*Páidí Fitzpatrick in action for Sixmilebridge. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. A 39-year old Dublin man is to plead guilty to the harassment of an ex-Clare senior inter-county hurler, Páidí Fitzpatrick.
*Photograph: John Mangan Two separate trials in Ennis involving one accused who had flown in from the United States and a second where two complainants had travelled from Canada had to be adjourned on Tuesday due to the solicitors’ dispute concerning the new flat rate fee for District Court work.
*Noel Jordan. Photograph: Press 22 A JUDGE has remanded in custody a Lisdoonvarna retailer pending sentence for the sexual abuse of a primary school-boy in the 1980s.
*Shane Flanagan. ONLY one of the 14 victims of an ex Ennis Garda’s unauthorised PULSE data disclosures has provided a victim impact statement in the case.
*Frances Street. A JUDGE has commented that a three year sentence would be a “very short sentence” for the “grave” offence where a teenager carried out a murderous knife attack on a 25 year old man in Kilrush last June.
*Roger Bishop. A THREE-times married 76-year old man paid €6,000 for a fake French ID card to secure the unlawful entry into the State of a then 20-year old African woman he met on dating website lovehabibi.com, a court has heard.
*Shane Flanagan. A JUDGE has directed that the 14 victims of an ex-Garda’s unauthorised PULSE data disclosures be asked to provide victim impact statements to court.
*David Molloy. Photograph: Press 22 A LISSYCASEY SOFTWARE engineer and married father of three engaged in 18 online individual and group chats that involved incest, sexuality activity with children and bestiality, a court has heard.
*New fencing has been installed at Shannon Airport following the incursions. A JUDGE has adjourned the trial of three Pro-Palestinian activists concerning an alleged incursion at Shannon Airport until the Supreme Court rules on a “legal point of public importance” relevant to the defence in the case.
*Ennis Courthouse. A 36 year old Kilmihil man has pleaded guilty to careless driving causing serious bodily harm to a boy in a road traffic accident in February 2024.