John Hand

2 weeks ago | thesun.ie | John Hand

A FORMER professional footballer has been caged for sexually assaulting a college student in his taxi after he picked her up and drove to an isolated area late at night. Pervert Michael Keane, who played for Preston North End under David Moyes and St Patrick's Athletic later in his career, will spend the next two-and-a-half years behind bars.

2 weeks ago | thesun.ie | John Hand

ExclusiveIn a new dangerous tactic to send packages, thugs are using the coordinates of cells and flying drones to their windowGARDAI are probing if Ireland’s top drug trafficking gang are behind a major smuggling operation of contraband into Dublin jails. Investigators went on the offensive against associates of The Family on Monday. Cops hit a number of houses in Clondalkin, Ballyfermot, Coolock and Tallaght in Dublin.

2 weeks ago | thesun.ie | John Hand

A THUG who was jailed this week over the possession of an AR-15 rifle has pleaded guilty to violent disorder and endangerment. Eric O'Driscoll, 23, was before Dublin Circuit Criminal Court this this morning where he made the admissions after being sentenced to five years behind bars at the Special Criminal Court on Monday. O'Driscoll was dressed in a grey top as he stood in the dock while the two charges were read to him.

2 weeks ago | thesun.ie | John Hand

A new book on the case — The Ice House Murder by crime journalist Robin Schiller and retired Det Insp Pat Marry — reveals new insights into the horrific crimeTHE man who murdered Irene White told cops two weeks after the brutal killing he had “never met her”. Anthony Lambe was interviewed three times by officers within months of the murder, back in 2005. But he wasn’t considered a suspect until eight years later.

2 weeks ago | thesun.ie | John Hand

A THUG fired an AR-15 rifle in front of others outside a house party in a “grotesque act of bravado” before handing it over to his brother, a court heard. Glen Ward, who has completed a barbers course and attended art classes in prison, is set to be sentenced at the end of the month. The 32-year-old’s younger sibling Eric O’Driscoll, 23, was jailed for five years today over the same incident.