Harry Kennedy
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Stephanie Ng case: Huge debate at DPP over decision to appeal boy’s sentence
- Crime & Law
- July 29, 2020, 18:28
In recent years the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has shown an increasing tendency to appeal sentences it considers too soft – b(...)

New Central Mental Hospital fast-tracked to deal with Covid-19
- Health
- May 1, 2020, 02:54
The Government has fast-tracked the opening of the new Central Mental Hospital in north Dublin to allow for the isolation of patients displaying Covid(...)

‘It was like he was in the horrors’: The story of a boy who tried to murder a woman in Dún Laoghaire
- Criminal Court
- November 4, 2019, 12:00
The iPhone app was supposed to offer some level of reassurance – it would show the location of the 15-year-old boy as he moved around Dún Laoghaire an(...)

One patient unconditionally discharged from Central Mental Hospital in 2018
- Crime & Law
- July 14, 2019, 17:09
Just one person was completely discharged from the care of the Central Mental Hospital (CMH) last year. The vast majority of patients in the CMH in D(...)

Mental health experts may interview Ana Kriégel killers’ parent, court hears
- Criminal Court
- July 1, 2019, 15:32
Mental health professionals assessing the two boys convicted of murdering 14-year-old schoolgirl Ana Kriégel may interview the boys’ parents, the Cent(...)

‘Very, very wrong’: Judge decries lack of bed in mental hospital for man
- Circuit Court
- May 9, 2019, 00:33
It is very wrong that the State is about to sign a €3 billion contract for broadband when there is no bed in the Central Mental Hospital for a man who(...)

Verdict in Kenna case down to the opinions of two psychiatrists
- Criminal Court
- April 11, 2019, 19:38
On Thursday, Laura Kenna was sentenced by a judge to 10 years in prison for the attempted murder of a woman in Drumcondra, Dublin two years ago. But t(...)

Alan Hawe was not facing disciplinary threat, school says
- Education
- March 12, 2019, 16:07
The Co Cavan primary school where Alan Hawe worked says recent reports which suggest he was discovered in school accessing pornography or engaging in (...)

Alan Hawe would have faced trial for murder, says expert
- Crime & Law
- March 1, 2019, 00:01
A diagnosis that Alan Hawe was suffering from psychosis or severe depression when he killed his wife and their three sons would not have saved him fro(...)

Is prison the right place for one of Ireland’s most dangerous inmates?
- Crime & Law
- December 27, 2018, 00:01
When Alan Ellis appeared in court in last October to plead guilty to his latest offence he was surrounded by a phalanx of prison guards in full riot g(...)