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3 days ago | 
irishtimes.com | Fiona Magennis
Disgraced former solicitor Michael Lynn has failed to have his five-and-a-half-year sentence for stealing more than €18 million from six financial institutions during the Celtic Tiger era reduced on appeal. In a lengthy judgement delivered at the Court of Appeal on Tuesday, Mr Justice John Edwards said the thefts were perpetrated “cynically, knowingly and intentionally”, and Lynn’s culpability was aggravated by the breaches of trust involved in how he dealt with the banks.
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4 days ago | 
dundalkdemocrat.ie | Fiona Magennis
Former soldier Lisa Smith’s conviction for membership of Islamic State is “sound” and should be upheld, the State has told the Court of Appeal. Tony McGillicuddy SC, for the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), said Smith’s appeal against conviction suffered from “a huge deficit” and what was presented was a “self-serving and self-pitying” portrait.
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4 days ago | 
irishtimes.com | Fiona Magennis
A 23-year-old man who raped and sexually assaulted one teenage friend and sexually abused another acquaintance when they were all teenagers has appealed his conviction, arguing the decision not to hear the cases separately deprived him of a fair trial. The youth was found guilty of one count of rape and one count of sexual assault against the first injured party by a Central Criminal Court jury.
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4 days ago | 
irishtimes.com | Fiona Magennis
Lawyers representing Stephen Silver, who is serving a 40-year sentence for the capital murder of Detective Garda Colm Horkan, have said they are unable to advance an appeal against his conviction as they have “hit a brick wall” in obtaining disclosure from the DPP relating to psychiatric evidence.
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4 days ago | 
courtsnewsireland.ie | Fiona Magennis
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1 week ago | 
irishtimes.com | Fiona Magennis
Former soldier Lisa Smith’s conviction for membership of Islamic State is “sound” and should be upheld, the State has told the Court of Appeal. Tony McGillicuddy SC, for the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), said Smith’s appeal against conviction suffered from “a huge deficit” and what was presented was a “self-serving and self-pitying” portrait.
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1 week ago | 
extra.ie | Fiona Magennis
Former soldier Lisa Smith’s conviction for membership of Islamic State is ‘sound’ and should be upheld, the State has told the Court of Appeal. Tony McGillicuddy SC, for the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), said Smith’s appeal against conviction suffered from ‘a huge deficit’ and what was presented was a ‘self-serving and self-pitying’ portrait.
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1 week ago | 
sundayworld.com | Fiona Magennis
court battle | Long (76), with an address at Maulbawn, Passage West, Co Cork had pleaded not guilty to murdering 54-year-old Nora SheehanToday at 16:50Cold case killer Noel Long, who was jailed for life for the murder and sexual assault of vulnerable Cork woman Nora Sheehan 42 years ago, has had his legal aid extended to cover a second barrister for his upcoming appeal against his conviction.
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1 week ago | 
sundayworld.com | Fiona Magennis
Wexford man Dean Ward (38), also known as Dean Alexander Fowkes, used a different name on first meeting his victim, Sinéad O'Neill, through an online dating website. He was convicted following a trial in June 2022 of twelve offences; four assaults, one false imprisonment, one making a threat to kill, two counts of production of articles, three counts of rape and one count of coercive control on dates between June 11 and July 17, 2019.
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1 week ago | 
independent.ie | Fiona Magennis
Wexford man who raped, assaulted and coercively controlled Donegal woman during six-week relationship appeals convictionA criminal has appealed his conviction for raping, assaulting and coercively controlling a woman during a six-week relationship in which she endured “violence and extreme degradation”, arguing that his trial jury was prejudiced by his victim giving evidence that he previously tried to kill her.
