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A man who beat his former partner and threatened to kill her because she had hidden his alcohol has been jailed. The man, who is in his 30s…
A court has heard how a priest accused of indecently assaulting two schoolgirls was witnessed by the victims concelebrating a funeral mass despite an internal c...
Guilty: Court hears how church showed ‘contempt’ to victim after internal inquiry deemed claims ‘credible’
Time in jail 'opened eyes' of teen who fractured student's skull outside Offaly Shopping Centre Reporter: 9 Apr 2021 Men were Time in jail 'opened eyes' of teen who fractured student's skull with kick outside Offaly Shopping Centrebrought from Portlaoise to Tullamore District Court '); '); TIME in jail had opened the eyes of a young man who assaulted a teenager in Offaly three years ago, fracturing the victim's skull. The defendant, who is from central Europe, was aged 16 when he kicked another 16-year-old male outside a shopping centre, causing a life threatening clot on the brain. The vi...
Updated / Wednesday, 17 Mar 2021 14:24 Eric Dunne was sentenced to three years and six months in prison, with the final 18 months suspended A man who fatally struck a 14-year-old schoolgirl in Co Offaly last year while texting at the wheel has been sentenced to two years in prison. Eric Dunne, 26, of Belair, Ballycumber, Co Offaly, was found to have been sending text messages from his mobile phone seconds before his Hyundai Santa Fe jeep fatally struck Aoife Doyle as she and her best friend Cara Cronly walked along the R436 Clara to Ballycumber Road at Erry, Clara, on 20 March, ...