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Minister for Justice Helen McEntee described the killings as a "tragedy, so awful and heart-breaking." [24] Taoiseach Micheál Martin said he was shocked and appalled as was the entire country at the deaths. [25] On his morning radio programme on Monday 5 September, Irish broadcaster Ryan Tubridy broke down as he tried to discuss the incident. [26]
It was the first murder of a tourist in Mauritius, [2] [3] and the Mauritian Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam expressed his sympathy to the Harte and McAreavey families. [4] The two hotel workers who were accused of her murder were tried and declared not-guilty by the Supreme Court of Mauritius: they were acquitted on 12 July 2012. [5] [6]
In the days following Murphy's death, the Garda Síochána (Irish police) questioned 31-year-old Slovak Romani father-of-five Jozef Puška, who was subsequently arrested and charged with her murder. On 9 November 2023, following a three-week trial at Dublin's Central Criminal Court , a jury found Puška guilty by unanimous verdict.
The murder of Robert McCartney occurred in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on the night of 30 January 2005 and was carried out by members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army. McCartney, born in 1971, was a Roman Catholic and lived in the predominantly nationalist Short Strand area of east Belfast , and was said by his family to have been a ...
Full confidence has been expressed in the Irish Justice Minister and the head of the Irish police after they faced calls to quit following the worst rioting seen in the state for decades.
The evidence of Dwyer's sadistic sexual practices led to the murder being called one of the most shocking crimes in Irish history. [ 2 ] A subsequent appeal by Dwyer, which questioned the legal basis for retaining the mobile phone metadata (which was used in the prosecution case against him), was upheld by the Court of Justice of the European ...
Bailey was convicted in absentia in Paris of murder and sentenced to 25 years in prison on May 31, 2019. [36] French law claims to have the right of jurisdiction over the murder of a French citizen anywhere in the world. Bailey's Irish lawyer Frank Buttimer said “France has no respect for our justice system. We are a democratic country."
The murder of Patricia O'Connor (19 May 1956 – 29 May 2017) occurred in Dublin. [1] Patricia O'Connor was an Irish woman whose dismembered remains were found scattered along a road in the Wicklow Mountains in June 2017. [2] Several members of her family were subsequently convicted of concealing her murder by Kieran Greene.