Caolan Smyth yesterday joined the long list of criminals serving lengthy prison terms for serious crimes carried out at the behest of the Kinahan cartel.
UK national fined over Covid-19 beach near Punchestown Racecourse
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A UK national has been fined for breaching a Covid-15 regulation near Punchestown Racecourse.
James Denton, 30, whose address was given as 5 Totnes Avenue, Liverpool, was prosecuted for breaching a Covid-19 regulation and with failing to comply with the direction of a garda after the State alleged he was present near Punchestown Racecourse without good reason on January 18.
Solicitor David Powderly told Naas District Court on February 10 the defendant was using a drone to film and stream live horse races at the venue for people who gamble on in running races.
80 years ago: Nazi warplanes over Newbridge as bombs hit Ballymany
Historian Liam Kenny recalls how a stray German aircraft triggered a diplomatic war when it unloaded bombs near the Curragh racecourse in January 1941
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It was a New Year’s gift as unwelcome as it was unexpected. In the early hours of January 2, 1941, as the people of Newbridge slept under the thin security blanket of Irish neutrality, a stray Nazi plane droned overhead and unleashed a torrent of bombs to the west of the town.
High explosive projectiles plunged earthwards, scouring craters in the ground on the edge of the Curragh racecourse and in the pastures of Ballymany Stud.