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First picture of garda killer Aaron Brady behind bars as he welcomes his parents

And our picture is the first of him since he was extradited from the US and snapped outside Dundalk court in May 2017 over a stolen car offence.

Irish Mirror

New life for Jonathan Dowdall will cost taxpayers €100,000 - as state to rent him home

Dowdall will have to give up his life and start again abroad after he dramatically agreed late last week to make a 50-page statement to gardai

Irish Mirror

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'

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Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch 'anxious' for trial to go ahead as gardaí scramble to protect key witness Dowdall

The trial of Hutch now faces a delay over what the court heard was the addition of new evidence in the case over the past week

Irish Mirror

Gangster who gardai believe organised kidnap and torture of Kevin Lunney died of heart failure

A pathologist said his heart was in such poor condition, he could have collapsed at any time.

Irish Mirror

Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch Regency Hotel trial postponed by a week in light of new evidence

Defence counsel requested the trial be delayed until at least next Monday in light of significant new evidence served last week

Dublin Live

Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch trial over killing of David Byrne in Regency Hotel postponed for at least a week

A ring of steel had been formed around the Criminal Courts of Justice in Dublin earlier as armed gardaí stood watch outside the building on Parkgate Street

Irish Mirror

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Jonathan Dowdall 'implicates others' in Garda statement as he prepares to give evidence in Monk murder trial

The former Sinn Féin councillor pleaded guilty last week to facilitating the 2016 attack on David Byrne at the Regency Hotel

Irish Mirror

Senior Hutch members set to flee Ireland as 'gangland trial of the century' begins

The trial against Hutch, who denies Byrne’s murder, begins at the Special Criminal Court today and is now being described as the 'gangland trial of the century'

Irish Mirror

Hutch gang members' fears as 'gangland trial of the century' begins

The trial against The Monk, which kicks off at the Special Criminal Court today, is now being described as the “gangland trial of the century”

Dublin Live

Scissor Sister Charlotte Mulhall and ISIS bride Lisa Smith become best friends in prison

'You would never picture the two of them talking but they seem to get on pretty well'

Irish Mirror

Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch 'laughed' at gardai after he was arrested and taken from cell

The 58-year-old was quizzed for a number of hours at a Dublin Garda station about his suspected involvement in organised crime

Dublin Live

Ex-Sinn Fein councillor Jonathan Dowdall and dad plead guilty to facilitating Regency Hotel murder

Last April, former Sinn Fein councillor Jonathan Dowdall (44), with an address at Navan Road, Cabra, Dublin 7 was charged at the non-jury court with the murder of Mr Byrne at the hotel

Dublin Live

Jailed ISIS bride Lisa Smith will eat and exercise alone in prison after conviction for being a member of the terrorist group

The 40-year-old, jailed for 15 months at the Special Criminal Court on Friday, is the first person to be convicted in an Irish court of membership in another country of an Islamic terrorist organisation

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Former Irish soldier Lisa Smith jailed for 15 months for ISIS membership

Smith's lawyers have asked the court to permit Ms Smith to be released on bail pending an appeal

Dublin Live

Judges refuse to hear Gerry Hutch's bid to dismiss Regency murder charge

Hutch, 59, is accused of the murder of Kinahan gang member David Byrne at the Regency Hotel in 2016, and is due to stand trial with four others in October

Irish Mirror

Court hears Lisa Smith was 'extremely vulnerable' and was 'treated like a servant' as barrister argues for suspended sentence

Ex-Defence Forces member Lisa Smith, 40, was found guilty of membership of the so-called Islamic State (IS) terror group, and was acquitted of a separate charge of financing terrorism, after a nine-week trial at Dublin’s non-jury Special Criminal Court

Dublin Live

CAB to serve court papers on Daniel Kinahan by registered post after discovering addresses

CAB has been trying to serve papers on Kinahan since April

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Radio France Internationale

Final observations on behalf of the 'witnesses of witnesses' at Paris terror trial

This has been a difficult week at the Special Criminal Court, where the men suspected of involvement or complicity in the November 2015 terrorist attacks are being tried. The hearings have been devoted to the final observations from lawyers representing the survivors and the relatives of the bereaved.

Radio France Internationale

Final words at Paris attacks trial and complaints over compensation

Lawyers for the victims of the November 2015 terrorist attacks are continuing their concluding remarks. The Special Criminal Court is a theatre of contradiction, with the black robes offering everything from flamboyant rhetoric to dignified common sense. The 14 accused who are physically present show rare signs of attention.

Radio France Internationale

Republican justice and the dark shroud of fundamentalist Islam

On Wednesday, the Special Criminal Court where the Paris terror trial is taking place listened to the closing arguments of lawyers representing the survivors and the families of victims, and those who chose not to join the collective presentation organised last week by dozens of their colleagues.

The Conversation

Islamic State: how western European states are failing to protect 28,000 children born to foreign fighters

The Irish national and former soldier, Lisa Smith, has been found guilty by the Special Criminal Court in Dublin, of joining Islamic State (IS). Smith left Dundalk in 2015, bound for Syria. On her return to Ireland in 2019 she was charged with membership of an unlawful terrorist group and…

Radio France Internationale

Long delay at Paris terror trial as nine accused refuse to take their places in court

Tuesday's hearing at the Special Criminal Court was delayed for several hours because nine of the eleven prisoners accused of involvement in the November 2015 Paris terrorist attacks refused to take their places in the glass security enclosure.They were protesting in support of Muhammad Usman, one of their number, who…

AFP

Irish court finds ex-soldier Lisa Smith guilty of joining IS

Dublin (AFP) - Three judges at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin on Monday found former soldier Lisa Smith guilty of joining the so-called Islamic State group in Syria.

Evening Standard

Lisa Smith: Former Irish soldier convicted of being a member of Islamic State

Smith, 40, wiped away tears as the guilty verdict was read out by the judge

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