Judge sends Dublin firefighter to Massachusetts’ only maximum security prison for hotel rape

A member of the Dublin fire brigade who was convicted last week of raping a woman in a hotel room while visiting Boston during St. Patrick’s Day was sentenced to 7 to 9 years in prison on Thursday, ...

Irish contractor agrees to plead guilty in $1.5 million ‘traveling conman fraud’ scheme

John O’Brien agreed to plead guilty to one count of wire fraud, while prosecutors agreed to recommend a prison sentence of no ...
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Terence Crosbie moved to notorious supermax jail where officers 'gouged eyes of inmates'

Dublin firefighter Terence Crosbie, who was jailed last week for raping a woman in a Boston hotel, was transferred to Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, a supermax prison home to notorious incident ...
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Man who smashed pint glass into another man's face in Dublin nightclub jailed for three years

A MAN WHO smashed a pint glass into the face of another man in a Dublin nightclub, causing serious eye injuries, has been ...
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'Misogynist' man, 22, who stabbed woman in vagina four times sentenced in Dublin to 9 years in jail

On Monday, Judge Pauline Codd said it was "difficult to envisage a more depraved attack," before she sentenced the ...

DJ Carey: The Irish courts’ increasing will to jail fraudsters

In 2014, businessman Breifne O’Brien was jailed for seven years by Judge Patricia Ryan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for ...
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Former Kilkenny all-star hurler gets jail time for "fake cancer" fraud scheme

Denis Joseph 'DJ' Carey, the former Kilkenny hurler who pleaded guilty to ten charges of deception in July, has been jailed for five-and-a-half years. Carey, of The Drive, Newtown, Maynooth, Co ...

‘Inhumane and degrading’ conditions contributed to 50% increase in prison deaths

Overcrowding and poor healthcare contributed to a 50 per cent increase in prison deaths last year, according to a damning ...