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Clare father jailed for 11 and a half years for sex abuse

A Clare man who sexually abused and raped his daughter over a 13-year period has been jailed for 11 and a half years. Patrick Honan...

Family speak of ‘whirlwind’ of feelings as nephew gets life for uncle’s murder

The niece of a 78-year-old widower has told the Central Criminal Court that her family have experienced a raw, pervasive fear "stemming from the...

State granted more time in Clare attempted murder case

THE State has been granted further time to serve a book of evidence on a man accused of attempted murder in Clare. Tony McInerney (27),...

Clare man jailed for ‘opportunistic’ rape of student

A YOUNG man who “opportunistically” raped a university student friend after creeping into her bed in the middle of the night has been jailed...

Ballard was covered in blood and said, ‘I think I killed Sharon’

AT THE sentencing hearing last Friday of Patrick Ballard for the murder of Sharon Bennett in Ennis in early 2021, Detective Garda Noelle Bergin...

‘Our lives are devastated…life is not long enough for what he did to my daughter. It was a brutal, brutal attack’

THE father of 29-year-old Sharon Bennett, who was repeatedly kicked and had her head "danced on" by her partner in a public toilet, has...

Man kicked and stamped partner causing her death, court told

A 35-year-old man carried out "a violent attack" on his partner, mother-of-two Sharon Bennett, by "repeatedly" kicking and stamping on her head in a...

16 years for taking life akin to a ‘slap on wrist’

THE family of a young Kilrush woman who was murdered 16 years ago are “up in a heap” over the release of her convicted...

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