# Special Criminal Court
Last week
21st May 2023 - 27th May 2023
# no jury trial
Special Criminal Court expert review to be published next month
A vote to extend laws that underpins the Special Criminal Court will take place before the summer recess.
This month
May 2023
# Special Criminal Court
Regency shooting: Hutch associates who acted as getaway drivers given sentences totalling 17.5 years
Paul Murphy (61) and his co-accused Jason Bonney (52) were found guilty last month.
# The Monk
State to oppose bid by Gerard Hutch to reimburse his legal fees for Regency shooting trial
The application for costs will be heard in court on Friday.
Last month
April 2023
# Dáil Debate
Harris urges all parties to vote for Special Criminal Court renewal in wake of Regency verdict
The Justice Minister was critical of Sinn Féin for abstaining on votes around the Special Criminal Court.
# Podcast
The Explainer: Everything you need to know about the trial of Gerry Hutch
Frank Greaney, courts correspondent with Newstalk and Today FM, joins us on this week’s episode to delve into the case. We examine the origins of the feud, explain who exactly The Monk is, look at key moments from the trial, and explore the origins of the Special Criminal Court.
# regency hotel
Gerry Hutch walks free from court after not guilty verdict in Regency Hotel murder trial
Paul Murphy (61) and Jason Bonney (50) were found guilty of the charges they faced.
# regency trial
Hutch had monk-like self-control in the post-verdict frenzy, but his composure was tested in court
Hutch had to watch his co-accused being convicted before he himself was acquitted.
This year
2023
# Special Criminal Court
Kinahan Cartel manager Douglas 'Oscar' Glynn jailed for managing 'industrial scale' drugs warehouse
Glynn is already serving a 6.5-year jail sentence for his involvement in a foiled Kinahan Cartel plot to murder James ‘Mago’ Gately.
# Special Criminal Court
International gang member from Co Meath asks court to return his 'high-end' Mercedes
Thomas Rooney (53) is also appealing the length of his six-year sentence for money laundering.
# Special Criminal Court
Two men jailed for assisting in 'disgraceful and inhuman' murder of Keane Mulready-Woods
Keane Mulready-Woods (17), was last seen alive in Drogheda on January 12, 2020.
# regency trial
Special Criminal Court to deliver verdict in Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch trial in April
The judge said the court would notify parties if the judgment for the three accused is available before 17 April.
# regency trial
Lawyers for Gerard Hutch don't expect to call any evidence on his behalf, trial hears
The State is expected to conclude its case against Hutch and his two co-accused tomorrow.
# Jason Bonney
Regency Trial: Lawyers say it will be their case that jeep was driven by accused's father
Jason Bonney is accused of participating in the murder of Kinahan Cartel member David Byrne in 2016.
# Regency Hotel murder
Dowdall asked garda if he and family could enter witness protection, court hears
A garda gave evidence today in the Special Criminal Court.
Last year
2022
# Special Criminal Court
Gerry Hutch trial: Dowdall denies planning 'mass murder' on secret tapes
Under cross-examination for a fifth day, Dowdall was asked to explain to the court parts of what was said in recorded conversations.
# Special Criminal Court
Jonathan Dowdall tells trial he did not know there was 'this big Hutch criminal organisation'
Dowdall admitted he was “reckless” when he helped book a room at the Regency Hotel.
# Brendan Murray
Man accused of murdering his elderly mother pleads not guilty by reason of insanity
Brendan Murray spoke only to confirm his name and enter his not guilty plea when the sole charge of murder was put to him.
# regency hotel trial
Jonathan Dowdall tells court that Hutch said he and another man had shot David Byrne
Dowdall said Hutch told him that he and another man shot David Byrne dead at the Regency hotel.
# Court
Dropping Dowdall murder charge was 'powerful' incentive for statement against Hutch, lawyers argue
Dowdall intends to give evidence in the coming days implicating Hutch in the murder at the Regency Hotel.
# Special Criminal Court
Gerry Hutch trial: Conversations taped by gardaí in Northern Ireland were obtained illegally, but can be included, court rules
The defence argued that using the tapes should not have been allowed as part of the recording took place beyond the borders of the state.
THE MORNING LEAD
The Dowdall-Hutch tapes: What the court heard from secret garda recordings
The uncovered conversation reveals the two men’s discussions about gardaí, the Kinahan cartel, and Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald.
# regency trial
Gerry Hutch trial: Permission to deploy garda bugging device sought under 'culture of secrecy'
The defence is objecting to the admissibility of almost eight hours of a ten hour audio recording of conversations between Hutch and Jonathan Dowdall.
# regency trial
Hutch recordings: Dowdall tells 'The Monk' that accused's 'best move' was 'particular yokes used'
The prosecution alleges this is a reference to three AK-47 assault rifles used by the gunmen who murdered David Byrne.
# HUTCH TRIAL
Hutch trial hears garda tracker records believed destroyed have now been recovered
Prosecutors told the court that the data had been found on a desktop computer that was listed for destruction.
# Special Criminal Court
Trial date set for men charged with helping kill Noel 'Duck Egg' Kirwan
The trial is set to begin on 11 January 2024.
# Hutch
Court told Hutch was seen leaving Jonathan Dowdall's house just a week after Regency shooting
A surveillance garda saw Hutch riding a black motorcycle out of the former Sinn Féin councillor’s home just a week after the shooting.
# regency trial
Surveillance garda saw Gerry Hutch and Dowdall meet man later caught with AK-47s, court hears
Gerard ‘The Monk’ Hutch (59) denies the murder of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel in 2016.
# Special Criminal Court
Regency Hotel murder trial view CCTV of alleged dissident republican gunman escaping
Gerard ‘The Monk’ Hutch (59) denies the murder of Kinahan cartel member David Byrne (33) in 2016.
# regency hotel shooting
Gerry Hutch told Jonathan Dowdall he was 'one of the team' that shot David Byrne, trial hears
The 59-year-old is accused of killing David Byrne at Dublin’s Regency Hotel in 2016.
# regency hotel
Former Sinn Féin councillor Jonathan Dowdall sentenced to 4 years for facilitating murder
David Byrne was murdered at the hotel on 4 February, 2016.
# Gerry Hutch
Gerry Hutch trial: Case adjourned for a week as court hears Dowdall willing to act as witness
David Byrne was murdered during a boxing weigh-in at the Regency Hotel, Dublin in 2016.
# Supreme Court
Supreme Court clears way for Hutch and Dowdall murder trials to proceed before Special Criminal Court
Both men are charged with the murder of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel in 2016.
# Michael Carroll
Man to go before Special Criminal Court charged with three attempted murders
He is charged with three counts of attempted murder on two men.
# Courts
Lisa Smith has already served a sentence and should not be jailed, lawyers tell court
The court heard that Smith already served a custodial sentence in Syria and has lived with a 13-hour daily curfew since 2019.
# Non-jury court
Special Criminal Court extended for 12 months as Sinn Féin again abstains in Dáil vote
The Offences Against the State Act has been renewed for an additional 12 months.
# Murder Charge
Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch to seek pre-trial hearing and application to dismiss Regency charge
David Byrne was killed when five men stormed the building which was hosting a boxing weigh-in.
# Adrian Donohoe
Aaron Brady to stand trial in Special Criminal Court for plotting to pervert course of justice
Brady was handed a life sentence in 2020 for the fatal shooting of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe.
# Courts
Lisa Smith's lawyers make fresh bid to have charges against her dismissed
If the Special Criminal Court does not accept the arguments made by her lawyers, they will reveal their verdicts on 30 May.
# Special Criminal Court
Gerry Hutch and Dowdall fail in bids to prevent their murder trials being heard by non-jury court
‘The Monk’ and the ex-Sinn Féin councillor argued they shouldn’t be tried before the non-jury Special Criminal Court over the 2016 Regency Hotel attack.
# Special Criminal Court
Court will consider verdicts in Lisa Smith trial
The former Irish soldier has pleaded not guilty to membership of an unlawful terrorist group, namely Islamic State.
