Typical of the Irish Judicial System

SHANNONSIDER · February 15, 2012, 10:13pm

How would a fella go about paying out €175k? Would there just be a stay on your house or something. There is no way I’d pay that cunt a cent but how? Liquidate everything, bury it and tell yer man go fuck?

Bishop_Brennan · February 15, 2012, 10:20pm

did the 175K actually come from Mr. McCaughey or was it insurance or something like that?

SHANNONSIDER · February 15, 2012, 10:39pm

I don’t think you can insure against shit like that, Len. Can you?

artfoley · February 16, 2012, 12:15am

A BUSINESSMAN charged with assaulting a man who broke into his house was previously successfully sued for €175,000 by the burglar, a court heard yesterday.

Louth-based property developer Martin McCaughey (48) is accused of using a Mercedes car “as a weapon” to assault Daniel McCormack (27).

Mr McCaughey denies reckless endangerment at Clann Chulainn Park, Farndreg, Dundalk, on June 27, 2008. He also denies assault causing harm on the same date.

McCormack previously received a suspended jail sentence for the burglary, but also successfully sued the businessman.

McCormack told Dundalk Circuit Criminal Court yesterday that he had been very drunk when he left his house in the early hours of the morning and went into the home of Mr McCaughey.

He did not remember everything that happened there. But he could recall going in a side door and into an upstairs bathroom where there was jewellery.

He told the jury he found himself there “with jewellery stuck in my pockets”.

He then heard shouting and ran from the house and garden towards his home at Clann Chulainn Park.

The court heard Mr McCaughey was dressed in just his boxer shorts and he had shouted at McCormack as he ran from the house.

Wheelchair

The court heard that McCormack’s house at Benvista, Mount Avenue, overlooked the Clann Chulainn Park estate, and that Mr McCaughey had been involved in building it.

McCormack was in his estate when he said he was struck by a car. He said he “limped on” and got hit a second time by it. He said the accused told him, “I will kill you if you get up”.

Both his legs were broken and he was in hospital for two -and-a-half weeks. He was in a wheelchair for six to eight weeks and then on crutches.

Cross-examined by Brendan Grehan, defending, McCormack agreed that when he went into the house he “was trespassing” and “looking for things to steal”.

He also agreed he had left his home that morning planning to burgle houses and had done this before.

The court heard McCormack had been charged with burglary at Mr McCaughey’s home and received a three-year sentence, which had been suspended.

He agreed he had sued Mr McCaughey and received €175,000. McCormack said he had given €50,000 of this to the hospital where he had been treated.

When Mr Grehan put it to him that Mr McCaughey had wanted him to wait for the gardai to arrive after the incident in Clann Chulainn Park but he (McCormack) was intent on getting away, he agreed.

“I was more afraid of him than he was of me,” he said.

Mr Grehan asked if Mr McCaughey had tried to “box you in with his car”, and McCormack answered, “yes”.

John English, who lives in Clann Chulainn Park, was making coffee at about 6am when he looked out his kitchen window and saw that a Mercedes car “had hit a chap”.

He said “it was an accident” and the car had reversed and the driver __ Mr McCaughey __ had got out. “The man was distraught, he had his hands on his head, he was panicking,” Mr English told the court.

The trial continues before Judge Gerard Griffin and a jury.

Elaine Keogh

Typical fucking ireland.
This McCormack lad should be locked up

agreed that mccormack should have gotten jail, but disagree with most of the rest.

a judge didnt decide the compo, it was settled before going to court
he’s a gobshite for a) using a car and b) not doing it on his own property therefore knocking out his nally defence
he’s a developer, so he’s probably robbed more than mccormack could ever dream of
he had dundalk council down the in the high court for several days for not zoning land he paid 10 m for in the docks of dundalk as residential,

HBV · February 16, 2012, 9:41am

jesus foley this is just idle gossip that has no relevance to the case
hard to believe sometimes you are training to be a solicitor, based on your comments numbered 2,3 and 4 its more likely you are sidekick to the courts reporter for The Sun

HBV · February 16, 2012, 9:47am

this chap is on newstalk now
DPP made a cunt of this, doesnt foley work for the dpp? would explain his last post
says Assessment Board decided the 175k and was paid by his car insurance
this is the same assessment board set up to avoid having to use a bent solicitor, fucking scandal

he is facing a 6 figure legal bill

Mac · February 16, 2012, 9:58am

Is it any wonder the likes of fooley can afford a nice big house in Dun Laoghaire with this kind of carry on.

Flano · February 16, 2012, 10:26am

Its a flawed law. The cunt was running off with yer mans property, the law should extend to you being able to retrieve your property by any means necessary. Vroom vroom.

artfoley · February 16, 2012, 10:35am

you dont have to agree with the injuries board. you can take your chances in court if you think the award is too big. but then again, his insurance might not have indemnified him if it went to court. also point 4 i made wasnt idle gossip, its a fact.

croppy_boy · February 16, 2012, 10:51am

Didn’t OJ Simpson try something like that in Vegas and ended up in jail?

HBV · February 16, 2012, 10:58am

its an irrelevant fact, ill have to assume you are just throwing out any old rubbish about McCaughey you have heard down the canteen in the DPP office to make yourself sound like you are in the know
no other reason for posting that up here

Flano · February 16, 2012, 11:03am

It’s a bit different when you sell something and then decide you want it back :lol:

croppy_boy · February 16, 2012, 11:15am

He claimed they were all stolen Flano - http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,296758,00.html

No gloves among the items though :strokechin:

artfoley · February 16, 2012, 11:27am

just pointing out that mccaughey is far from sweetness and light. which in the circumstances is relevant. the information is readily available on courts.ie

Flano · February 16, 2012, 11:34am

Police Squad were on that case quick enough.

HBV · February 17, 2012, 10:50am

what attracted you to the legal profession art? was it the sweetness and light?
its not often you see a legal eagle with the brass neck to take the high moral ground, even at a property developers expense but foley just has
developers had their day in the sun, the legal profession en masse goes on raping and pilaging ordinary folk

tazdedub · February 17, 2012, 11:01am

Heard the burglars sister and neighbour been interviewed this morning on Newstalk. They spouted the usual shit about how hard he had it growing up and it was his mothers anniversary when he broke into the mans house and how he is a lovely lad and wouldn’t do anything to harm anyone and loves nothing better than playing football with his nephews and nieces. Real salt of the earth stuff. Fucking sickening listening to them making a victim out of the burglar.

http://www.newstalk.ie/2012/news/sister-of-burglar-disgusted-by-acquittal-of-louth-businessman/

KIB_man · February 17, 2012, 1:32pm

How is that relevant?

Bishop_Brennan · February 17, 2012, 1:49pm

i see in todays paper that the payment came from the insurance company. presume it was the car insurance.

SHANNONSIDER · February 17, 2012, 1:52pm

I thought there was some law where you couldn’t profit in court if you were injured in the course of a crime or what not. Can you clarify art?

Can I put the razor wire back up safe in the knowledge I can’t be sued by a thief cut to shreds trying to gain access to my demesne?