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The Director of Public Prosecutions has decided to try a Dublin-based criminal solicitor before a judge and jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.
Cahir O’Higgins, whose firm is based on Parkgate Street in Dublin city, is accused of assault causing harm to another well-known criminal lawyer.
The offices of Cahir O’Higgins & Co. Solicitors are just a short walk from the Criminal Courts of Justice, where he first appeared on this charge in February.
The 46-year-old is accused of assault causing harm to Stephen O’Mahony, at Wolfe Tone Quay in Dublin city centre, on February 11th.
Man jailed for attacking and robbing escort in Dublin hotel room Samuel Pop (27) and now deceased co-accused previously involved in similar plot, court told
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A man who attacked, tied up and robbed an escort in her hotel room has been jailed for four years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.
A man who attacked, tied up and robbed an escort in her hotel room has been jailed for four years.
Samuel Pop (27) took part in a robbery during which his co-accused repeatedly assaulted the woman before stripping her of her clothes.
Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard that the co-accused in the case has since died while remanded in custody.
Pharmacy owner defrauds HSE by applying for duplicate claims for chemists in Louth and Dublin
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The owner of a chain of pharmacies may receive community service for fraudulently obtaining payments from the HSE’s Primary Care Reimbursement Service, a court has heard.
John Corr (55) was the owner of five pharmacies which made duplicate claims for reimbursement from the scheme, which is responsible for making payments to healthcare professionals, like GPs, dentists and pharmacists, for the free or reduced costs services they provide to the public.
Corr, of Vergemount Hall, Clonskeagh, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to seven counts of dishonestly inducing the HSE scheme to make a reimbursement at locations in County Dublin and County Louth on dates between July 15, 2016 and July 30, 2016.
The family of a young man who died in hospital some seven months after suffering severe injuries in a hit and run incident has secured a â¬375,000 settlement of their High Court action.
The vast bulk of the settlement, some â¬288,000, will go towards paying Dublinâs Beaumont Hospital for caring for 27-year-old Callum Grimes from December 27th 2016 up to his death in July 2017, Mr Justice Garrett Simons was told. Mark Grimes, of Station Road, Lusk, had, on behalf of the family, sued Derek Keane and the Motor Insurers Bureau of Ireland arising from his sonâs death.
Keane , an electrician and part-time firefighter aged in his 40s, of The Cottage, Loughshinny, Skerries, was jailed for 5½ years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court in 2019 after pleading guilty to dangerous driving causing Callumâs death.