning and causing serious harm to Quinn Industrial Holdings Director Kevin Lunney will hear CCTV, DNA, phone location data and other circumstantial evidence from about 250 witnesses, a barrister told the ...

Wed, 02 Jun, 2021

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 A care worker who transported more than €600,000 in cash should "devote herself" to her son after she was given a fully suspended sentence by the Special Criminal Court this morning.

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