Mr. Johnson was sentenced to one year in prison. Just one.
The Special Criminal Court is back in the news, because an interim report into it is being published in a couple of weeks. We can say something with absolute certainty right now about that interim report: It will make absolutely no difference. Regardless of what the report says, the court will stay. The court will […]
Yesterday, a cavalcade of cars made their way around Ballymurphy in West Belfast. The small streets were crowded as a whole community celebrated a vital, historical ruling. Photographers captured the jubilant, delighted faces: neighbours hugging each other in the bright sunshine, relief and joy and tears and smiles from the families who had waited so long for this day. White […]
A New York parent who wants to marry their own adult offspring is suing the state to overturn laws that ban incest, arguing that their “individual autonomy” is being infringed. According to court papers, as reported by the New York Post, the parent has requested to remain anonymous, because they are aware that their request […]
New legislation published by the Minister for Justice Helen McEntee will ensure that all persons convicted for a second or subsequent offence for possession of firearms with intent to endanger life will no longer face a mandatory minimum 10-year sentence. The new legislation will also ensure that anyone convicted of carrying a firearm with […]
The girls on Kevin Harty’s computer were mostly aged between eight years old, and sixteen years old. Some were nine. Some ten. Some eleven. One of the girls on his computer was a baby, aged between one and two. Thankfully, the court was spared the details of exactly what was being done to the children […]
“If you are a pauper, yes. If you are a millionaire, yes. But if you are a middle-class person on a middle-class salary, litigation in the High Court is ruinous.” These were the words of Mr Justice Kelly as he assumed the chairmanship of the Review of the Administration of Civil Justice in 2018. He […]
Just when many of us have become virtual prisoners in our own homes to help fight Covid-19, authorities have decided that they might start releasing actual prisoners from actual prisons during the crisis. First those with three and then those with six months left on their sentences would be released, say authorities, and maybe even […]
An interesting report this morning from TheJournal.ie: THE NUMBER OF people deported from Ireland last year who were here illegally or who had failed in their asylum application rose significantly to 293. That was almost as many deportations as had taken place in the previous two years, when 140 (2017) and 163 (2018) people were […]
People everywhere were sickened and horrified last April when three teenage boys became the victims of an acid attack in Earlscourt Housing Estate in Waterford. A large group of older boys, most around 18/19 years old, threw acidic drain cleaner in the younger boys’ faces without provocation. The victims received severe burns and scars to […]
Sentencing in Ireland is, not to put too fine a point on it, a sick joke: “A father who raped his adult special needs daughter while her mother was terminally ill in hospital has been jailed for seven years. The 66-year-old Munster man, who cannot be identified in order to protect his daughter’s identity, pleaded […]
In today’s sex-soaked media, it was gratifying to see a leading champion of unrestricted sexual freedom, the New York Times, going bonkers about the wickedness of pornography. The headline summarises its graphic, scrupulously researched and highly disturbing article: “The Internet Is Overrun With Images of Child Sexual Abuse. What Went Wrong?” The figures it cites are […]