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11-year-old boy awarded €44,000 for injuries sustained at communion function in Dalymount Park The then three-year-old was injured while playing near a dugout in 2013. By Ray Managh Monday 19 Apr 2021, 1:17 PM 2 hours ago 16,871 Views 0 Comments Dalymount Park in Dublin Image: Laszlo Geczo/INPHO BOHEMIANS FOOTBALL CLUB and the Airtricity League have agreed to pay €44,000 in damages to an 11-year-old boy who was injured at a function at t...

A garda sergeant told Judge Bryan Smyth that the Director of Public Prosecutions was consenting to the case being dealt with summarily at district court level, subject to the judge considering the issue of jurisdiction. The court heard it would be alleged that the woman was passing the accused when he leaned over toward her and “squeezed her right breast with his hand”. The judge accepted jurisdiction in the district court instead of sending it forward to Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, which has tougher potential sentencing powers on conviction. Judge Smyth said the accused also has a rig...

Comments Bloody Sunday occurred in Dublin on November 21, 1920. Beginning at 9 a.m. sharp, agents of Michael Collins’ Squad—the legendary “Twelve Apostles”—shot dead fourteen agents of the British Secret Service. Later that morning, in the confines of Dublin Castle, Dick McKee and Peadar Clancy, the Commandant and Vice-Command of the Dublin Brigades, were beaten to death along with Conor Clune, a young Gaelic Leaguer up from County Clare. How McKee and Clancy were apprehended by the British is one of the more sordid stories of Bloody Sunday. Read more The nig...

Drug-related intimidation is now so rampant in Dublin’s north-east inner city that more than 20pc of people surveyed there have experienced it directly, according to a new report released today. Violence, threats of harm, vandalism and intimidation are being used not only on people with drug debts and their family members, but anyone even suspected of reporting drug dealing in their area. The report reveals that over 80pc of respondents to an online survey aimed at those living or working in the area, which encompasses Summerhill, Ballybough, Mountjoy Square, Parnell Street and Gardiner Str...

Reasons for intimidation included to pressurise payment of a debt or a loved one’s debt; to “discipline” a person for “interfering” in a dealer’s activities by reporting incidents, or for even being suspected of informing or “ratting” to authorities. Targeted A focus group participant recalled a resident being targeted after reporting antisocial behaviour associated with drug dealing. “They came back the next day and smashed every one of her windows because the police was called because they were on the corner selling all that day and they were fig...