*The costs of turning the Boston bound flight back to Shannon Airport were €28,213. A 58 year old man has pleaded guilty to the sexual assault of a then 16 year old girl on board a transatlantic Aer Lingus flight bound for Boston.
*Ennis Circuit Court. Photograph: John Mangan A JUDGE has returned a 25-year old Limerick man charged in connection with an estimated €1m+ alleged crime spree in Clare, Limerick and Galway to trial. At Ennis District Court, Judge Alec Gabbett returned Tyreke Casey Curtin of Caisleán na hAbhann, Castletroy, Limerick for trial in connection with 31 charges that includes seven alleged …
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*Ennis Courthouse. A JUDGE has imposed a six-year prison term on a father for the “grotesque” sexual assault of his then 14 year old daughter at their Co Clare home.
*The cost to Aer Lingus of returning the Boston-bound flight to Shannon was €28,213. A JUDGE has given the go-ahead for a female US college student to give evidence via video link in a trial where a 58-year old Co Galway man is denying two counts of sexual assault on the teenager on board a …
*Saoirse Lillis McMahon. A 33-year old Kilkee woman pleaded guilty to the dangerous driving causing the death of ‘inspirational’ school teacher, Michael Lorigan (70).
*The incident took place in May of this year. A JUDGE has agreed to remove a “farcical” bail condition that a Pro-Palestinian activist living on Inis Oirr has to sign on at her local Garda station by phoning the Garda station on the nearby Inis Mór once a week.
A SUCCESSFUL Clare businessman and father had to pay over €14,000 to former drug dealing associates of his son in order to protect his family, a court has heard.
*Burren Hostel. A 62-year old Ukrainian war veteran, who has four sons fighting in the war against the Russians, has escaped jail after stabbing a man in the buttocks at a direct provision centre in North Clare.
*Photograph: David Crimmins A JURY has found an Ennis man not guilty of the assault causing harm of a father of four at the Spancilhill Horse Fair in June 2023.
*Ennis Courthouse. A JUDGE has ruled that a 33-year old Co Clare man who has pleaded guilty to two separate counts of the unlawful possession of child pornography can’t be identified, for now.