‘I thought my head had been knocked clean off my shoulders,’ said victim Phelim O'Reilly at Ennis Court on Friday. An Independent TD provided a written character reference to court for a man who ...

Giving a character reference in a criminal case is not an error of judgment, a leading barrister has said, in response to controversy surrounding the sentencing of ...

Cusack, who failed to respond to repeated requests from the Irish Examiner last week to comment on the case, said he provided the reference to “help a human in a dark place” who had asked for help.

Sunday Times journalist David Walsh has defended his decision to write a character reference for Tom Humphries, the former Irish Times journalist convicted of grooming a teenage girl to engage in ...