Eoin Reynolds

The Court of Appeal has upheld a miscarriage of justice finding in the case of a father who spent 16 years in prison before he was found not guilty by reason of insanity of the murder of his infant son. Mr Justice George Birmingham, president of the three-judge court, said Yusuf Ali Abdi, 48, "shoul

A barrister has complained that the presiding judge in the trial of four men accused of abducting businessman Kevin Lunney is "rubbishing" an important part of the defence case and was "dismissive and contemptuous" in his tone. Michael O'Higgins SC was cross-examining fingerprint expert Detective Ga

A barrister for the Director of Public Prosecutions has said she had "grave concerns" over the cross-examination of a 12-year-old boy who was repeatedly raped by his father. At a Court of Appeal hearing yesterday, Pauline Walley SC said that the child "zoned out" and became "fed up", "exhausted" and

No new juries will be sworn in to hear trials at the Central Criminal Court if the government opts for a Level 5 lockdown, it emerged this morning. Mr Justice Michael White today said that trials can continue during Level 4 restrictions with juries to be selected from smaller panels to allow for soc

A newspaper editor has been fined €4,500 after being found guilty of contempt of court for a front-page headline and article that "posed a real risk" to the trial of two boys convicted of murdering 14-year-old Anastasia Kriégel. Sebastian Hamilton, editor of the Irish Daily Mail, must pa