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Dublin Live
2 hours ago
- Dublin Live
On-the-run teen arrested in AirBnB after escaping Dublin garda station
Our community members are treated to special offers, promotions and adverts from us and our partners. You can check out at any time. More info An on-the-run teen who escaped from a Garda station in north Dublin and is suspected of committing crimes while being at large has been arrested after he was discovered asleep in an AirBnB in the midlands - with a suspected stolen vehicle outside. The 19-year-old thug - who is a relative of paralysed Drogheda feud mob boss Owen Maguire - is due to appear before the district court in the Criminal Courts of Justice this morning. It's alleged he jumped over the wall at Balbriggan Garda Station on Wednesday, April 23 after he was arrested for alleged criminal offences. He had appeared before Balbriggan District Court earlier that day on charges of burglary, unauthorised taking of a vehicle and theft of fuel from a service station. Bail was refused after the prosecuting garda told the judge "no conditions of bail would be acceptable." While gardai were processing the teen's prison warrant at the garda station, it's believed the thug was allowed outside to have a cigarette but managed to jump the wall of the garda station. He continued to be a fugitive until Thursday, June 19 when he was arrested. It's suspected he continued on a crime rampage - until Thursday - when a number armed gardai from Dublin discovered him in an AirBnB in the midlands. A BMW, suspected of being stolen from outside a property in Mayo, was also discovered outside the property. While on the run, the 19-year-old - who is suspected of committing a number of burglaries and car thefts while on the run - taunted gardai by posting videos of members of the force going about their a statement An Garda Siochana said: "Gardaí investigating the escape from Garda custody of a male, aged in his late teens, on 23rd April arrested the male on Thursday, June 19 who is detained at a Garda Station in Dublin. "He has been charged in relation to this incident and is due to appear before Dublin District Court at the Criminal Courts of Justice (Court No. 5) on Friday June 20 at 10.30am. Investigations are ongoing." Join our Dublin Live breaking news service on WhatsApp. Click this link to receive your daily dose of Dublin Live content. We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don't like our community, you can check out any time you like. If you're curious, you can read our Privacy Notice. For all the latest news from Dublin and surrounding areas visit our homepage.
Irish Daily Mirror
14 hours ago
- Irish Daily Mirror
Teenager who escaped from Garda station arrested after two months on the run
An on-the-run thug - who escaped from a Garda station in north Dublin and is suspected of committing crimes while being at large - has been arrested after he was discovered asleep in an AirBnB in the midlands - with a suspected stolen vehicle outside. The 19-year-old thug - who is a relative of paralysed Drogheda feud mob boss Owen Maguire - is due to appear before the district court in the Criminal Courts of Justice this morning. It's alleged he jumped over the wall at Balbriggan Garda Station on Wednesday, April 23 after he was arrested for alleged criminal offences. He had appeared before Balbriggan District Court earlier that day on charges of burglary, unauthorised taking of a vehicle and theft of fuel from a service station. Bail was refused after the prosecuting garda told the judge 'no conditions of bail would be acceptable.' While gardai were processing the teen's prison warrant at the garda station, it's believed the thug was allowed outside to have a cigarette but managed to jump the wall of the garda station. He continued to be a fugitive until Thursday, June 19 when he was arrested. It's suspected he continued on a crime rampage - until Thursday - when a number armed gardai from Dublin discovered him in an AirBnB in the Midlands. A BMW, suspected of being stolen from outside a property in Mayo, was also discovered outside the property. While on the run, the 19-year-old - who is suspected of committing a number of burglaries and car thefts while on the run - taunted gardai by posting videos of members of the force going about their duties. In a statement An Garda Siochana said: 'Gardaí investigating the escape from Garda custody of a male, aged in his late teens, on 23rd April arrested the male on Thursday, June 19 who is detained at a Garda Station in Dublin. 'He has been charged in relation to this incident and is due to appear before Dublin District Court at the Criminal Courts of Justice (Court No. 5) on Friday June 20 at 10.30am. 'Investigations are ongoing.'
Irish Examiner
2 days ago
- Irish Examiner
Anthony Nash was arrested two days before drink-driving charge dismissed
Former Cork All Star hurler Anthony Nash was arrested for public disorder in Dublin just two days before a drink-driving charge against him was dismissed in Cork. Mr Nash, a former Cork hurling goalkeeper, was arrested in Dublin and taken to Mountjoy garda station on Saturday evening where he was later charged. 'Gardaí arrested a man in relation to a public order incident in Dublin 1 that occurred on the evening of Saturday 14th June 2025,' a garda spokesperson said. 'The man (aged in his 40s) was arrested under the Public Order Act, and taken to a Garda Station in the Dublin area. 'He has since been charged, and is due to appear before the Criminal Courts of Justice at a later date. Investigations are ongoing.' Mr Nash was arrested in a Dublin 1 hotel after gardaí were contacted over concerns that the star hurler 'needed help', the Independent reports. Mr Nash may have been attending an event in the hotel following a rugby final in Croke Park. Drink-driving charge A drink-driving charge was dismissed against Mr Nash in Cork District Court two days later on Monday. Mr Nash had allegedly asked a garda in Cork 'do you know who I am?' after she found him drunk at his car which was crashed in a ditch and partially sticking out onto a "busy thoroughfare" blocking a traffic lane on the evening of August, 9, 2023. Mr Nash reportedly told the garda 'I'm drunk' when she found him at the scene of the crash in Cloghroe, Blarney, Co Cork. Mr Nash, aged 40, allegedly told gardaí 'my life is ruined' when he was arrested that night, a court previously heard. He also allegedly told gardaí he had been driving at the time of the crash, the court heard. Mr Nash was twice named an All-Star with an inter-county career lasting 15 years. He played for Cork in the All-Ireland final against Clare in 2013, which Cork lost following a replay. Mr Nash played as goalkeeper for the Cork senior hurling team for 15 seasons before retiring in 2020. He previously played for Kanturk and Limerick South Liberties club. Read More Former Cork hurling All Star Anthony Nash has drink-driving case dismissed
Sunday World
10-06-2025
- Sunday World
Deirdre Reynolds: I believe my stalker had a 'rape or kill' list of women in Irish media
SPEAKING UP | Under cross examination, I was asked if being threatened with rape or murder was not just 'part and parcel' of my high-profile job. Typically penned in green, by an author appropriately mad as a box of frogs, over the course of almost two decades writing for national tabloid newspapers, it's fair to say I've had one or two – though none to rival the well-known travel writer who once received human faeces gift-wrapped in one of their articles, in a large brown envelope with address crazily scrawled in, what else, but green ink. Among fellow hacks, we laugh about this so-called 'fan mail', which now more typically comes in the form of emails or Facebook or Instagram DMs. August 14, 2023, was the day I stopped laughing. Mark McAnaw first addressed me as a 'proper little sort' whom he wanted to 'see in various styles of sexy underwear while wearing heels' and 'give a really, really, really good seeing to'. Amanda Brunker and Deirdre Reynolds Just days later, when I hadn't agreed to 'a f*cking basic thing like a normal phone call', so that he could 'get this on the go on a regular basis', the 53 year-old British man was promising to come to Dublin 'armed to the teeth' on a specific date to 'put a bullet in [my] f*cking nut'. On Thursday, the 'IRA Top Boy' and 'most powerful god there ever was', as he also referred to himself in the string of frightening mails that followed, was reduced to anything but, as he was sentenced to 11 years in prison for harassing me, Nicola Tallant and Amanda Brunker. Sitting in the back of Court 10 at the Criminal Courts of Justice, I couldn't help but eject a couple of quiet tears of relief, partly for myself, but also for every other woman out there who's ever faked a phone call to their sister while walking back to their car after dark or kept a tiny body spray in their handbag for more than just freshening up while out and about. As he stood up to whisper with his defence team, spruced up for the day that was in it in a freshly-ironed white shirt and navy bomber jacket, mostly though, I was thinking of the young foreign student, who was just 19 at the time he raped her at a house in Donegal in 2010, and how she had resisted so strongly that the radiator had been pulled from her bedroom wall; while selfishly glad he'll never get the chance to do the same to me as he'd schemed. Amid all the legalese, I didn't even realise that the schizophrenic, whose 30-plus year history of the most stomach-turning violence against women also includes kidnap, had just volunteered to spend an extra year locked up rather than seek medical help, among other bond conditions. Nicola Tallant When Judge Pauline Codd praised us for remaining 'calmly courageous' throughout the near two-year case, which began with me casually giving a statement to a detective in an office at work, I didn't have the heart to tell her how my knees had damn near buckled the first time I had to walk right past him to take the stand. Or how it had been pounding so furiously coming up to other court dates that it took an ECG, cardiac MRI, and several hundred euro to confirm that the tightly-wound knot in my chest was just the panic of breaking one of the golden rules of journalism, by becoming the story. 'I'm glad he's not on the streets', says victim as convicted rapist who threatened 3 female journalists is jailed' – announced just one of the many headlines about the case on Friday. Victim? Surely, they didn't mean me? But, surreally, they did, and as the 'Fair play, missus' messages from everyone from colleagues to cousins to old school friends started trickling in, I also didn't reply how if I'd known from the beginning that I'd wind up like the proverbial deer in headlights on RTÉ's Six-One News or Morning Ireland, I might simply have dragged McAnaw's messages into the trash folder, where they belonged, said nothing, and hoped for the best. Mark McAnaw was jailed for 11 years News in 90 Seconds - Tuesday June 10 The 'danger to [the] public', as Judge Codd called him on Thursday, didn't really give me that option, however, when he told me he had '30 girls on [his] list' – among them 'all the 2FM girls' – whom he would 'keep emailing' if I didn't 'start replying to [his] messages'. 'What happens to you lot now is firmly in your court,' he chillingly warned me. It was my strong belief then, and remains so now, that McAnaw, just like Englishman Gavin Plumb, who was jailed for plotting to kidnap and murder Holly Willoughby last year, has a fantasy 'rape or kill' list of women in Irish media. In speaking up, I can only cross my fingers that I haven't jumped straight to the top of it should he ever be free to torment us again. Under cross examination, I was asked if being threatened with rape or murder was not just 'part and parcel' of my high-profile job. Read more One last time with feeling: it's not. Nor should it be. Now imagine how the woman who mailed me in recent days to say how she'd been asked by a female Garda if she found her stalker 'attractive', or the countless rape survivors who've been quizzed about their underwear choices or alcohol consumption in a system more usually weighted in favour of perpetrators than victims must feel. Deemed 'untreatable' by a forensic psychiatrist, as well as being at 'highest risk' for re-offending, McAnaw has been ordered to stay at least 10 miles away from me for the rest of his life. As my heart rate slowly returns to normal, moreover, let's hope he never gets anywhere near any woman or girl ever again.
Irish Examiner
09-06-2025
- Irish Examiner
Kinahan cartel leaders 'should be worried' after extradition of senior lieutenant
The Garda Commissioner said the leaders of the Kinahan cartel in Dubai 'should be worried' after senior lieutenant Sean McGovern was extradited from there to Ireland to face gangland charges. Drew Harris urged members, both junior and senior, in the cartel — who are either at large or in jail — to think about whether or not to help gardaí in their efforts to bring the leaders to justice. Mr Harris was commenting on the transfer over a week ago of McGovern — seen as the right-hand man of cartel leader Daniel Kinahan — by gardaí and military pilots from Dubai. He was brought to the Criminal Courts of Justice to be charged with directing and facilitating an organised crime group and with a Kinahan-Hutch feud murder. Speaking in Garda Headquarters in Phoenix Park, Mr Harris said the leaders, who are still in Dubai, should be in fear they will be next. 'Yes, they should be worried," he said. "They should have been worried now for a number of years because there's huge investigative effort and international investigative effort has gone into the Kinahan organised crime gang.' He said a lot of comments of what 'couldn't be done have been done' and a legal extradition had happened. Mr Harris said because of the cooperation of police in Dubai and legal authorities in the UAE, 'we've seen an individual extradited back to Ireland to face justice here'. Mr Harris reminded other members of the cartel they are in a bind, but there are options for them, in terms of cooperating with gardaí. He said: 'I'd also like to point out too, the other senior lieutenants in the Kinahan organised crime group, who are now facing justice or who are now imprisoned, the sanctions and the rewards still stand — there's $15m there of reward money through the federal law enforcement authorities of the US, so that is still in play. I just want to remind other members of the Kinahan organised crime gang the perilous position they are now in, that ourselves and other law enforcement are fixed on them and are fixed on bringing them, all of them, to justice. 'So, all of them should be worried and thinking about the choices, the serious life choices that are now ahead of them in respect of what to do over the coming months.' Deputy Commissioner, Security, Governance and Strategy, Justin Kelly said a couple of years ago, when he was Assistant Commissioner, Operations and Security, both he and the commissioner had said gardaí would be 'relentless', and the extradition of McGovern was 'absolute evidence' of that. He said the 'exact same' applied to other transnational crime gangs. Referring to the Kinahan cartel, he said at one point there were 47 members of it in jail. Mr Kelly also called on Kinahan lieutenants to have a 'really good think' about what choices they make in the coming months.
