*The incident took place at Topaz in Shannon which has since been renamed Circle K. Photograph: Joe Buckley A successful target of the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB), John McCormack has narrowly avoided prison for his role in an altercation described by a judge as ‘two grand-dads fighting over a baby”.
*Flan McNamara following the sitting of Ennis Circuit Court. A CLARE equine farmer repeatedly struck his brother in law across his body with an ash-plant in a row over where the farmer’s mare should be ‘covered’.
A JUDGE HAS compared a late night chaotic farm-yard scene where a father and son confronted Gardai with a pitch-fork and a calving jack to something from the Wild West.
*John Montaine attending the 2020 General Election count at The Falls Hotel. Photograph: John Mangan The partner of Clare TD, Violet-Anne Wynne (IND), John Mountaine was a ‘no show’ in court today as he is currently homeless and living in Co Longford.
*The Galway native fell to his death at the Cliffs of Moher. A coroner’s verdict into the death of a 25 year old Galway patient who fell to his death at the Cliffs of Moher has been stalled.
*Photograph: Robert Fairfield A judge asked ‘is there something in the water around here?’ after hearing a weapon and criminal damage allegation that a man took a consaw used for cutting stone to cut into the external walls of a pub on the border between Clare and Tipperary.
A judge today refused to grant a domestic violence Protection Order to a man ‘with three wives’.
Thirty to 40 people were present in a marquee for a late night ‘prisoner release party’ going at ‘full throttle’ that took place during a Covid-19 Level 5 lockdown, a court has heard.
A MOTHER has told of her shock at seeing a naked man perform a solo sex act facing children at one of the country’s most popular beaches last August. At Ennis District Court, the woman said that the man was standing, leaning against rocks at Lahinch beach as he carried out the solo sex act …
A birthday party organised by an Ennis granny for her one year grand-son “had got out of control” by the time Gardai called to the family home close to midnight, a court has heard. At Ennis District Court, Insp David Finnerty told Judge Alec Gabbett that around 40 people were in attendance at Kathleen McDonagh’s …
