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Gahan entered on his novitiate in the Augustinian Order, on 12 September 1748 and made his solemn profession on 18 September 1749. Shortly afterwards he was sent to the Catholic University of Leuven, where he commenced his ecclesiastical studies, on 1 June 1750. He was ordained priest on 25 May 1755, but remained some years longer in the ...
Jan 31, 2008 · Gahan, a former Grandville businessman who moved his son to Florida for elite training as a skater five years ago, was sentenced to federal prison in Florida in early January.
Gahan was summoned as a witness before Lord Kilwarden (qv) at the Trim assizes (August 1802), but refused to reveal the content of Dunboyne's deathbed confession. Accordingly, the aged friar spent one week in prison for contempt of court. Gahan died 6 December 1804 and was buried in St James church, Dublin.
This imprisonment, however, lasted only a couple of days, and the remainder of Dr. Gahan’s useful life was passed in peace in his convent in Dublin, where he died holding the office of prior. As there were no Catholic cemeteries at the time, his remains were laid to rest in the graveyard attached to St. James’s Protestant Church .
Aug 29, 2018 · Ralph Entwistle, Tom Dunne, Patrick Gleeson, Michael Kearney, William Gahan and John Shepherd are charged with the murder of John Greenwood. Dominic Daley, Jim Driver, John Kenny, and Robert Webster are charged with stealing from the house of John Brown of Dunns Plains.
He refused, of course, to do so, and after undergoing six painful examinations in the Chancery office in Dublin, he was committed to jail at the Trim assizes, 24 Aug., 1802, to which the case had been referred for final judgment, his persistent refusal to testify as to the religion in which Dunboyne had died being ruled by the presiding judge ...
In 1802 he presided over the case against Major Sirr in which the habitual abuses of power used to suppress rebellion were exposed in court. Father Gahan. In the same year he ordered that the well-known Catholic priest Father William Gahan be imprisoned for contempt of court.
