The Latest Breaking News from Michael OHiggins SC

Crew hired for ship with largest cocaine seizure were under ‘financial pressure’

The men succumbed to the temptation to earn thousands, a court has heard.

Evening Standard · Jun 4, 2025

Court told line between IS sympathiser and member ‘crossed’ by ex-Irish soldier

Lisa Smith’s defence team had argued her IS membership conviction ‘falls short of Irish law’.

The Independent UK · Apr 11, 2025

Ex-Irish soldier’s IS membership conviction falls short of Irish law, court told

Lisa Smith is appealing against her 2022 conviction for membership of IS.

Evening Standard · Apr 11, 2025

'It is very hard to live' - Husband of woman stabbed and killed on way home from work at IFSC says in statement

“Humans lack humans, we lack each other’s love, what we share is happiness and sorrows, but now it is very hard to live"

Irish Mirror · Dec 22, 2022

'I'm dying, what should we do?' - The heartbreaking words of innocent Urantsetseg Tserendorj stabbed to death by teen as she walked home

The hand that delivered the fatal blow to Urantsetseg belonged to a then 14-year-old drug addict

Irish Mirror · Nov 11, 2022

Trial told Mongolian woman stabbed in Dublin attack died after irreversible blood loss to brain

A 16-year-old male, who cannot be named as he is a minor, has pleaded not guilty to the murder

Irish Mirror · Nov 2, 2022

Lisa Smith's lawyers tell Court of Appeal that former soldier was at 'lowest level' of ISIS

'There is nothing [in the evidence] beyond that she kept house for a man who did not even regard her as a person'

Irish Mirror · Oct 4, 2022

Retired Garda superintendent jailed for six years after cannabis haul found in his home

Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard that John Murphy (62) had built up financial debts of €855,000 due to poor business decisions made in the 10 years after he retired from the force

Dublin Live · Oct 4, 2022

Ex-Garda jailed for six years after huge cannabis haul found in his home

The court heard that John Murphy had 'whatever the opposite of the Midas touch is' and that any investments he made 'went down the drain'

Irish Mirror · Oct 4, 2022

Boy who pushed bike causing woman to fall from DART platform will avoid detention

“I'm not just an image on CCTV,” the teenage girl said in her statement, which was read out in court by Garda Kevin O'Boyle. “I'm a human being standing here before you today.”

Irish Mirror · Jul 26, 2022