Veronica Guerin

The existence of the Special Criminal Court should trouble anyone who believes in civil liberties. The non-jury court was, in its modern guise, establ(...)

For the rest of the world, Joel Schumacher, who died on Monday at the age of 80, was one of the men who – then already deep into middle age – helped i(...)

The Irish cholera outbreak of 1832 can teach us a lot about the current coronavirus pandemic. Like today, the crisis saw a desperate search for quick (...)

When the 10-year presumptive mandatory minimum sentence for large-scale drug dealing was introduced 21 years ago, it was against a backdrop of fear. D(...)

There is a general perception that judges and the justice system go easier on offenders than they did in years past. This is something not missed by (...)

Serious drug dealers and drug mules are almost twice as likely to receive a prison sentence as they were a decade ago. They are also about twice as l(...)

Dubliner Martin Guerin has received a fully suspended sentence for possession of child pornography. Mr Guerin (68) of Portmarnock Drive, Portmarnock,(...)

The Criminal Assets Bureau (Cab) is investigating the assets of more than 1,300 people, including some juveniles, the head of the bureau has revealed.(...)

A Dublin man has admitted possessing almost 1,000 images of child pornography at his home. Martin Guerin (68) pleaded guilty to knowingly possessing (...)

On a tour of Ireland, one might easily ask: where are the women? There are statues to a few (we counted just five), a smattering of commemorative plaq(...)