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Two jailed for having arms, ammunition
Two Dublin men have been jailed for six years at the Special Criminal Court for the possession of firearms and ammunition.
John Brock (35), Homelawn Road, Tallaght, Dublin, and Thomas Morris (29), Meadowlands Mews, Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin, had pleaded guilty to the unlawful possession of firearms at Piperstown Hill, Tallaght, Dublin, on June 6th last year.
The arms included a double- and a single- barrelled sawn-off shotgun, a bolt-action rifle, a telescopic sight for a rifle and 11 shotgun cartridges.
Mr Justice Paul Butler, presiding at the three-judge court, sentenced them yesterday to six years for possession of the firearms and six years for possession of the ammunition. The sentences are to run concurrently.
Pub sale fee case for High Court
A claim by solicitor Gerald Kean for more than €30,000 fees for handling a pub sale is to go to trial in the next law term, it was decided in the High Court yesterday
Mr Kean alleges that Robert Murphy, Cornwall, Killurin, Co Wexford, and Pádraig and Michael O'Gorman owe him €31,340 and interest.
Mr Murphy and the O'Gormans, Adamstown, Enniscorthy, Co Wexford, claim they have already met Mr Kean's full fees for handling the purchase of Mooney's pub, Commercial Quay, Wexford.
Jailed for petrol bomb attack
A man has been jailed for four months for his part in a petrol-bomb attack on two gardaí in Co Cork.
Darren McSweeney (19) , Carrigaline, Co Cork, pleaded guilty at Cork District Court to possessing a petrol bomb with intent to cause damage to a Garda patrol car at Innismore, Ballincollig, on October 31st last.
A co-accused, Glen Chivers, Innismore Drive, Ballincollig, has also pleaded guilty to possessing a petrol bomb with intent to cause damage to the patrol car.
Judge Riordan sentenced McSweeney to four months in jail for possessing the petrol bomb consecutive to a two-year reactiviated circuit court sentence, while he remanded Chivers in continuing custody to April 28th for sentence.
Garda fails to stop inquiry
A Garda has lost a High Court bid to stop the reactivation of an internal inquiry into his conduct after the DPP dropped a prosecution against him for allegedly accessing child pornography on a computer in Garda Headquarters.
Mr Justice John MacMenamim yesterday dismissed the application by Garda Darach Kennedy (43), Dunshaughlin Garda station, for an order restraining the Garda Commissioner from holding an inquiry into his conduct or from progressing disciplinary proceedings into alleged breaches of discipline.
The judge said it was "a striking feature" of the case that Garda Kennedy had not denied making admissions in a December 2002 interview with gardaí that his searches were responsible for certain images on the Garda computer.
A prosecution was initiated in 2004 against Garda Kennedy on two charges of accessing gay websites, including images of naked boys, in Garda Headquarters, and at his home in Castleknock between 2000 and 2002. On February 4th, 2005, the DPP withdrew the charges.