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22 cases now at sentenced in Dublin, latest report first
- No. 0054
Honduran man given non-custodial sentence for sexual assault of teen boy in gym
Sexual assault · Dublin
Victim: man, 16Suspect: Dario Maradiaga Flores, Honduran man, 33Dario Maradiaga FloresIn April 2025, Dario Maradiaga Flores, a 33-year-old Honduran man, sexually assaulted a 16-year-old boy in the changing room of a gym in Tallaght, Dublin, by groping his genitals through his clothing. The teenager reported the incident to gym staff, who contacted gardaí, and Flores was traced through CCTV footage and his gym swipe card. He pleaded guilty to one count of sexual assault at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court after the District Court refused jurisdiction. On 27 October 2026, Judge Martin Nolan handed down a sentence of two and a half years suspended in full, with a condition that Flores pay €5,000 to the victim within six weeks.
Sentenced27 Oct2 reports from gript.ie, irishmirror.ie
- No. 0060
Man with 110 convictions jailed for restaurant burglary in Dublin 8
Burglary · Dublin
Suspect: Michael Joyce, Irish man, 50 (judged from name)Michael JoyceSuspect: manMichael Joyce, a 50-year-old man of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty to one count of burglary of a restaurant in Dublin 8 in the early hours of 3 April 2025. A witness in his car on his way to work spotted two men, one with a limp and a crutch, climbing out of the ransacked restaurant and called the gardaí, who arrested both men at the scene. The case was heard at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, where Joyce, who has 110 previous convictions including two for rape, was sentenced by Judge Orla Crowe on 23 October 2026 to two years and six months, backdated to when he went into custody.
Sentenced25 Oct1 report from irishmirror.ie
- No. 0061
Woman jailed for two years and nine months for Dublin launderette robbery
Robbery · Dublin
Victim: non-Irish woman (judged from name)Suspect: Ennis Dunne, Irish woman, 47 (judged from name)Ennis DunneEnnis Dunne, a 47-year-old woman, pleaded guilty to robbing a laundrette on the South Circular Road in Dublin on 24 October 2025, taking €410 from the till after pushing a sharp object into the back of a female staff member. She had been using the launderette machines for about an hour before the robbery and was heavily intoxicated on illicit substances at the time. Dunne was identified from CCTV footage and appeared at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, where she told gardai she was on methadone maintenance and taking crack cocaine. Judge Martin Nolan sentenced her to two years and nine months, backdated to her custody in October 2025, noting her 77 previous convictions including 11 for robbery.
Sentenced24 Oct1 report from irishmirror.ie
- No. 0065
Burglar with 214 convictions jailed for 10 years for Dublin burglaries
Burglary, theft, trespass, criminal damage, aggravated burglary · Dublin
Victim: 2 peopleSuspect: Andrew Cleary, Irish man, 50 (judged from name)Andrew ClearyAndrew Cleary, 50, of no fixed abode and with 214 previous convictions, entered seven homes across Dublin between October 2024 and July 2025, stealing items to sell to feed his polysubstance drug addiction. In a Ranelagh burglary a victim gave him his wallet and was told to lock the door and not come out, while in a Killiney burglary the homeowner watched Cleary in real time on a security camera app before Gardaí apprehended him holding two bags. Cleary pleaded guilty to multiple counts of burglary, theft, trespass, criminal damage, and one count of aggravated burglary at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. Ms Justice Patricia Ryan sentenced him to 10 years' imprisonment with the final 18 months suspended on strict conditions.
Sentenced24 Oct1 report from irishmirror.ie
- No. 0049
Man jailed for two and a half years over roof tile standoff and Lidl threat in Dublin
Criminal damage and threatening · Dublin
Victim: manSuspect: Martin Cunningham, Irish man, 32 (judged from name)Martin CunninghamMartin Cunningham, 32, of Blanchardstown, was sentenced to two and a half years in prison at Dublin Circuit Court for threatening a security guard and causing criminal damage. In February 2024, Cunningham and a woman threw fruit in a Lidl shop in Clonsilla before he threatened a security guard with a Stanley knife. On 16 September 2025, after being awake for two days and believing shadow men were pursuing him, Cunningham climbed onto the roofs of three houses on Castlegrange Avenue, Castaheany, and threw solar panels and roof tiles at 20 gardaí, causing €10,200 of damage before jumping down and being arrested. He pleaded guilty to three charges and the judge reduced the headline four-year sentence to two and a half years, backdated to his arrest in September 2025.
Sentenced22 Oct1 report from irishtimes.com
- No. 0048
Grandmother with 310 convictions given suspended sentence for unprovoked assault on student doctor in Dublin
Assault causing harm · Dublin
Victim: non-Irish woman, 20s (judged from name)Suspect: Jackie McElhatton, non-Irish woman, 51 (judged from name)Jackie McElhattonJackie McElhatton, a 51-year-old woman who moved to Ireland from the UK in 2000, pleaded guilty to punching a student doctor in her 20s on the forehead while wearing a ring after approaching her shouting and asking where she was from, on the afternoon of 28 January 2025 at Marlborough Street, Dublin 1. Gardaí identified McElhatton from a video recorded by the victim's friend, and McElhatton entered a very early guilty plea to assault causing harm without being interviewed. At Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, Judge Orla Crowe noted the attack had 'troubling racial aspects' and imposed a two-year sentence suspended in full with two-year probation supervision, directed to run from the expiry of McElhatton's existing one-year consecutive robbery sentence. McElhatton, who has 310 previous convictions and was on bail at the time of the incident, is serving a seven-and-a-half-year robbery sentence plus the consecutive one-year term, with an earliest release date of March 2032.
Sentenced21 Oct3 reports from dublinlive.ie, irishtimes.com, rte.ie
- No. 0042
Ex-boxer Joe Doyle jailed for 10 years for aggravated burglary and assault of elderly woman in Dublin
Aggravated burglary and assault causing harm · Dublin
Joe Doyle, 45, of Queen Street, Dublin, and another man with covered faces pushed into a 76-year-old woman's flat in Dublin city centre, attacked her and a second woman in her 40s, and took €70 in cash. Doyle, a former boxer with 111 previous convictions who was in the throes of crack cocaine addiction at the time, entered pleas to aggravated burglary and two charges of assault causing harm on January 12, 2023. On October 20, 2026, Judge Martin Nolan sentenced him to 10 years, a headline sentence of 12 years reduced to date from December 2023 when a separate five-year robbery term was imposed.
Sentenced20 Oct2 reports from irishmirror.ie, rte.ie
- No. 0018
Woman who facilitated gangland murder jailed for over six years
Murder · Dublin
Victim: Jamie Tighe-Ennis, Irish man, 24 (judged from name)Jamie Tighe-EnnisVictim: Kevin Ennis, Irish man (judged from name)Kevin EnnisVictim: June Tighe, Irish woman (judged from name)June TigheSuspect: Ciara Mahony, Irish woman, 46 (judged from name)Ciara MahonyJamie Tighe-Ennis, 24, was shot in the head on Moatview Avenue, Coolock, Dublin, in the early hours of 28 October 2017, becoming the 14th victim of the Hutch-Kinahan feud. Ciara Mahony, 46, a woman originally from Artane, was charged with facilitating a criminal organisation in the commission of the murder after evidence showed she phoned the victim on a burner phone, met him at a pub that night, and bought petrol used to burn out the black Audi getaway car. She was arrested in October 2018, released, and later extradited from Birmingham, England, in 2025 after the DPP decided to prosecute in November 2024. In October 2026, she pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court and was sentenced to six years and three months, reduced from a headline of nine to ten years, with the judge citing her severe crack cocaine addiction and the influence of organised crime figures. The murder itself remains unsolved.
Sentenced19 Oct2 reports from irishtimes.com, rte.ie
- No. 0106
Simon McGinley sentenced for breaching release conditions at Central Criminal Court
Breach of release conditions · Dublin
Victim: 2 peopleSuspect: Simon McGinley, Irish man, 52 (judged from name)Simon McGinleySimon McGinley, a 52-year-old man originally from Dundalk, appeared before the Central Criminal Court on 19 October 2026 for repeatedly breaching the notification requirements of his release under the Sex Offenders Act. He had been released from jail in 2021 after serving part of a 21-year sentence imposed in 2009 for the rape of an 86-year-old woman, and in 2023 two years of that sentence were reactivated with six months suspended. The week before the hearing, McGinley received a 2½-year jail term at Dundalk Circuit Criminal Court for the same breaches, and on 19 October Judge Tony Hunt reactivated three months of the suspended sentence to run consecutively to that term. McGinley had no solicitor present at the hearing due to the withdrawal of services.
Sentenced19 Oct1 report from irishtimes.com
- No. 0118
Man jailed for five years for assaulting partner in Dublin
Assault causing harm, criminal damage, breach of safety orders · Dublin
Victim: womanSuspect: manA man, who cannot be named to protect the identity of the injured party, pleaded guilty to multiple counts of assault, criminal damage, and breach of safety orders arising from incidents in July 2024 at a Dublin address, in which he punched, kicked, and threw objects at his then partner, causing her serious soft tissue injuries and mental health trauma. He was arrested in the garden and sentenced by Judge Martin Nolan on 17 October 2026 to five years on two assault causing harm counts running concurrently, backdated to his custody. The man, who has 36 previous District Court convictions, expressed remorse and said he was ashamed of what he did to his partner.
Sentenced17 Oct2 reports from dublinlive.ie, irishmirror.ie
- No. 0123
Parnell Square attacker Riad Bouchaker critically ill in hospital after collapsing in Cloverhill
Attempted murder, assault causing serious harm, assault, producing a knife in a manner likely to intimidate · Dublin
Victim: Leanne Flynn, Irish woman (judged from name)Leanne FlynnVictim: Alan Loren-Guille, French man, 17Alan Loren-GuilleVictim: Alan Lorena Guille, French manAlan Lorena GuilleVictim: 2 peopleSuspect: Riad Bouchaker, Algerian man, 52Riad BouchakerOn 23 November 2023, Riad Bouchaker, a 52-year-old Algerian man now an Irish citizen, stabbed a five-year-old girl in the heart, creche worker Leanne Flynn in the back, and other children with a 36cm carving knife at Parnell Square East in Dublin. The five-year-old girl suffered severe brain injury due to blood loss and will require lifelong care. Bouchaker was charged with attempted murder of three children, assault causing serious harm to Flynn, and other offences, and a jury at the Central Criminal Court convicted him of all charges after a three-week trial ending in July 2026. Sentencing was adjourned to 16 November 2026, and on 16 October 2026 Bouchaker collapsed in Cloverhill remand prison and was taken to intensive care in a Dublin hospital, where he is critically ill but not in imminent danger.
Sentenced12 Oct5 reports from dublinlive.ie, irishmirror.ie, irishtimes.com
- No. 0129
Convicted rapist jailed for stealing milk van with driver's daughter inside
Dangerous driving, unlawful taking of a vehicle, assault · Dublin
Victim: 2 peopleSuspect: Jamie Murray Kinsella, Irish man, 34 (judged from name)Jamie Murray KinsellaSuspect: Irish man, 37Jamie Murray Kinsella, a 34-year-old Irish man with 74 previous convictions including a rape conviction, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, unlawful taking of a vehicle, and assault after he and another man took a milk delivery van with the driver's daughter in the back on 12 May 2025 in the Saggart and Tallaght areas of Dublin. The van travelled 24 km before Kinsella lost control, and both men were arrested; he was sentenced in October 2026 to five years and nine months (backdated) and a five-year driving disqualification. Separately, a 37-year-old Dublin factory worker was found guilty by a Central Criminal Court jury in June 2026 of 25 counts of sexual assault, rape, and child cruelty against his partner's two children, who were aged eight and nine at the start of the abuse between 2018 and 2021 in Dublin and Waterford. He was sentenced on 16 October 2026 to 12 years and three months with no part suspended, and both children are now in care. The man maintains his innocence and does not accept the jury verdict.
Sentenced16 Oct2 reports from irishmirror.ie
- No. 0134
Gardaí given Orla Poole's name 28 years ago in George Gibney investigation
Indecent assault, attempted rape · Dublin
Victim: Carolyn Brown, Irish woman (judged from name)Carolyn BrownVictim: Orla Poole, Irish woman (judged from name)Orla PooleVictim: 2 peopleSuspect: George Gibney, Irish man, 78George GibneySuspect: Graham Carey, Irish man, 42 (judged from name)Graham CareyGeorge Gibney, 78, an Irish man and former Olympic swimming coach, was convicted by a Central Criminal Court jury in July 2026 of 39 counts of indecent assault and one count of attempted rape of four girls, including Orla Poole, an Irish woman whom he abused from the age of eight and attempted to rape at 12, for offences committed between 1971 and 1981 at swimming pools in Stillorgan and Blackrock, Co Dublin, and in his car, home, and complainants' homes. After being extradited from Florida in 2025, Gibney was sentenced on 12 October 2026 to 15 years and 6 months' imprisonment. Carolyn Brown, another Irish woman victim, gave Orla Poole's name to gardaí in 1998, but they never contacted her, and the DPP directed no charges on Brown's complaint. Separately, Graham Carey, 42, an Irish man and truck driver, was convicted in April 2026 of incitement to hatred for a 2023 Instagram livestream in which he referred to refugees as 'rape-ugees' and sentenced in October 2026 to two years' imprisonment with the final year suspended.
Sentenced12 Oct6 reports from dublinlive.ie, garda.ie, irishmirror.ie, irishtimes.com
- No. 0141
Convicted killer Derek Boyd jailed for one year for pub assault in Finglas
Assault with intent to cause bodily harm · Dublin
Victim: Mark Carroll, Irish man (judged from name)Mark CarrollVictim: Sandra Boyd, Irish woman, 36 (judged from name)Sandra BoydVictim: manSuspect: Derek Boyd, Irish man, 31 (judged from name)Derek BoydDerek Boyd, 31, a man, punched a man outside the Abbey Tavern in Finglas, Dublin, in April 2024, knocking him to the ground and causing a nosebleed. The injured man declined to co-operate with the garda investigation, but Boyd was arrested, initially denied it was him, and then pleaded guilty to assault with intent to cause bodily harm on April 17, 2024. Judge Martin Nolan sentenced Boyd to one year in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. Boyd is already serving a life sentence for the murder of Mark Carroll in June 2024 and a four-year sentence, with two years suspended, for the manslaughter of his sister Sandra Boyd in 2022.
Sentenced14 Oct1 report from irishmirror.ie
- No. 0143
FAI coach Matthew Hayes Rice jailed for stabbing close friend in Tallaght
Assault causing harm · Dublin
Victim: womanSuspect: Matthew Hayes Rice, Irish man, 29 (judged from name)Matthew Hayes RiceOn 15 June 2020, Matthew Hayes Rice, a 29-year-old FAI coach, stabbed a close female friend during an altercation at her flat in Exchange Hall, Tallaght, Dublin 24, after a dispute involving his sister. The victim sustained a 9cm deep stab wound to her side and cuts to her face, and was taken to Tallaght Hospital. Hayes Rice pleaded guilty to assault causing harm and took three bench warrants in the case. On 14 October 2026, Judge Nolan sentenced him to two years and three months, reduced from a headline of four years and six months, with credit for time served.
Sentenced14 Oct1 report from irishmirror.ie
- No. 0153
Fake taxi driver Nicolae Zgherea jailed for false imprisonment of visually impaired woman in Dublin
False imprisonment · Dublin
Victim: womanSuspect: Nicolae Zgherea, non-Irish man, 30 (judged from name)Nicolae ZghereaIn the early hours of 8 May 2022, a visually impaired woman in Dublin got into the car of Nicolae Zgherea, a 30-year-old man, at a taxi rank believing he was a taxi driver. After realising there was no licence or meter, she asked him to pull over but he continued driving until a 999 operator convinced him to stop on Mespil Road. Zgherea, who was not a taxi driver, pleaded guilty to false imprisonment at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. Judge Orla Crowe sentenced him to four years, with the final 12 months suspended on strict conditions, after reducing the headline sentence of five years.
Sentenced12 Oct1 report from irishmirror.ie
- No. 0166
Teenager sentenced for defilement of 12-year-old girl
Defilement · Dublin
Victim: woman, 12Suspect: man, 15 (reports differ: 17)A 15-year-old boy pleaded guilty in early 2024 to defilement after engaging in sexual acts with a 12-year-old girl near his home in Dublin. The case was deemed unsuitable for the Garda Youth Diversion Programme and was sent to the Central Criminal Court, where Mr Justice Paul McDermott adjourned the matter in September 2026 for finalisation. In October 2026, the boy, now 17, was sentenced to a two-year detention order with eight months in detention and 16 months suspended for three years on very strict conditions, along with Sex Offender's Act requirements for three years. The judge reduced the headline sentence from six years to three years to reflect the boy's youth. The boy also pleaded guilty to possession and production of child sexual abuse material at the Children's Court.
Sentenced10 Oct2 reports from dublinlive.ie, irishmirror.ie
- No. 0170
Woman jailed for four years for storing €1.5m cannabis in Lucan, Dublin
Possession of drugs for sale or supply · Dublin
Suspect: Oana Onofrei, non-Irish woman, 49 (judged from name)Oana OnofreiGardaí searched the home of 49-year-old woman Oana Onofrei on St Edmunds Grove in Lucan, Dublin, on 13 November 2025 after receiving information and observing a delivery, and found €1,556,000 worth of cannabis. Onofrei, who had no previous convictions, sublet a room to men for €1,000 a month to store and sort the cannabis, with the men using the Signal App to instruct her to deliver bags of drugs. She pleaded guilty to possession of the drugs for sale or supply at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. On 9 October 2026, Judge Martin Nolan sentenced her to four years in prison, backdated to November 2025, halving the headline eight-year sentence on the basis that she made little or no profit and was unlikely to reoffend.
Sentenced9 Oct1 report from irishtimes.com
- No. 0182
Homeless man jailed for sexually assaulting woman in Dublin city centre
Sexual assault · Dublin
Victim: 4 peopleSuspect: Brian Reilly, Irish man, 49 (judged from name)Brian ReillySuspect: Levers Zinca, non-Irish man, 31 (judged from name)Levers ZincaBrian Reilly, a 49-year-old homeless man, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on 8 October 2026 to sexually assaulting a woman in Dublin city centre on 18 July 2022, after he stumbled towards her and exposed his penis at a bus stop; he said he had no recollection of the incident until shown CCTV and claimed he had taken a tray of sedatives and alcohol that night. Judge Martin Nolan jailed him for two years and three months, noting his 74 previous convictions were mainly for theft and public order offences. On the same day, Levers Zinca, a 31-year-old man of no fixed abode, was sentenced to five years with the final six months suspended for two years for seven ATM distraction thefts totalling €1,940 committed between July and December 2025, targeting elderly and vulnerable victims including an elderly nun. Zinca, who had previous convictions in Ireland, Belgium, Denmark and Germany, was identified from CCTV and arrested in January 2026; his family brought €2,000 to court to reimburse the victims.
Sentenced8 Oct2 reports from irishmirror.ie, irishtimes.com
- No. 0187
Woman's High Court case over child abuse videos on Pornhub sites adjourned to March
Sexual abuse, breach of privacy, GDPR breach · Dublin
A woman known as Jane Doe claims she was drugged and raped by a man when she was a minor and that videos of the abuse were published on adult websites including Pornhub. She brought a High Court case in Dublin against the MindGeek (now AYLO) group of companies, seeking damages for breach of privacy and GDPR breaches. In October 2026, Mr Justice Brian Cregan adjourned the case to March 2027 pending US court approval of a $120 million class action settlement. Separately, a boy now 18 who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting his two half-sisters, aged five and two, between 2022 and 2023 was sentenced to four years with the final two years suspended.
Sentenced7 Oct3 reports from irishmirror.ie, irishtimes.com
- No. 0192
James Hoolahan given suspended sentence for bagging €31,000 drugs in Blanchardstown
Possession of drugs for sale or supply · Dublin
Suspect: James Hoolahan, Irish man, 22 (judged from name)James HoolahanJames Hoolahan, an 18-year-old man, was caught bagging about €31,000 worth of cocaine and cannabis in a Blanchardstown apartment in January 2022. He was one of seven young men present when gardaí raided the apartment but was the only one charged. He pleaded guilty to one count of possessing drugs for sale or supply at Rose Court, Blanchardstown on 16 January 2022. In October 2026, Judge Martin Nolan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court sentenced him to three years, suspended in full on conditions, noting he had no previous convictions and no negative garda attention in the four years since the offence.
Sentenced7 Oct1 report from irishmirror.ie
- No. 0223
Dublin car salesman Andrius Miliauskas jailed for misleading customers over car history
Misleading consumers · Dublin
Victim: 2 peopleSuspect: Andrius Miliauskas, non-Irish man (judged from name)Andrius MiliauskasSuspect: Brian Healy, Irish man (judged from name)Brian HealyLucan Auto Sales owner Brian Healy and his Ukrainian salesman Andrius Miliauskas were sentenced at Dublin District Court on 30 September 2026 after pleading guilty to 10 charges under the Consumer Protection Act 2007 for selling two cars with undisclosed crash histories. A 161 Ford Focus, written off in a March 2023 crash, was sold to a customer in June 2023 for €11,500, and a 142 Audi A5, written off in the UK in 2017, was sold in June 2024 for €14,000, in both cases without disclosing the vehicles' prior write-off status. The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission brought the prosecution after a probe launched following consumer complaints. Miliauskas, who had a prior 2023 conviction for a similar offence, was jailed for four months, while Healy was fined €1,500 and ordered to pay €3,567 in costs and €1,994 in compensation.
Sentenced30 Sep3 reports from dublinlive.ie, irishmirror.ie, irishtimes.com