Special Criminal Court

Court of Appeal president Mr Justice George Birmingham said that when he first read the appellant’s submissions, his first reaction was that Dowdall had done “extraordinarily well”

Minister for Justice to seek Cabinet approval for review of report on future of Special Criminal Court, majority and minority reports to be published on Tuesday

One-third of Government-appointed review group believe the non-jury court is no longer justified

Public representatives and NGOs need time to analyse recommendations, says Irish Council for Civil Liberties

Special Criminal Court declined to order the State pay Mr Hutch’s costs for 52-day trial, likely to top €500,000

Anthony Glynn pleaded guilty earlier this year to having hundreds of rounds of various ammunition and €1.4 million in drugs for the Kinahan

Gardaí are unaware if gangland figure is moving permanently or travelling to manage substantial assets in Costa del Sol

Brendan Treanor and James Flynn deny involvement in 2013 Co Louth incident that resulted in death of detective

Closing speeches being delivered in Special Criminal Court trial of Brendan Treanor and James Flynn

Mr Hutch is seeking his legal costs and the hearing on the application has been adjourned until June

Barry Young (38) pleaded guilty to directing gang in drug dealing, intimidation and money laundering

Prosecutor says Brendan Treanor’s tattoo featuring guns and gangsters a ‘pictorial admission’ of role in 2013 incident

Caolan Smyth (30) and Gary McAreavey (55) are asking the court to quash their convictions and to reject phone data as inadmissible

Appeals are likely to have implications for any potential Supreme Court appeal by Graham Dwyer

Minority opinion in favour of abolition may be awkward for Government which believes non-jury court still needed

Prof Liz Campbell: Our history of responding to paramilitary violence has enabled the normalisation of this extraordinary form of criminal trial

Review may favour reform of non-jury court rather than abolition

Many were surprised a murder charge was pursued against Hutch, who is now free after a 13-week trial

A spokesperson for Minister for Justice told The Irish Times that Department of Justice and the Minister were aware of the incident

For some of his victims, the view of Gerard Hutch as a Robin Hood figure is hard to stomach but there is a different view in Dublin’s north inner city

Officers face major challenge to ensure security of former SF councillor’s family for years to come

People say they are pleased for ‘very, very well-liked’ former neighbour who supported local boxing club and ran parties for ‘old folks’

In the News podcast with Bernice Harrison

Sinn Féin must explain how suspicions about Jonathan Dowdall were kept from the party’s public leadership

As Special Criminal Court acquitted Gerry Hutch, its ruling said the evidence might be used to conclude his brother, Patsy Hutch, organised the Regency Hotel attack

Analysis: For many, it beggars belief that, in advance of the most high-profile organised crime trial in decades, tracking data relating to Gerry Hutch was deleted

Analysis: Decision suggests courts increasingly unhappy about convicting solely on accomplice/protected witness evidence

Two co-accused convicted on lesser charges of facilitating the Regency attack by providing getaway vehicles

In the News podcast with Bernice Harrison

Hutch denies murder of David Byrne at Regency Hotel in Dublin in 2016

Douglas ‘Oscar’ Glynn (37) is already serving six-and-a-half year sentence for involvement in failed plot to murder James ‘Mago’ Gately

John Costello provided transport for others in bid to impede Garda inquiry into shooting of convicted drug dealer

Court of Appeal says judges who convicted former soldier showed ‘scrupulous fairness’ and regard to evidence

Det Chief Insp John Caldwell has provided key assistance to gardaí tracking Irish gangland figures crossing Border

Neither man made replied when told they were being charged with assisting unlawful organisation

Judgment due to be delivered on April 17th by the Special Criminal Court

Defence counsel for Hutch’s co-accused Jason Bonney and Paul Murphy submitted prosecution have a ‘light or thin case’ and ‘very limited evidence’

Garda Michele Purcell agreed that Jason Bonney was not identified in a BMW X5 SUV at any other point in the CCTV footage

Special Criminal Court rules CCTV footage of alleged getaway car can be admitted as evidence

Ex Sinn Féin councillor asked if he and his family could ‘get into the Witness Protection Programme’