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John Harbison worked on some of State’s most high-profile murder cases
- Crime & Law
- December 19, 2020, 13:52
Prof John Harbison served as the State pathologist for nearly 30 years and worked on some of the most high-profile murder cases in the State’s history(...)

Arrest in Spain halts John Gilligan’s efforts to get back into Irish drugs trade
- Crime & Law
- October 29, 2020
Dublin criminal John Gilligan was growing in confidence that he could retake a place in the Irish drugs trade as he slowly expanded a modest drugs and(...)

Drugs and gun seized amid arrest of John Gilligan in Spain
- Crime & Law
- October 23, 2020
Convicted drug dealer and former drug gang leader John Gilligan faces the prospect of spending most of the rest of his life in prison after being arre(...)

Former drugs gang leader John Gilligan has been arrested in the Alicante area of Spain where he moved following attempts on his life in Ireland. Gar(...)

Gemma O’Doherty denies trying to evade service of legal proceedings
- High Court
- August 18, 2020, 16:51
Political activist Gemma O’Doherty has denied claims she tried to evade service of defamation proceedings brought against her by Jimmy Guerin, the bro(...)

The Irish Times view on the Special Criminal Court: An admission of the State’s failures
- Editorial
- June 24, 2020, 20:05
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(...)

Joel Schumacher: the director who made Colin Farrell a star and helped invent the 1980s
- Film
- June 22, 2020, 23:51
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(...)

How will Covid-19 affect our relationship with the Garda?
- Crime & Law
- April 20, 2020, 02:01
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 (...)

Irish Times view on mandatory minimum sentences: Still a bad idea
- Editorial
- February 17, 2020, 19:00
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(...)

Mandatory minimum sentencing has done little to tackle serious crime
- Crime & Law
- February 17, 2020, 01:04
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 (...)