Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: » It was Nolan who gave the 6 year sentence for the garlic if I recall.
Are Am Eye wrote: » That's the one where the state/gardai got a Warrant which specifically has a life of one week and executed eight days later. Rendering evidence completely and permanently non usable and non existent. That was just by chance. Clerical error. Bureaucracy. There was nothing else going on there.
Squatter wrote: » No they executed it 7 days later. Problem was that it was served in the afternoon of the seventh day whereas it had been signed on the morning of the first day. The defence successfully persuaded the judge that the long-standing practice whereby a warrant was valid until midnight on the 7th day was illegal. So the judge decreed that it had been served late.
Mutant z wrote: » If there was any justice then that gobshyte Nolan would be struck off and banned from sitting permanently he isn't fit to be a judge anywhere but a lunatic asylum.
Outlaw Pete wrote: » Most of the DVDs were naturist in nature? Didn't realize naturist videos were illegal...... Anyone remember that H&E magazine that they used to have in shops. I remember as a kid looking up at that and wondering how shops could have a magazine with naked people on it but yet Playboy was banned here at the time. Not that there was much to see in it. Remember one of the lads nicked a copy once and it was just full of old people playing tennis. Anyway, I expect that was a large part of the reasoning behind only handing down a suspended sentence plus also of course the fact that he had no previous.
donegaLroad wrote: » That guy is a marked man for the rest of his life, thats probably sentence enough. The judge probably felt that he would not have been safe in prison, plus he has been attending rehab since 2013. Im not trying to defend him or his actions, its just that there are a lot of people walking the streets at the minute who are guilty of a lot more serious crimes simply because the Irish prison system does not have the space or resources to cope with them. For example, a recent enough case where a man got 5 years with the final 2 years suspended for attempted murder with a butchers knife. Victim was in intensive care for a week.
up for anything wrote: » People don't do well denying their sexuality, deviant or otherwise.
Readers may be familiar with the recent decision of Judge Martin Nolan not to impose a custodial sentence on former civil servant Patrick Corcoran, 53, after he was caught with over 7,000 images and 21 videos of child pornography. In October 2012 Judge Nolan allowed 29 year old Graham Griffiths, who committed a violent sex attack on a 17-year-old, to walk free from court, suspending his four year sentence in full on condition he pay his victim 15,000 Euros. Griffiths had told gardaí he felt he was ‘under some magnetic force’ and ‘it must have been the hormones’ that caused him to attack. In December 2012 Judge Nolan fully suspended a three year sentence given to David Sharpe, a father of one, who went to a shop looking for help to transfer child pornography from one phone to another has avoided a jail term. The screensaver on his phone had an image of a child naked from the waist down as the background wallpaper. 44 images were recovered, 18 of which depicted children aged between eight and 14 years old engaged in penetrative sex, nine which showed children engaged in non-penetrative sexual activity and 17 which showed children in sexual poses. Judge Nolan said he was satisfied a prison term was not justified before he sentenced Sharpe to three years which he suspended in full on strict conditions including that he remain under probation supervision for 18 months. He accepted that Sharpe had not distributed, purchased nor shared the images and had therefore not supported the child pornographic industry. In July 2012 Judge Nolan again refused to impose a custodial sentence on a convicted sex offender who viewed animated child porn – graphic depictions of sexual activity with speech bubbles that left no doubt they were of children. Judge Martin Nolan said if the material had involved real children or if O’Neill had paid for it, he would be imposing a “reasonably severe” sentence. He added: “This material, no matter how odious, did not harm or exploit children.”
Most of the images and clips were “naturist”, the court heard, but others showed pre-pubescent boys engaged in sexual behaviour.
Irish Guitarist wrote: » 'Most' of 60,000 could be a massive amount. He could have 5,000 or 10,000 pictures or videos of boys being abused and still say most of them weren't too bad.
https://www.sundayworld.com/news/courts/dublin-man-found-with-gun-silencer-and-ammo-near-ikea-avoids-extra-jail-time Judge Martin Nolan sentenced Hanney to five years imprisonment with the final two years suspended on July 19, 2016. Mr Justice Birmingham, who sat with Mr Justice John Edwards and Mr Justice John Hedigan, said the sentence eventually arrived at “might be said” to be at the absolute outer limits of leniency
https://www.sundayworld.com/news/courts/luas-driver-avoids-jail-for-stabbing-ex-girlfriends-former-partner A Luas driver who stabbed his ex-girlfriend's former partner in the neck with a blade has been spared a jail term. Judge Martin Nolan told Nolan he was "a very lucky man" and it was "fortunate for everybody" that Mr Kelly's injuries had not been more serious.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/driver-with-483-convictions-gets-18-months-for-killing-teenager-1.2952680driver with 483 convictions gets 18 months for killing teenager Judge Martin Nolan said that although drink was a factor, the real factor in the case was Lynch’s speed and how he could not avoid the collision because he was driving at such speed. He sentenced him to 18 months in prison on the careless driving charge
http://www.donegaldemocrat.ie/news/news/234222/two-donegal-men-jailed-for-assaults-on-couple-at-their-home.html Garda Denise Casserly told the court that the couple were watching television with their family at around 1am when they heard loud noises at the front gate. Mr McConnell went to investigate and saw three men at the gate. He tried to speak to them and a heated discussion started. Kelly opened gate and ripped off his t-shirt and hit Mr McConnell in the face, splitting his lip. Porter then punched him from behind on the back of the head. Kelly kicked Mr McConnell in the groin and they both dragged him to the ground. Kelly punched Mr McConnell in the face and Garda Casserly said they then took turns to swig whiskey from a bottle while they kicked Mr McConnell. Judge Nolan said the offences were in the mid to high range considering the injuries and the context of the assaults. He imposed a two and half year custodial sentence on both men and suspended the last 12 months.
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/man-stabbed-family-friend-with-bicycle-stabiliser-on-school-run-court-hears-35314505.html He wanted to confront the victim about comments he allegedly made about his wife and stabbed the victim four times around the head and punched and kicked him. Yesterday Judge Nolan sentenced Ghambari to three years in prison which he suspended in full.
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/suspended-sentence-for-boy-who-fractured-another-teens-skull-with-hammer-over-50-cannabis-deal-34758016.html A south Dublin schoolboy who fractured another teen's skull with a hammer over €50 worth of cannabis has avoided a custodial sentence. The 17-year-old boy from Foxrock, Dublin
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/man-23-receives-suspended-sentence-for-sexually-assaulting-woman-while-she-slept-in-her-own-bed-after-party-34347080.html A man who sexually assaulted a woman following a party as she slept in her bed has been given a two-and-a-half year suspended sentence. Stephen McCarthy (23) initially told gardai when questioned that he “tripped and landed on top of” the victim.
http://www.thejournal.ie/attack-man-tallaght-depressing-2497954-Dec2015/ A JUDGE HAS described as “depressing” an attack on a Zimbabwean man during which he was punched 18 times, kicked 13 times, kneed three times to the side of his head, stamped on seven times and stabbed four times. Two teenagers who were captured on CCTV brutally beating the man before robbing his mobile phone were given five-and-a-half year sentences at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. 18 months of the sentence was suspended for one of the attackers – the other had almost four years of the sentence suspended.
http://www.sundayworld.com/news/crimedesk/hit-and-run-driver-should-be-banned-for-life-says-mum-of-victim The mother of a little girl who suffered horrific injuries in a hit-and-run has said the driver responsible "should have got banned for life". Martin Joyce (19) drove a car through a red light at a pedestrian crossing, flinging Jennifer Casey (7) into the air. He has been jailed for a year and banned from driving for four years.
http://www.newstalk.com/reader/47.301/57425/0/https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/man-threatened-to-kill-childrens-grandparents-with-axe-while-on-school-run-832346.html A father-of-two who was swinging an axe when he threatened to kill his children's grandparents has been given a two and half year suspended sentence.
When the material was eventually examined four years later, gardaí discovered 58,585 child pornography images and 1,046 movies
Irish Guitarist wrote: » I'm confused about the point of the OP by the way. What's all this "outrage etc. etc. etc." about? Are people supposed to treat child porn as a joke or something? And why wouldn't anyone comment on how fucked up it is that a judge considers a tax scam involving garlic to warrant a prison sentence but for images and videos of child abuse not to?
sbsquarepants wrote: » Says it all about this countries official attitude to child abuse - takes 4 years to even take a look after a tip off from Canadian police and then when they find tens of thousands of images - sure no harm done anyway. Would make you fúcking sick.
brevity wrote: » If someone is in possession of child porn images then they should be charged with child abuse or of being an accessory to child abuse.
There needs to be a serious change of attitude towards serious crime and repeat offenders in this country.
Samuel T. Cogley wrote: » They took a look immediately. The lab computers go to has a massive backlog however. I'd say let the dirty bugger sweat but it does look like this might have facilitated him retiring.
Samuel T. Cogley wrote: » I'd say let the dirty bugger sweat but it does look like this might have facilitated him retiring.
wexie wrote: » Where did they put the little clippy thing for the spare ball?
BattleCorp wrote: » While I am not standing up for the man, possessing child porn images isn't the same as abusing a child or being an accessory to child abuse. Yes, it should be a serious crime to possess such images but it isn't the same as abuse. If I downloaded a clip of Mexican cartel members chopping the heads off people with a hatchet (freely available online), should I be charged with murder or being an accessory to murder? I think not. .
Church on Tuesday wrote: » Let's face it, it's not like you can cure these kind of abnormalities of the human race. A good long sentence of hard labour, with no parole would be preferable.
