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Isabel Hayes

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As seen in: CCC.Nuacht, MSN Ireland, Daily Mail, Irish Daily Mail, MSN UK, The Daily Mirror, The Sun, Daily Star (UK), The Sunday Times, The Times, The Irish Times and
Covers:  Courts, Crime, Legal Affairs, Fertility issues
Journalist. Court Reporter, Criminal Courts of Justice, Dublin. Formerly AAP (Sydney), Sunday Tribune. Recurrent Miscarriage / IVF / Preemie mom of two

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I'm an Irish journalist with 14 years experience,
particularly in the areas of court reporting and legal affairs. I am currently based in the Courts of Criminal Justice in Dublin as a court reporter for news agency CCC.Nuacht. I have also written extensively on my experience of recurrent miscarriage, IVF and premature birth.

I started my career in the Sunday Tribune in Dublin as a general news reporter in 2005. I moved to Sydney, Australia in 2008 where I worked for national news agency AAP f…

Isabel Hayes’s Journalist Portfolio

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Miscarriages and IVF: chasing a rainbow baby (and when to stop)

Miscarriages and IVF: chasing a rainbow baby (and when to stop)

There's a photo on my noticeboard that gives me a pang whenever I see it. It's an ordinary photo of an ordina…

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I was 30 weeks and two days pregnant. And in labour

I was 30 weeks and two days pregnant. And in labour

On the June bank holiday weekend in 2018, I peered out the window of a stuffy ward in the National Maternity …

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Very soon after we heard our baby's heartbeat, it stopped beating for good. And I had no idea - I...

Very soon after we heard our baby's heartbeat, it stopped beating for good. And I had no idea - I...

Last June, my husband and I sat in an ultrasound clinic in Dublin and listened to the most amazing sound in t…

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Desperate violent death of a scared man

Desperate violent death of a scared man

IT is a sound that has echoed repeatedly through Glebe Coroners Court this week - a young man's wails as he i…

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Why did the Jobstown seven go free?

Why did the Jobstown seven go free?

As the two-month-long Jobstown trial finally drew to a close, the defence barrister for Solidarity TD Paul Mu…

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Jobstown trial: Convictions not a shoe in for 'terrified' Joan Burton

Jobstown trial: Convictions not a shoe in for 'terrified' Joan Burton

Nine weeks after the Jobstown protest trial opened in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court it took a jury just three…

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Articles

Victim leaves courtroom in distress after defendant gets fully suspended sentence for defilement

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By Isabel Hayes 
| Courts News Ireland
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Jury returns further guilty verdicts in trial of six accused of sexually abusing deaf relative

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By Isabel Hayes 
| The Irish Times
The jury in the trial of six men accused of sexually abusing their deaf relative has returned five guilty verdicts in relation to three defendants. It brings to seven the number of guilty counts the jury has returned in the course of its deliberations, which reached 11 days on Wednesday and which are still continuing. The jury returned verdicts in relation to three men – one uncle of the main complainant and two of her younger brothers.
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Army sergeant jailed for 11 years for sexual abuse

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By Isabel Hayes , Fiona Ferguson 
| Dublin People
This article contains references to sexual abuse, which some readers may find distressing. Reader discretion is advised. By Isabel Hayes and Fiona Ferguson A former Army sergeant who was convicted of sexually abusing two vulnerable victims in separate offences has been jailed for 11 years. Anthony Lynch (42) was found guilty by a jury following a Dublin Circuit Criminal Court trial last February of one count of sexually assaulting a young man on December 12, 2024.
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Awards

Irish Justice Media Award

2007 - Court Reporting - Print Media

I was the winner in the court reporting - print media category - for my Sunday Tribune article on the Children's Court.

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