Judge Martin Nolan

[Matlock]

If he does turn out to have some shady activity, then I wouldn't be entirely surprised like.

It would seem exceptionally silly, if one was a paedophile, to go out of your way to draw attention to yourself by giving lax sentences to people convicted of sexual offences.

I don't really understand the thinking behind it, tbh.

 

[SoundMan]

It would seem exceptionally silly, if one was a paedophile, to go out of your way to draw attention to yourself by giving lax sentences to people convicted of sexual offences.

I don't really understand the thinking behind it, tbh.

Are you now accepting that he has a record of giving "lax sentences to people convicted of sexual offences", or suggesting that he is not a paedophile?

 

[Matlock]

Are you now accepting that he has a record of giving "lax sentences to people convicted of sexual offences", or suggesting that he is not a paedophile?

I am working with the proposition put forward by another poster.

I have already set out my position in relation to his sentencing. Twice. If you can't read it, I can't assist you any further in that regard.

 

[SoundMan]

I am working with the proposition put forward by another poster.

I have already set out my position in relation to his sentencing. Twice. If you can't read it, I can't assist you any further in that regard.

Oh I read it alright. It was of the Judge Nolan's "sentences on sexually based offences seem lighter than the average, but...." variety.

I'd say nonces up and down the country if they get caught would be hoping to be up before Nolan so they might walk out the door of the court with just a suspended sentence.

 

[Matlock]

Oh I read it alright. It was of the Judge Nolan's "sentences on sexually based offences seem lighter than the average, but...." variety.

I'd say nonces up and down the country if they get caught would be hoping to be up before Nolan so they might walk out the door of the court with just a suspended sentence.

So you read it, you just didn't understand it. Thats fine.

Have you given up on your plan for a search warrant against him?

 

[SoundMan]

So you read it, you just didn't understand it. Thats fine.

Have you given up on your plan for a search warrant against him?

I still think he's for the watching. And I think many of us who aren't in the incestuous ivory towers of Irish legalistas find much of the suspended sentences habitually handed down to proven nonces by Nolan to be very disturbing.

Maybe Judge Nolan might volunteer to have his hard-drives checked if, as you seem to insinuate, he's got nothing to hide. Maybe not.

 

[Matlock]

I still think he's for the watching. And I think many of us who aren't in the incestuous ivory towers of Irish legalistas find much of the suspended sentences habitually handed down to proven nonces by Nolan to be very disturbing.

Maybe Judge Nolan might volunteer to have his hard-drives checked if, as you seem to insinuate, he's got nothing to hide. Maybe not.

So you acknowledge that your idea that somehow a search warrant should be issued against him was massively idiotic.

 

[SoundMan]

So you acknowledge that your idea that somehow a search warrant should be issued against him was massively idiotic.

That a search warrant SHOULD be issued against him given his lengthy record of only having suspended sentences for proven nonces with hundreds of sick photographs isn't idiotic at all.
That one of his fellow judges WOULD sign off properly on a search warrant against him seems massively unlikely though. Not quite the same thing.

 

[Matlock]

That a search warrant SHOULD be issued against him given his lengthy record of only having suspended sentences for proven nonces with hundreds of sick photographs isn't idiotic at all.
That one of his fellow judges WOULD sign off properly on a search warrant against him seems massively unlikely though. Not quite the same thing.

Yes it is.

It is entirely idiotic and firm evidence that you haven't the slightest notion what the grounds of a search warrant are. But if you want to continue to parade your stupidity for all to see, then please don't let me stop you.

By the way, do you have any evidence that his sentencing is way out of kilter with sentences from other Judges for similar offences? Not opinions, or anecdotes, but actual evidence?

 

[Stacky]

He will be back out on the streets in about 3 months.



An 18-year-old man has been jailed after he pushed an older man off his mobility scooter "for fun", fracturing the man's hand and snapping his dentures in two.

The man, aged in his 60s, had been standing outside a Centra shop in Dublin city centre smoking a cigarette when Elliot Toale, who was a youth at the time but is now aged 18, took his mobility scooter away from him and rolled around on it for a short time.

Toale, who was with three other youths, then gave the man back his scooter but pushed him hard from behind, causing the man to fall heavily on his face and hand.

When a Scottish tourist intervened to help the injured man, Toale stole a large kitchen knife from Centra and ran down the street shouting at the tourist and brandishing the knife at head height.

Toale, with an address at St Michan's House, Greek Street, Dublin 7, pleaded guilty to assaulting a man in his sixties and causing him harm on Capel Street on 11 February last year.

He also admitted stealing a kitchen knife from Centra and production of the knife on the same occasion.

23 previous convictions

At a sitting of Dublin Circuit Criminal Court today, Judge Martin Nolan said Toale had run out of chances and warned that his prison terms would get longer and longer if he did not reform in custody.

Judge Nolan sentenced Toale to two years in prison but suspended the final 16 months by reason of his young age.

"This injured party was minding his own business when other parties decided to have fun at his expense," said the judge, adding that the victim had sustained reasonably serious injuries in a very upsetting incident.

Toale has 23 previous convictions, mostly from the Children's Court, including several for selling drugs and others for threatening and abusive behaviour.

He was on bail at the time of these offences