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Ronan tiger kidnapping case to be heard in Dublin

Fri, Feb 10, 2012

The case involving the kidnapping of former Kilkenny hurler Adrian Ronan and his family will now be heard in Dublin and not in Kilkenny as originally expected.

This week a judge ruled that it would be ‘manifestly unjust’ for the case involving Stephen Freeman of 3 Balcurris Gardens, Ballymun, who has been charged with the false imprisonment of former county hurler Adrian Ronan, to be heard in Kilkenny.

On Wednesday afternoon an application was put before Judge Alice Doyle to have the case moved to Dublin Circuit Criminal Court rather than have the case heard at the current sittings of the Kilkenny Circuit Criminal Court, by the barrister for Freeman.

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