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The scene of the crime on December 24th, 2017, at Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin, where Stephanie Ng was assaulted. File photograph: Dave Meehan
Stephanie Ng case: Huge debate at DPP over decision to appeal boy’s sentence

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(...)

The Central Mental Hospital in Dundrum, Dublin. It is the State’s only facility for holding and treating severely mentally ill people who have committed serious crimes. Photograph: Cyril Byrne
New Central Mental Hospital fast-tracked to deal with Covid-19

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(...)

The scene near Dún Laoghaire Baths where Stephanie Ng was viciously assaulted. Photograph: Dave Meehan
‘It was like he was in the horrors’: The story of a boy who tried to murder a woman in Dún Laoghaire

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(...)

The Central Mental Hospital in Dundrum, Co Dublin. File photograph: Dara Mac Donaill/The Irish Times
One patient unconditionally discharged from Central Mental Hospital in 2018

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(...)

Ana Kriegel: found dead in an abandoned house at Laraghcon, Clonee Road, Lucan on May 17th, 2018.
Mental health experts may interview Ana Kriégel killers’ parent, court hears

Mental health professionals assessing the two boys convicted of murdering 14-year-old schoolgirl Ana Kriégel may interview the boys’ parents, the Cent(...)

The court heard the Central Mental Hospital (above) was fully occupied and there is a long waiting list of extremely ill people in prison who are in more urgent need of admission than a Co Clare man. File photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
‘Very, very wrong’: Judge decries lack of bed in mental hospital for man

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(...)

University students took notes in court while two of Ireland’s most eminent experts in the field of criminal insanity give conflicting opinions from the witness box.
Verdict in Kenna case down to the opinions of two psychiatrists

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 murdered his wife Clodagh and their three sons - Liam, Niall and Ryan - before taking his own life in August 2016.
Alan Hawe was not facing disciplinary threat, school says

The Co Cavan primary school where Alan Hawe worked says recent reports which suggest he was discovered in school accessing pornography or engaging in (...)

Clodagh Hawe’s mother, Mary Coll (left), and her sister, Jacqueline Connelly, have rejected expert medical evidence given at the inquest which said Alan Hawe was suffering from depression and psychosis. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire
Alan Hawe would have faced trial for murder, says expert

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(...)

Rebecca Ellis, with a photograph of her brother Alan. Photograph: Dave Meehan/ Irish Times
Is prison the right place for one of Ireland’s most dangerous inmates?

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(...)

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