Ireland Crime

Named as

Convicted

Born

Between July 1982 and July 1983, from the ages reported

Offences

Unlawful possession of a knife

Where

Co. Dublin

Reporting

1 report, 3 Jul 2025 to 3 Jul 2025

Outlets

thejournal.ie

• Man jailed for six months after knife possession on Luas Unlawful possession of a knife · Co. Dublin

  Anthony Brophy, a 42-year-old man described as a homeless charity worker, was met by gardaí on a city-bound Red Line Luas in Dublin on 9 April 2024, with a knife reportedly in his belt buckle or down his trousers. He pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of a knife, breach of the peace, failing to give gardaí his name and criminal damage to a garda station cell. On 3 July 2025, Judge John Hughes at Dublin District Court sentenced him to six months in prison, with the final three months of a nine-month headline sentence suspended, and banned him from using the Luas for two years. He was also ordered to attend anger management counselling and remain on supervised probation for two years.

  Sentenced, 3 Jul 2025Convicted · 1 report

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1. 3 Jul2025
   Sentencedthejournal.ie, in Man jailed for six months after knife possession on Luas

   Homeless charity worker jailed for six months after carrying a knife on the Luas

   convicted, Anthony Brophy, 42, male, named, irish (judged from name)Anthony Brophy♂42IE

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