A round-up of other courts news in brief
'Celebrity Bainisteoir' can stay on air
A man has lost his High Court bid to have the RTÉ TV programme Celebrity Bainisteoir programme taken off air.
Patrick Kinsella, Callowhill, Newtown, Co Wicklow, has claimed it was he came up with the idea for the show and that he made a presentation about it to RTÉ in 2007.
He has brought proceedings claiming breach of copyright against RTÉ and its commissioning editors, Gráinne McAleer and Alice O’Sullivan, along with writer Fiona Looney.
Yesterday, Mr Justice Frank Clarke refused to grant him an injunction to take the show off the air pending the hearing of his main action over alleged breach of copyright.
Mr Justice Clarke said an injunction would cause irreparable damage to RTÉ and would involve a significant interference in its schedules and advertising built around the programme.
Mr Kinsella claimed the reality TV game/sport show he devised was to be called Top Coach, Top Manager or Top Team.
He claimed he made a presentation to RTÉ in August 2007 but, the following year, they brought out Celebrity Bainisteoir. RTÉ has rejected his claims and said the idea had been suggested by Setanta TV before Mr Kinsella brought his idea to them.
Guilty plea over guns and bullets
A Dublin man has pleaded guilty at the Special Criminal Court to possession of firearms and ammunition in January.
Dean Byrne (22), Coolevin, Ballybrack, Co Dublin, admitted the unlawful possession of five .38 revolvers and 64 rounds of ammunition. He was remanded in custody for sentencing until next month.
INLA suspect ‘fled from scene’
A man accused of INLA membership fled from a premises in Cork city when the owner, a local businessman, returned home with gardaí, the Special Criminal Court heard yesterday.
The court also heard that three knives, cable-ties and duct tape found in the coal shed did not belong to the premises’ owner.
Gerard Kelleher (28), Cathedral View Walk, Kevin Street, Dublin, Neil Myles (54), no fixed abode, Edward McGarrigle (43), Melmont Gardens, Strabane, Co Tyrone, and John McCrossan (47), Ballycoleman Estate, Strabane, Co Tyrone, have all pleaded not guilty to membership of the INLA.
Man viewed child porn at web cafe
A man who was caught looking at child pornography in an internet cafe, leading to the discovery of more than 1,000 images in his home, has received a two-year suspended sentence and €500 fine.
Radoslaw Psuj (34), a political science graduate, told gardaí he did not get sexual pleasure from the images but that he saw them as a “trophy” for finding them and “being better than the computer program”.
Psuj, the Oaks, Pelletstown Manor, River Road, Ashtown, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to possession of the files.
In July 2006, he was in Cybernet internet cafe on North Circular Road when a customer noticed he was looking at sexual images of children.
The customer alerted a nearby garda and a computer was taken for examination from his then home in North Portland Street where he lived with his then pregnant girlfriend.