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Former solicitor pleads not guilty to murdering father in north Dublin by reason of insanity (opens the original)
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A former solicitor has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to murdering his father in north Dublin nearly two years ago. Dáire McCormack-George (31), with an address at Cabra Road, Phibsborough, Dublin 7, is charged with the murder of Scott George at Drumans End, Tobersool, Balbriggan, Co Dublin, on December 12th, 2024. McCormack-George was arraigned before the Central Criminal Court on Monday on the single charge of murder. When the registrar read the indictment to the accused and asked h
Man (25) originally charged with Dublin murder pleads guilty to manslaughter (opens the original)
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A 25-year-old man who was originally charged with the murder of another man in Dublin more than a year ago has pleaded guilty to manslaughter. Jakub Rybar of The Avenue, Woodpark, Ballinteer in Dublin 16, appeared before the Central Criminal Court on Monday afternoon. He was arraigned on a charge that he unlawfully killed Michael McCann in Dublin on a date on or about July 2nd, 2025. Seoirse à Dúnlaing, for the Director of Public Prosecutions, told Judge Tony Hunt that Rybar could be arraigned
Man charged with possession of explosive substance following Monaghan car-bomb discovery (opens the original)
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A Dublin man has appeared before a late-night sitting of the non-jury Special Criminal Court on Saturday night charged with possession of an explosive substance in connection with an investigation into the discovery of a bomb in a car in Co Monaghan earlier this week. The car was stopped while travelling on the N2 south of Carrickmacross last Wednesday. Simon OâDonovan (44), with an address at Sperrin Road in Dublin 12 is charged that on July 22nd, 2026, at St Laurenceâs Road, Chapelizod, Du
Derek Boyd found guilty of murdering man at his Dublin home in 2024 (opens the original)
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Derek Boyd is now a double killer after being found guilty of the murder of Mark Carroll by a Central Criminal Court jury on Wednesday afternoon. Boyd was serving the suspended part of his sentence for the manslaughter of his sister when he fatally stabbed Carroll in the chest at his north Dublin home on June 9th, 2024. The jury of seven men and four women took eight hours and 51 minutes over three days to unanimously accept the Stateâs position that self-defence was not open to Boyd, who the
Man who killed friend on St Stephenâs Day three years ago jailed (opens the original)
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A Polish man who killed his friend, whose brain twisted in his skull after he received 27 injuries to his head and neck on St Stephenâs Day three years ago, has been jailed for six years. The Central Criminal Court was previously told at a sentencing hearing for Tomasz Rozpeda that no one knows âexactly what happenedâ on the night Maciej Nowak (32) was killed and that both men had consumed âsubstances to excessâ. Rozpeda told an emergency operator that his friend had âgone crazy hitt
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