Isabel Hayes

1 week ago | sundayworld.com | Isabel Hayes

The now 20-year-old Dublin man was aged 16 when he took part in a dispute involving between 80 and 100 young people at a block of flats on Pearse Street, Dublin 2It was a “miracle” no-one was injured after a teenage boy threw improvised petrol bombs during a fight between opposing groups of young people from the north and southside of Dublin, a judge has said.

1 week ago | sundayworld.com | Isabel Hayes

The two-week Central Criminal Court trial involved allegations of serious sexual abuse against one girl by another during family sleepovers. It left a ruptured family in its wake, with extended family members giving evidence in support of the accused young woman. Today the jury returned not guilty verdicts against the now 20-year-old Dublin woman on all 12 counts against her after over nine hours of deliberating. The defendant and her mother both cried as the verdicts were handed down.

2 weeks ago | limerickleader.ie | Isabel Hayes

A 50-year-old man who befriended a teenage girl on Snapchat and sexually exploited her, giving her money and alcohol in exchange for sexual favours, has been jailed for three years. Dublin Circuit Court heard David Slattery of Priory Square, Celbridge, County Kildare, took the then 16-year-old girl to a hotel on two occasions, bought her a vape, mobile phone credit, food and alcohol, gave her cocaine once and engaged in sexual activity with her several times.

2 weeks ago | courtsnewsireland.ie | Isabel Hayes

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2 weeks ago | irishtimes.com | Isabel Hayes

Several relatives of a woman and her younger cousin, who she is accused of sexually abusing at childhood sleepovers, have given evidence for the defence. The grandmother of the accused woman and the complainant told defence senior counsel Dominic McGinn that the girls never slept over together in her house as has been alleged. A number of aunts and uncles of the accused and the complainant gave evidence for the defence saying the two girls were not particularly friendly when they were growing up.