No strong opinions but a quick google throws up the following:
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From breakingnews.ie
03/07/2008 - 16:44:17
A case of mistaken identity which sparked a “riot” in a Tallaght housing estate has lead to prison terms and suspended sentences being imposed on a group of young men.
A house in the Castle Park estate was the focus of a “terrifying” attack by up to 30 people with a variety of weapons including a wheel brace, a kitchen knife, a table leg, a screwdriver and baton.
Brothers Brian (aged 34), Colm (aged 31) and Niall Byrne (aged 19), all of Castle Park, Tallaght; Stuart Douglas (aged 21), of St Aongus Lawns, Tallaght; Craig Lacken (aged 23), of Hillview Estate, Dundrum; and Steven Byrne (aged 22), of Castletymon Court, Tallaght pleaded guilty to violent disorder at Castle Park on February 4, 2006.
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From herald.ie
By Andrew Phelan
Monday April 27 2009
A DANGEROUS driver who forced a garda patrol car to crash into him when he screeched to a halt during a high-speed chase has been jailed for five months.
Father-of-two Bryan Kelly (34) said he was acting as a "good Samaritan" by speeding to hospital with clothes for his girlfriend's sister when he was pursued by gardai.
Sentencing him and banning him from driving for 10 years, Judge James McDonnell said he "had to protect the public".
Kelly, of Hillview Estate, Ballinteer, admitted charges of dangerous, careless and uninsured driving. He was already under a 10-year ban at the time of the incident in Rathfarnham on November 20, 2007. Tallaght District Court heard gardai were in an unmarked patrol car at a junction when the defendant drove up at speed in his Opel Vectra and crashed the red light. The gardai activated their siren and followed him as he drove up Rathfarnham Road at speed.
He failed to stop at the Butterfield Avenue junction and drove up Nutgrove Avenue until he reached the junction with Nutgrove Way, where three women were stopped in a car at the junction there. The driver held her ground when she heard the siren, and the defendant swerved, clipping her car.
As he pulled out into the middle of the junction, followed by the gardai, he slammed on the brakes without warning. The patrol car, driven by garda David Conroy, had to swerve and hit the rear of the defendant's car.
Nobody was injured. The court heard Kelly had 44 previous convictions for offences including drunk driving, dangerous driving, hit and run and failing to stop for a garda.
Solicitor John O'Leary said the accused had been at his girlfriend's house when her sister asked for a bag of clothes to be taken to her in hospital.
"He said he would bring the bag of clothing over," Mr O'Leary said. "He stupidly did the good Samaritan."
Judge McDonnell said the accused was lucky he was not facing more serious charges, such as reckless endangerment.
"The sudden braking in front of a patrol car is suggestive of one intention only," the judge said.
Giving evidence on the accused's behalf, his father John Kelly said his son had made several attempts to get off drugs. The accused had been affected by the death of his older brother in a car crash.
"Jail won't do him any good," Mr Kelly added.
Judge McDonnell said, notwithstanding what had been said on the accused's behalf, "the public must be protected".
He sentenced him to five months for dangerous driving, five months for uninsured driving and three months for careless driving. He was fined €350 for having no licence.
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By Cormac Looney
Thursday March 05 2009
A WANTED aL-Qa'ida terror suspect is using a second address in Ireland -- staying at a south Dublin council house.
Members of the garda's Special Branch traced Ibrahim Buwisir (47) to a property in the Hillview estate in Ballinteer, south Dublin, which he is suspected of using as a second Irish base.
There were growing questions today about his maintenance of Irish citizenship after he was flagged on a UN terror list.
Despite his extremism the Libyan national was granted Irish citizenship by the Dept of Foreign Affairs and was even given membership of the National Union of Journalists here.
Members of the security services here believe he should be stripped of Irish citizenship for raising funds for terror organisations.
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independent.ie
By Michael Doyle
Friday February 08 2002
A TEENAGER who caused an estimated £1m damage to a school by starting a fire has been jailed for 6 years by Judge Elizabeth Dunne at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.
Brendan Payne's arson attack on Ballinteer community school caused so much structural damage that it took more than €63,0000 to knock the affected wing down and make it safe. It hasn't been rebuilt because a new second-level school is planned for the area.
The school was closed for three days because 18 classrooms suffered smoke damage and there was a fear for the safety of the pupils.
Irreplaceable computer software as well as much equipment was also lost in the inferno.
Payne (19), of Hillview Estate, Ballinteer, pleaded guilty to arson on November 14, 2000. He has three previous convictions.
Garda James Mulligan agreed with defence counsel Raymond Farrell that Payne was a pupil of the school up to a year or two before the incident but there was no indication this was any kind of revenge attack.
He added that the incident had an adverse affect on the image of the school and it was still trying to recover.
Judge Dunne said the only conclusion she could draw from this case was that it was "a pointless, meaningless and mindless act that caused enormous damage, not only to those connected with the school, but to the local community.
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herald.ie
By Eimear Cotter
Wednesday June 17 2009
A youth has been accused of threatening a boy with a knife after the child told people that he had seen him damage a car a few days previously.
David Kennedy (19) is alleged to have caused €460 damage to a car in a southside estate as he made his way home from his granny's funeral.
The defendant, with an address at Hillview Grove, Ballinteer, is then accused of producing a knife a few days later and making threats against a 12-year-old boy, as the boy had seen him damage the car and had told the owners.