Justice Paul Coffey

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Former INM chairman Leslie Buckley.
Leslie Buckley made defendant in data hack case against INM

Former Independent News and Media (INM) executives Gavin O’Reilly and Karl Brophy have succeeded in adding former INM chairman Leslie Buckley as a def(...)

Debenhams denied accusations that it was cynically using the Covid-19 pandemic as an excuse to shut down its Irish stores. Photograph: Nick Ansell/PA Wire
Liquidators appointed as Debenhams shuts down Irish stores

The High Court has appointed joint provisional liquidators to the Irish arm of Debenhams. The provisional liquidators were appointed on Thursday morn(...)

Businessman Jim Mansfield Jnr was denied permission to vary his bail to allow him travel to Spain for his mother’s 75th birthday party. File photograph: Collins Courts
Jim Mansfield Jnr denied permission to attend mother’s birthday party in Spain
  • Courts
  • February 19, 2020, 20:16

Businessman Jim Mansfield Jnr, who is facing false imprisonment charges, has been denied permission to vary his bail to allow him travel to Spain for (...)

A June 10th trial date was set for these charges. File photograph: The Irish Times
Guilty plea to possessing submachine gun in Dublin
  • Courts
  • February 17, 2020, 16:28

A man has pleaded guilty to possessing a sub-machine gun with intent to endanger life or cause serious injury in north Dublin last year. Derek Devoy (...)

Jim Mansfield jnr: Granted legal aid by the Special Criminal Court. Photograph: Collins Courts
Jim Mansfield jnr granted legal aid by Special Criminal Court
  • Courts
  • December 3, 2019, 13:23

Businessman Jim Mansfield jnr has been granted legal aid on charges relating to false imprisonment and perversion of justice after the Special Crimina(...)

Judge says gardaí have a ‘unique investigatory role’ to not just preserve relevant evidence but also to seek out relevant evidence, including CCTV evidence.
Secret garda recordings can be used in murder conspiracy case

The Special Criminal Court has ruled that CCTV footage and recordings from covert audio devices placed on six cars as part of an investigation into th(...)

Eugene Kelly, solicitor Darragh Mackin, Antoinette Keegan and MEP Lynn Boylan, at a press conference by the Stardust victims’ families group following the announcement of new inquests. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
Cause of fire key issue for relatives in Stardust inquests

The fresh inquests into the deaths of 48 people in the 1981 Stardust fire will be the fourth time an inquiry has been held into the cause of the trage(...)

Addiction, drugs, heroin, syringe, spoon thinkstock
Man to be sentenced for possession of heroin valued at €1.25 million

A Dublin man will be sentenced at the Special Criminal Court later this month for possessing €1.25 million worth of heroin. Michael Brady (54), with (...)

Court was told the nature and quantity of the firearms, ammunition and other items, warranted an inference that the ‘arsenal’ was assembled to ‘support and sustain organised crime of the most serious nature’.
‘Mr Nobody’ who minded Kinahan gang ‘arsenal’ jailed for 10½ years

A Kildare man who minded an “arsenal” of firearms and ammunition for the Kinahan cartel has been jailed for 10 years and six months. Declan Brady (5(...)

Declan Brady (53), with an address at The Park, Wolstan Abbey, Celbridge, Co Kildare, pleaded guilty in February to possessing nine revolvers, four semi-automatic pistols, a sub-machine gun, an assault rifle and 1,355 rounds of ammunition. Photograph: Collins Courts.
Man who admitted gun possession ‘took orders from criminals abroad’

A Kildare man who pleaded guilty to possessing 15 guns and 1,355 rounds of ammunition received his instructions from senior criminals based abroad, a (...)

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