*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 …
*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.
*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.
*Shane Flanagan. A FORMER Garda jailed in July for inciting strangers to rape a colleague has pleaded guilty to the unauthorised disclosure of Garda PULSE personal data on two individuals.
*Shane Flanagan. A FORMER Garda jailed in July for inciting strangers to rape a colleague is to plead guilty to the unauthorised disclosure of Garda PULSE personal data on fourteen individuals.
*Martin Hannon. Photograph: Joe Buckley A judge has stated that a 43-year old Shannon man subjected two innocent men to “a drive-by shooting by the Internet” when falsely claiming on Facebook that the two were paedophiles.
*The matter was before Ennis Circuit Court on Monday. THERE ARE 55,000 pages of telephone records as part of the evidence against two Limerick men facing charges for their roles in an alleged €1m burglary spree in the Mid-West, a court has heard.
*Martin Hannon. Photograph: Joe Buckley ONE MAN fled Shannon in terror in his gym-gear without his belongings while another man became a target of online hate and felt that there was a bounty on his head after they were both falsely identified as ‘sick paedos’ in a Facebook post, a court has heard.
*The sentence was reduced. A JUDGE has jailed a 27 year old Ennis man for asking a mother on Snapchat could he have sex with her two year old daughter.