Declan Brennan

Legal history was made yesterday morning when the first criminal trial to take place in Croke Park opened before a jury.

A former solicitor facing €1.2 million fraud charges will face trial in 2023. Michael Small, 54, is accused of multiple counts of theft, deception and accounting offences, alleged to have taken place over a two-year period while he was in practice as a solicitor in Limerick.

A judge who had close contact with somebody with Covid-19 has directed a jury in an ongoing criminal trial from his home. Judge James McCourt, appearing yesterday morning via video link to the Criminal Courts of Justice in Dublin, told the jury that he was socially isolating at home after close cont

A High Court judge has said he cannot change a order he made preventing the publication of the names of a convicted child rapist and his victim. Mr Justice Michael White said that the court made the order at the wishes of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). When the DPP applied a week later o