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Jessica Thompson

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Sep 23, 2026
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Jul 7, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 23, 2026 · Jessica Thompson

    Teenager accused of threatening ill pensioner with hatchet over her son’s €50 drug debt (opens the original)

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    A midlands teenager has been accused of threatening to “crack” an elderly woman’s skull with a hatchet during a burglary at her home in August over her son’s €50 drug debt. The 16-year-old, who cannot be named because he is a juvenile, appeared via videolink before Judge Bernadette Owens at Athlone District Court. The court previously heard evidence of how the teenager was already on bail on knife possession charges when, on August 13th, he allegedly turned up at the pensioner’s home

  2. Article · Jul 7, 2026 · Jessica Thompson

    ‘A crime of spite and revenge’: Man jailed for arson attack on rival sushi restaurant (opens the original)

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    A restaurateur has been jailed for nine years for an arson attack causing over €3m worth of damage to a busy shopping street in Longford two years ago. Chinese national Guo Zhong Chen (57), with an address at Belvedere Terrace, Mullingar, Co Westmeath, appeared before Judge Kenneth Connolly at Longford Circuit Court, where, in a letter of apology, he admitted setting fire to a rival business was a “stupid and foolish thing to do”. He was given a headline prison sentence of 14 years, which

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