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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

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

Jonathan Dowdall's lawyers claim he was 'duped' and put in 'firing line' for Regency Hotel attack

Dowdall is appealing the severity of his four-year sentence for facilitating the Regency attack

Irish Mirror

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Hutch relative Christopher Coakley 'needed drugs money' when he stabbed passer-by with scissors

Coakley - who has 124 previous convictions - knocked the victim, a doctor, from his e-scooter and stabbed him seven times, the Central Criminal Court has heard

Irish Mirror

Jonathan Dowdall appeal against jail term put back pending outcome of Gerry Hutch trial

Dowdall launched his appeal against his four-year jail-term for facilitating the Hutch gang in the notorious murder of David Byrne

Irish Mirror

Dublin mum pleads guilty to manslaughter after stabbing man over parking space

Christina Anderson, who has been a patient at the Central Mental Hospital since shortly after she stabbed 39-year-old Gareth Kelly to death, had previously pleaded not guilty to murder by reason of insanity at the Central Criminal Court

Dublin Live

'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

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'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

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

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

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

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

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

Ex-Irish soldier Lisa Smith jailed for 15 months for IS membership

The 40-year-old was convicted in May of being a member of the so-called Islamic State group but acquitted of a separate charge of financing terrorism

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Former Irish soldier to be sentenced for Islamic State membership

Lisa Smith, 40, was found guilty in May of membership of the terror group.

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

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