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Man sent for trial on stab murder charge
A man charged with murder in connection with the fatal stabbing of a 26-year-old man in north Dublin last year, was yesterday returned for trial to the Central Criminal Court.
James Donaghue, of Coolock, Dublin, died after a row outside his grandmother's home where he had been attending a birthday party.
Two 17-year-old boys, who cannot be identified, and Brian Joyce also known as Bernard Christopher Joyce, ( 20) Carton Road, Poppintree, Ballymun, Dublin, had earlier been charged at the Dublin Children's Court with the murder of Mr Donaghue on September 10th last year.
Addict stored €11m drug haul
A cocaine addict who was caught with the then largest single seizure of heroin in the history of the State has had his sentence adjourned a second time at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.
Stephen Carlile, of Nangor Road, Clondalkin, got involved because his cocaine addiction had run him into massive debt.
He was paid €400 a week to mind over €11 million worth of heroin and cannabis, along with a stash of guns and ammunition.
The father of one was also given the €1,100 monthly rent on the apartment, described by gardaí as "effectively a drug warehouse", where heroin was prepared for sale.
Insp Gerard Delmar agreed with defence counsel that the people who hired Carlile threatened him that if the drugs were confiscated, he would be killed or, if he ran away, his family would be killed.
Carlile pleaded guilty to possession of heroin valued over €10.6 million, cannabis, and guns and ammunition at the apartment on Nangor Road, Clondalkin, on October 24th, 2006.
Road death case sentence held over
A Laois resident's sentence for dangerous driving causing the death of a woman in Co Wicklow has been adjourned by Judge Katherine Delahunt who said she had "a problem with the case" as presented.
"Looking at my notes, I feel I have only heard half the case," she said at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.
Andrew Keogh (24) , of Carmody Way, Fairgreen, Portlaoise, has pleaded guilty to dangerous driving on April 21st, 2006, at Mount Seskin Road, Brittas, causing the death of 28-year-old Sabrina Lynch.
Keogh, with three passengers, was driving at 120 km/h in a 60 km/h zone when he collided at the entrance to a caravan park with the vehicle driven by Ms Lynch's boyfriend, Steven Brosnan.
Prosecuting counsel said Mr Brosnan was never prosecuted in relation to this accident. "The prosecution case was presented on the basis that Keogh was the only person at fault here," counsel said.
Transfusion went against God claim
A young woman who refused a transfusion after losing a massive amount of blood after giving birth in a Dublin maternity hospital has told the High
Court she believed a transfusion was a transgression of "an order from God" and she was "prepared to die".
The 24-year-old French-speaking woman from the Congo, known as Ms K and who is a Jehovah Witness, was giving evidence in the action by the Coombe Women's Hospital seeking to vindicate its right to transfuse her against her wishes.