Liam Heylin

2 days ago | irishexaminer.com | Liam Heylin

A young man who had a ‚Äúhorrific‚ÄĚ childhood was humiliated by a headbutting from another Cork man who circulated a video of the assault online and he reacted by firing a shot into the other man‚Äôs house and then knocking down a 67-year-old man as he sped away. Jamie Russell was jailed for seven years with the last two years suspended by Judge Dermot Sheehan at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.

2 days ago | irishexaminer.com | Liam Heylin

Progress has been made in works to prevent salmon becoming trapped in the waters around a hydro-electric plant on the River Lee and on Wednesday the owner was given the benefit of a dismissal of one charge under the Probation Act. Judge Joanne Carroll made this decision on one of the charges brought by Inland Fisheries Ireland against Dan Twomey who has a hydro facility on the River Lee, south of the old Cork waterworks and directly across the river from the Kingsley Hotel.

2 days ago | irishexaminer.com | Liam Heylin

A Mallow man who held on to a €15,000 batch of bad-quality cannabis from a friend would have been better off flushing it down the toilet rather than putting himself at risk, a sentencing judge told the 45-year-old. Detective Garda William Hosford testified at Cork Circuit Criminal Court that on February 10, 2023, gardaí went to the home of Patrick Buckley, at 16 Sandfield Terrace, Mallow, Co Cork, with a warrant to conduct a drugs search.

2 days ago | irishexaminer.com | Liam Heylin

A drug-induced psychosis caused a man to hear voices and ultimately set fire to the family home. 37-year-old Robert Sheehan, of 58 Innishannon Road, Fair Hill, Cork, was before Cork Circuit Criminal Court for sentencing on Wednesday, having pleaded guilty to the crime. Garda Denis Coleman testified he responded to a call from the fire service who were at the scene of the fire on Innishannon Road on April 7, 2024. “A gentleman at the scene of the fire identified himself as Robert Sheehan.

3 days ago | irishexaminer.com | Liam Heylin

A French fisherman’s failure to record details of all of the fishing he was carrying out off the coast of Ireland cost him a total of €42,500. Ludovic Guennec was represented in Cork Circuit Criminal Court by solicitor Diarmuid Conway and a plea of guilty was entered to the charge stating that on May 18 within the exclusive fishery limits of the State, as master of the sea-fishing boat, Astrid, he did fail to retain onboard catches of seafish species which are subject to catch limits.