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34 cases now at sentenced, latest report first
- No. 0951
Ryan McLaughlin jailed for assaulting Lidl worker and robbing petrol station in Dundalk
Assault causing harm, robbery · Louth
Victim: 2 peopleSuspect: Ryan McLaughlin, Irish man, 43 (judged from name)Ryan McLaughlinRyan McLaughlin, a 43-year-old man originally from Omagh, Co Tyrone, who was serving a life sentence for murder in Northern Ireland under licence, was jailed for three years and three months at Dundalk Circuit Court. On 7 March 2026, he allegedly filled a trolley with over €155 of goods at a Lidl store in Dundalk, Co Louth, where a worker was bitten in the ribs during a struggle, and about 20 minutes later he and two others allegedly robbed Go Petrol Station on Newry Road, pulling a cash register valued at €5,000 and €700 in cash from the counter. He was arrested in Ballymun, Dublin, that same night while extremely intoxicated, and pleaded guilty to the robbery. He has been in custody since appearing before Drogheda District Court on 9 March.
Sentenced27 Oct1 report from thejournal.ie
- 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, was sentenced to two and a half years in prison at Dublin Circuit Court after pleading guilty to three charges arising from a Lidl incident in Clonsilla in February 2024 and a four-hour rooftop standoff in Castaheany in September 2025. At the Lidl, Cunningham and a woman threw fruit around the shop and he threatened a male security guard with a Stanley knife before being escorted out. In September 2025, Cunningham climbed onto the roofs of three houses on Castlegrange Avenue and threw solar panels and roof tiles at 20 assembled gardaí, causing €10,200 of damage, before jumping down and being arrested. The judge reduced the headline four-year sentence to two and a half years, noting Cunningham had been awake for two days and believed shadow men were pursuing him. The sentence was backdated to his arrest in September 2025.
Sentenced22 Oct1 report from irishtimes.com
- No. 0051
Man sentenced to eight months for cocaine possession in Edenderry, Co Offaly
Possession of drugs for sale or supply · Offaly
Victim: Tadgh Farrell, Irish man, 4 (judged from name)Tadgh FarrellVictim: Mary Holt, Irish woman (judged from name)Mary HoltSuspect: Aaron Holt, Irish man, 28 (judged from name)Aaron HoltAaron Holt, 28, of Edenderry, Co Offaly, was sentenced to eight months in October 2026 for possessing 49g of cocaine for sale or supply, found in a lunchbox on 27 March 2025 in a cul-de-sac near his home. His four-year-old son Tadgh Farrell and grand-aunt Mary Holt were killed in a petrol bomb attack at Castleview Park, Edenderry in December 2025, and Holt was refused leave to attend his son's funeral. He had been jailed for seven years in January 2026 for a May 2024 heroin seizure worth over €32,000, and was on High Court bail at the time of the cocaine offence. Judge Cody imposed the eight-month consecutive sentence at Tullamore District Court, where Holt pleaded guilty; he had 62 previous convictions, 14 for drug offences.
Sentenced22 Oct1 report from rte.ie
- 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 McElhattonOn the afternoon of 28 January 2025, Jackie McElhatton, a 51-year-old woman with 310 previous convictions, approached a student doctor in her 20s at Marlborough Street, Dublin 1, shouting and asking where she was from, then punched her on the forehead while wearing a ring. The victim, who fled Sudan, sustained swelling and a small scratch, and a video of McElhatton recorded by the victim's friend led gardaí to identify her. McElhatton, who was on bail at the time serving a seven-and-a-half-year robbery sentence plus a consecutive one-year sentence, entered a very early guilty plea to assault causing harm at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. Judge Orla Crowe, noting the attack had troubling racial aspects, imposed a two-year sentence suspended in full with two-year probation supervision, directed to run from the expiry of the one-year consecutive sentence.
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. 0095
Defence Forces member jailed for eight years for rape of 17-year-old girl in the midlands
Rape, oral rape
Victim: woman, 17Suspect: man, 30sA 30-something member of the Defence Forces was convicted in the Central Criminal Court in 2026 of raping and orally raping a 17-year-old girl at his family home in the midlands on 26 January 2023. He was arrested at the scene and faced two charges of rape, one of oral rape, sexual assault and false imprisonment; the jury found him guilty on the three rape-related charges and acquitted him on the remaining two. The judge set a headline sentence of 10 years, reduced to nine with the final year suspended, giving an effective eight-year term. The man, who has no previous convictions and two children, is under suspension from the Defence Forces and will no longer be a member when the court process ends.
Sentenced20 Oct1 report from irishmirror.ie
- No. 0096
Man jailed for six and a half years for raping teenage cousin in Wexford
Rape · Wexford
Victim: woman, 16Suspect: man, 24A man, aged 20 at the time of the offence and 24 at sentencing, who cannot be named to protect the victim's anonymity, was sentenced at the Central Criminal Court in October 2026 to six and a half years in prison after pleading guilty to raping his 16-year-old second cousin at her home in Wexford between 8 and 10 June 2023. The man, who had just been released from a prison sentence for assault causing harm and had previous convictions including two for sexual assault, had been allowed to stay with the victim's family by her father after his own family refused to take him in. He entered the girl's bedroom, blocked her, put his hand over her mouth, and raped her, telling her he would kill her if she told anyone. The girl confided in a friend before telling her parents following an episode of self-harm, and Gardaí were notified immediately. Mr Justice Tony Hunt set a headline sentence of 10 years, reduced to seven, with the final six months suspended, and ordered three years' post-release supervision and a no-contact order.
Sentenced20 Oct1 report from irishmirror.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. 0036
Life sentence for Donegal man over Eddie Friel murder
Murder · Donegal
Victim: Eddie Friel, Irish man, 60 (judged from name)Eddie FrielSuspect: James Spendley, Irish man, 59 (judged from name)James SpendleyEddie Friel, a 60-year-old man, was killed in an unexplained and frenzied attack at his home in Killybegs, Donegal, on 12 April 2025. James Spendley, a 59-year-old man, was found asleep at his home with blood-stained hands and was arrested after multiple interviews by Gardaí. He pleaded guilty to murder shortly before his trial date. On 19 October 2026, Mr Justice Paul McDermott at the Central Criminal Court sentenced Spendley to life in prison with a mandatory term.
Sentenced19 Oct1 report from rte.ie
- 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. 0122
Man jailed for six-and-a-half years for manslaughter of man on stag party in Athlone
Manslaughter · Westmeath
Victim: Irish man, 48 (judged from name)Suspect: Seán Munnelly, Irish man, 40 (judged from name)Seán MunnellySuspect: David Higgins, Irish man (judged from name)David HigginsPaul 'Babs' Connolly, a 48-year-old single man from Edenderry, Co Offaly, was assaulted for 21 minutes with punches and kicks by Seán Munnelly, 40, of Athlone, and David Higgins of Athlone, in the early hours of 13 August 2022 on Church Street in Athlone, Co Westmeath, while on a stag party. Connolly was knocked to the ground three times and died in an ambulance on the way to hospital, with a postmortem attributing his death to cardiac arrest from blunt force trauma to the head in a setting of acute intoxication. Munnelly, who had 102 previous convictions and was on bail and a suspended sentence at the time, changed his plea to guilty of manslaughter in June 2024 just before a jury was to be empanelled. He was sentenced at Mullingar Circuit Court in October 2026 to seven years with the final six months suspended, backdated to 27 February 2024, while Higgins had previously been jailed for one year for assault causing harm and violent disorder.
Sentenced16 Oct2 reports from irishtimes.com
- 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. 0128
Joseph Butler jailed for 10 years for manslaughter of Paula Canty in Mallow, Co Cork
Manslaughter · Cork
Victim: Paula Canty, Irish woman, 31 (judged from name)Paula CantySuspect: Joseph Butler, Irish man, 43 (judged from name)Joseph ButlerJoseph Butler, 43, was charged with the murder of Paula Canty, 31, after a stabbing at their shared apartment in Mallow, Co Cork, in the early hours of January 3, 2025, following a night of socialising and drinking at different houses. Canty, a mother of two in a relationship with Butler's brother Michael John Butler, died at the scene from a single stab wound to the chest. The DPP accepted Butler's plea of guilty to manslaughter. On October 16, 2026, Judge Eileen Creedon in the Central Criminal Court in Cork sentenced him to 12 years' imprisonment with the last two years suspended, conditional on keeping the peace and being of good behaviour.
Sentenced16 Oct2 reports from irishtimes.com
- 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. 0154
Marcus O'Neill sentenced to life for murder of partner Gillian Curran in Waterford
Murder · Waterford
Victim: Gillian Curran, Irish woman, 47 (judged from name)Gillian CurranSuspect: Irish man, 36 (judged from name)Gillian Curran, a 47-year-old woman from Tramore, Waterford, sustained 143 injuries over the night of 25 January 2025, including strangulation marks and internal injuries, and died from brain damage. Her partner, 36-year-old man Marcus O'Neill, was charged with her murder and did not plead guilty. On 12 October 2026, Judge Caroline Biggs at the Central Criminal Court sentenced O'Neill to a mandatory life term. At the sentencing, Curran's brother Michael told the court the killer's lack of remorse was beyond evil.
Sentenced12 Oct1 report from irishtimes.com
- 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. 0201
Two 17-year-old boys sentenced for drug-debt intimidation shooting in Mullingar, Co Westmeath
Reckless discharge of a firearm, criminal damage, arson, possession of drugs · Westmeath
Victim: womanSuspect: 2 peopleTwo 17-year-old boys, who were 16 at the time and had no prior convictions, were sentenced in October 2026 for a drug-debt intimidation shooting at a house in Ardleigh Park, Mullingar, Co Westmeath, on 14 July 2025, and for a campaign of criminal damage and arson targeting seven properties across Westmeath, Offaly and Longford between February and May 2025. The victim was a woman, and the boys, who cannot be named as juveniles, pleaded guilty at Mullingar Circuit Criminal Court to recklessly discharging a home-made blank-firing shotgun, criminal damage, arson, and possession of a blank-firing handgun, blank rounds and €7,000 of cannabis. The boy who fired the gun was sent into custody until a date in December, after which a three-year sentence will be suspended over five years, while his co-accused received concurrent sentences including a six-year suspended term, €14,500 in victim compensation by 1 June 2027, and 240 hours of community service. Both boys told the court they had drug debts and were forced to take part, and the judge described the drug barons who used them as 'like a cancer' on the State.
Sentenced5 Oct2 reports from irishtimes.com
- No. 0207
Former garda David Reynolds spared jail for controlling and coercive behaviour of wife over three years
Controlling and coercive behaviour · Westmeath
Victim: Ashley Masterson, Irish woman (judged from name)Ashley MastersonSuspect: David Reynolds, Irish man, 45 (judged from name)David ReynoldsDavid Reynolds, 45, a former garda, pleaded guilty to controlling and coercive behaviour towards his wife Ashley Masterson over a three-year period from January 2019 to July 2022 in Westmeath. The woman had made complaints to gardaí in Mullingar, and the court heard that Reynolds locked her in or out of their home, controlled their finances, installed a tracker on her phone, and recorded their conversations. At Mullingar Circuit Criminal Court, Judge Keenan Johnson imposed an 18-month sentence suspended for eight years, ordered €10,000 in compensation, and required 18 months of probation supervision and anger management counselling. Reynolds was dismissed from An Garda Síochána in August 2026, and he also entered a plea to an unrelated charge of falsifying a vehicle change-of-ownership document.
Sentenced2 Oct1 report from irishtimes.com
- No. 0012
Former garda sentenced for coercive control of wife in Westmeath
Coercive control · Westmeath
Victim: Ashley Masterson, Irish woman (judged from name)Ashley MastersonSuspect: David Reynolds, Irish man (judged from name)David ReynoldsDavid Reynolds, a former garda from Mullingar in Co Westmeath, pleaded guilty to coercively controlling his wife Ashley Masterson, a woman, between 1 January 2019 and 18 July 2022. The control involved tracking her, controlling her finances, using a phone tracker, and making 13 hours of audio recordings of arguments. At Mullingar Circuit Court on 2 October 2026, Judge Keenan Johnson sentenced Reynolds to an 18-month suspended sentence, suspended for eight years, ordered him to pay €10,000 in compensation to his former wife, and required him to complete an anger management course. A separate charge of falsifying a change of ownership document to avoid motor tax resulted in the Probation Act and a €1,000 payment to the Garda Benevolent Fund.
Sentenced2 Oct1 report from rte.ie
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Mark Conway sentenced to seven years for stabbing former friend seven times over €20 horse bet in Athlone
Assault causing serious harm · Westmeath
Victim: manSuspect: Mark Conway, Irish man, 40 (judged from name)Mark ConwayMark Conway, a 40-year-old man from Athlone, stabbed a former friend seven times in the abdomen and arm on 1 March 2025 in Marine View, Athlone, Co Westmeath, over a €20 horse bet the two had placed together. The victim lost consciousness and required keyhole surgery after his liver was sliced and his gallbladder removed. Conway, who was on bail for an earlier attack on his ex-partner and had 26 prior convictions, pleaded guilty to causing serious harm and other charges connected to the knife attack. He was sentenced in October 2026 to seven years with 12 months suspended, running consecutively to a five-year, three-month sentence imposed in January.
Sentenced2 Oct1 report from irishtimes.com
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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.
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