GARDAÍ swooped on a 55 year old man while home in Ireland for a family funeral and charged him with the indecent assault of a sister 40 years ago, a court heard.
*A date for sentencing hearing will be set next month. A 28-year old Ennis man convicted last July of the rape of a teenage girl he had befriended online, has pleaded guilty to three money laundering offences.
*The threat was made in August. A 30-year old Ennis man has pleaded guilty to threatening a hitch-hiker that he would set him alight after pulling out a plastic bottle full of petrol if he did not pay money for his lift.
*Photograph: John Mangan FOUR members of an Ennis family have pleaded guilty to various offences arising from a major investigation by Clare Gardaí.
*A protest held in Scool, Corofin. Photograph: John Mangan A 19-year old Leaving Cert student has pleaded guilty to the assault causing harm of a man in his sixties at a protest against a rumoured new accommodation centre for asylum seekers in Co Clare last year.
*Teachers at St Flannan’s College where the site is earmarked for. AN BORD PLEANÁLA has given the HSE a deadline of later this month to confirm that there is Uisce Éireann capacity to accommodate its contentious plan for a €25m community hospital on diocesan-owned green space at St Flannan’s college.
*Members of An Garda Síochána and the Armed Support Unit carrying out a raid in Ballymaley in June 2023. TWO MEMBERS of an Ennis family today (Tuesday) denied participating or contributing to the activities of a criminal organisation.
*Sceirde Rocks. A TOTAL of €1.4bn is going to be the “significant initial investment” in a planned 450 MW wind-farm with 30 turbines over 1,000 ft high in the Atlantic Ocean off the Co Clare and Co Galway coasts.
*Daithi Mac An Bhaird (extreme left) with a number of supporters outside Ennis courthouse after he escaped a conviction arising from a protest he attended against the war in Gaza at Shannon airport last November. A 46-year old Irish and history teacher protesting at Shannon Airport over the war in Gaza has escaped a conviction.
*Gardaí at Magowna House. Photograph: John Mangan A DUBLIN MAN told the manager of a new direct provision centre at Magowna House in Inch that she was not allowed to stop him saying that “this is his country”, a court has heard.
