A round-up of today's other court stories in brief.
O'Reilly trial continues in jury's absence
The trial of Joe O'Reilly, The Naul, Co Dublin, for the murder of his wife Rachel, continued at the Central Criminal Court yesterday in the absence of the jury.
Mr O'Reilly (35) has pleaded not guilty to the murder at the family home on October 4th, 2004.
Trafficking trial jury sent to hotel
The jury in the trial of a man accused of trafficking illegal immigrants into Ireland over two years ago has been sent to a hotel overnight.
Olaitan Ilori, Oak Drive, Blessington, Co Wicklow, has pleaded not guilty facilitating the entry of 14 Mauritian nationals.
Suspended terms for friend's assault
Two Dublin teenagers who beat up a friend, leaving him with a fractured nose and cheekbones because he broke a window at an 18th birthday party, have been given two-year suspended sentences.
Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court ordered the youths to pay €10,000 each as a gesture of remorse to the victim within 12 months.
Derek Denby (19) and Karl Cabena (19), from Rathfarnham, pleaded guilty to assault causing Joseph Lynch harm in May 2005.
Judge Delahunt said the teenagers had no history of violence or criminal behaviour, the incident had been "totally out of character" and they were at a "low risk of reoffending".
Student faces assault sentence
An art student who smashed a bottle into another student's face in a Rathmines nightclub will be sentenced later by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.
Ciarán Doyle (21), Beechfield Road, Perrystown, Dublin, pleaded guilty to assaulting Donal Lavelle in March 2006.
Mr Lavelle received 12 stitches to his face and 25 to his arm. He has scars on his nose and arm and may need laser surgery costing €5,000.
Woman criticised on child begging
Adults who send out children to beg house to house are "blackmailing" people, Judge Patrick McMahon has told Kilmainham District Court.
"It's a big nuisance, it's a blackmailing offence. The purpose of it is to make the person feel guilty. I am complicit myself by giving money."
Marcela Jugaru (41), South Circular Road, Rialto, Dublin, pleaded guilty yesterday to sending out a child to make house-to- house visits for the purpose of begging at Lucan in May.
Jugaru's solicitor, Niall O'Connor, said she came to Ireland from Romania five years ago and had seven children. She got €330 in social welfare each week.
Judge McMahon dismissed the charge with the Probation Act.
He told Mr O'Connor: "She will only get one chance."
Remand in bus violence case
Three teenagers who kicked a 19-year-old through the top window of a bus had their case remanded for service of their book of evidence in Tallaght junvenile court.
The court had previously heard it will be alleged that the three, with an 18-year-old co-accused (who is before the adult courts), had knocked the injured party, a student, out the window of a bus after an altercation.
The student landed on his head and suffered two hairline fractures.