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A new date for the trial of George Redmond on a corruption charge will be set next month at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.
Judge Joseph Matthews, who recently rejected a defence application to halt the trial on grounds of adverse media publicity, has remanded Mr Redmond, former Dublin assistant city and county manager, on continuing bail pending the decision on a trial date.
Mr Redmond (81) has pleaded not guilty to receiving £10,000 between June 1st, 1985, and June 1st, 1986, as an inducement or reward for doing anything in respect of a compulsory purchase order by Dublin City Council on 167 acres of land at Bussardstown and Coolmine.
Kerry rape trial adjourned
The trial at the Central Criminal Court of a Kerry man charged with rape and kidnap has been adjourned following further legal argument.
The accused man (23) has pleaded not guilty to raping and falsely imprisoning the woman on October 31st, 2004, in a car park in a south Kerry town.
Mr Justice Henry Abbott told the jury to return on Tuesday but warned it the hearing might have to be further adjourned because of a family bereavement involving one of them.
Drug addict jailed for 18 months
A drug addict who ran his own production line of forged prescriptions has been jailed for 18 months by Judge Frank O'Donnell at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.
Philip Corbett (30), St Agnes Court, Tallaght, pleaded guilty to forging prescriptions and unlawful use of a computer at his home on November 23rd, 2004.
Garda David Jennings told Caroline Biggs, prosecuting, that when Corbett handed in a prescription to a pharmacy in the name of Paul Kenny, the staff member recognised him and contacted the doctor who allegedly issued it for confirmation that it was a forgery.
Gardaí searched his home and found templates for prescriptions in the name of three different doctors on his computer's hard drive.
Three still held on attempted robbery
Three men arrested on Wednesday evening as they attempted to rob a local businessman in Rathfarnham were still being held for questioning by gardaí yesterday.
The men, who are all in their 20s, were arrested by officers from the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation at about 5pm under section 30 of the Offences against the State act. This allows them to be held for up to 72 hours.
Inquest on fire victim adjourned
A young mother was so badly burned in a house fire in Dublin she had to be identified by DNA, an inquest heard yesterday.
Vivian Nkeiruka Oluoha (24), originally from Nigeria, and her two-year-old son, Uchenna Gabriel Duruh, died following a fire in their flat at Church Street, Dublin, on February 5th, 2005.
Det Insp Timothy McCarthy from the Bridewell Garda station sought an adjournment to await the DPP's decision on whether charges would be brought.
City coroner Dr Brian Farrell adjourned the inquest to June and extended his sympathy to Ms Oluoha's brother, who was in the court, and to her family in Nigeria.