High praise for Limerick-based judge as she takes up new role
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TRIBUTES have been paid to district court judge Marian O’Leary who has taken up a new role in Cork City.
The former nurse and solicitor was appointed to the bench in April 2014 and was permanently assigned to preside over court sittings Limerick and Kilmallock the following February.
Speaking on her final day presiding at Limerick District Court last Friday, the Cork native year-old thanked everyone she worked with during her time in Limerick.
“I came to Limerick six years ago knowing no one and, let’s be honest, knowing very little slash nothing about crime. I need not have worried because little did I know at the time that I was going to be working with the most fantastic group of people I could ever have hoped for.
Limerick motorist caught drink-driving twice in same year
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A MOTORIST who was caught drink-driving twice in the same year has been disqualified for six years.
Dale Ryan, 25, of Boskill, Caherconlish was prosecuted before Limerick District Court following a detection during the early hours of November 1, 2018.
Inspector Liam Wallace said the defendant was arrested after gardai stopped a car at College Court Drive, Castletroy after it was observed “swerving over and back” and crossing over the centre white line.
Mr Ryan was arrested at around 4am and taken to Henry Street garda station where he provided a breath sample which confirmed he was considerably over the legal alcohol limit.
Kinder eggs, heroin and rolls of cash found during search at Limerick home
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A SIGNIFICANT amount of cash which was seized at a house in the city is to be forfeited to the State after a judge ruled it was “most likely” related to the sale of illicit drugs.
The president of the district court, Judge Colin Daly, rejected claims from Sarah O’Neill that the cash had arisen out of a credit union loan which she told gardai she had drawn down.
Brian Collopy (left) and Kieran Collopy at Limerick District Court, where they were both sentenced to eight years in jail
The trial heard that the victim was “in the wrong place at the wrong time” when he was shot on December 8, 2009.
After the verdict was read out Maria left the courtroom with her daughters shouting: “Love you, Kenneth, love you no matter what.”
In 2015, her husband and his brother were under surveillance when they met with Paddy Mitchell – brother of George ‘the Penguin’ Mitchell – in a fast food outlet.
They were overheard discussing a heroin deal.
In December of that year, a drug squad stormed two adjoining houses in St Mary’s Park in Limerick.