(Pictured: Mr Robert Cusack (left) and Mr Alan McNamara (right). Credit: Collins)

The wife of a man accused of shooting dead a member of a rival biker club has told her husband’s murder trial that she has lived in fear for the last two years.

May McNamara was giving evidence at the Central Criminal Court where her husband, Alan McNamara (51), from Mountfune, Murroe, Co LImerick has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Andrew O’Donoghue on June 20, 2015 at Mountfune.

Also on trial is Ms McNamara’s son Robert Cusack (28), of Abington, Murroe, who has pleaded not guilty to impeding Mr ….read more

(Pictured: Witness Mr Seamus Duggan, who gave evidence today. Credit: Collins)

Gardai found two shotguns, pepper spray, iron bars, axe handles, knuckle dusters and knives when they searched a bikers’ clubhouse and cars where a man was shot dead.

The weapons were found by gardai investigating the death of Andrew O’Donoghue (51) who died after being shot at Murroe, Co Limerick on June 20, 2015. Alan McNamara (51), of Mountfune, Murroe, Co Limerick has pleaded not guilty to his murder.

Mr McNamara’s stepson Robert Cusack (28), of Abington, Murroe, has pleaded not guilty to impeding Mr McNamara’s apprehension knowing or believing him ….read more

A biker shot a member of a rival motorcycle club dead over a territorial dispute in Limerick, a prosecuting barrister told a murder trial jury today.

Alan McNamara (50), of Mountfune, Murroe, Co Limerick has pleaded not guilty to murdering Andrew O’Donoghue (51) in Murroe, Co Limerick on June 20, 2015.

His stepson, Robert Cusack (28), is charged with impeding Mr McNamara’s apprehension knowing or believing him to have committed a serious offence. Mr Cusack has also pleaded not guilty and both men are being tried together at the Central Criminal Court.

Opening the trial, Michael Delaney SC for the prosecution told ….read more

(Pictured: Victim’s son, David Sweeney, speaking to reporters outside court today. Credit: Collins)

A man who admitted “brutally” beating a 62-year-old former rugby captain to death has been jailed for five years.

Gary Walsh (35), with an address at The Watercourse, Orwell Park in Templeogue, had been charged with murdering Cathal Sweeney at a mutual friend’s flat in Ashdale Gardens, Terenure in Dublin.

Following two trials in which juries could not agree a verdict, the State accepted his plea of guilty to manslaughter.

Passing sentence today, Mr Justice Patrick McCarthy said the appropriate penalty for the crime would be ten years, but taking ….read more

A 34-year-old Dublin man has been convicted of being the murderer in drag who gunned a man down with a sub-machine gun in a busy car park.

Christopher McDonald, from the East Wall area of Dublin, was found guilty of murder by unanimous jury verdict following a little over two hours of deliberation at the Central Criminal Court.

He had pleaded not guilty to the murder of Keith Walker (36) at the Blanchardstown Pigeon Racing Club car park on Shelerin Road, Clonsilla, Dublin on June 12, 2015.

The verdict was met with shouts and a number of people burst into tears. One man ….read more

A jury will return to court on Monday to consider its verdict in the trial of a man accused of being the gunman dressed in women’s clothes who murdered a pigeon enthusiast with a sub-machine gun.

Having spent a little over one hour deliberating on Friday, the six men and six men were sent home for the weekend.

Christopher McDonald (34), from the East Wall area of Dublin has pleaded not guilty to the murder of 36-year-old Keith Walker at Blanchardstown Pigeon Racing Club on the Shelerin Road, Clonsilla on June 12, 2015. He is on trial at the Central Criminal Court.

In ….read more

Gardai in a murder investigation acted with “great laxity” in how they dealt with evidence, a defence barrister has told a trial jury.

Bernard Condon SC today gave his closing speech to the jury in the trial of Christopher McDonald (34), from the East Wall area of Dublin. Mr McDonald has pleaded not guilty to the murder of 36-year-old Keith Walker at Blanchardstown Pigeon Racing Club on the Shelerin Road, Clonsilla on June 12, 2015.

The trial has heard that Mr Walker was shot 18 times by a gunman dressed in women’s clothes.

Mr Condon told the six men and six women of ….read more

The jury in the trial of a man accused of a machine gun murder while dressed as a woman is expected to hear closing speeches from both sides tomorrow morning.

Christopher McDonald (34), from the East Wall area of Dublin, has pleaded not guilty to the murder of 36-year-old Keith Walker in the car park of the Blanchardstown Pigeon Racing Club on Shelerin Road, Clonsilla on June 12, 2015.

A small amount of evidence was heard in the Central Criminal Court trial today, before Mr Justice Patrick McCarthy asked the jury to return to hear closing speeches this morning.

The jury heard from ….read more

DNA matching a murder accused was identified on a glove and wig found alongside the sub-machine gun alleged to have been used in the attack, a trial heard today.

Dr Edward Connolly of Forensic Science Ireland told the trial of Christopher McDonald that he tested a number of items found in a laneway four days after Keith Walker was shot 18 times in the car park of the Blanchardstown Pigeon Racing Club on Shelerin Road in Clonsilla on June 12, 2015.

Mr McDonald (34), from the East Wall area of Dublin, has pleaded not guilty to Mr Walker’s murder. He is on ….read more

A jury has seen CCTV footage of the moment a man was shot 18 times with a sub-machine gun in the car park of a pigeon racing club.

The jury in the trial of Christopher McDonald viewed footage that gardai say shows 36-year-old Keith Walker suffering the gunshot wounds that killed him.

Mr McDonald (34), from the East Wall area of Dublin, has pleaded not guilty to Mr Walker’s murder on June 12, 2015 in the car park of the Blanchardstown Pigeon Racing Club on Shelerin Road, Clonsilla.

The trial has previously heard from State Pathologist Professor Marie Cassidy that the deceased ….read more