Patrick MacEntee was one of the highest-profile criminal lawyers in Ireland, acting in a series of major Troubles cases in ...

O'Connell tracked down and interviewed Malcolm Macarthur, who killed two strangers in Dublin in 1982. To write about him, he realised, was both to exalt and to exploit him. "Whether I liked it or ...

One of Ireland's most successful criminal defence lawyers in the State, his past clients included Malcolm MacArthur, Catherine Nevin and those accused of the Sallins train robbery. He also led the ...

In 1983, he acted for Malcolm Macarthur, whose senseless killing of nurse Bridie Gargan and farmer Donal Dunne transfixed the nation. In 2000, he acted for Catherine Nevin who was convicted of the ...