{"id":14828,"date":"2025-09-11T17:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T17:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/14828\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T17:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T17:38:09","slug":"clinton-mccormack-inquest-into-death-of-man-gunned-down-on-wicklow-building-site-is-adjourned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/14828\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinton McCormack: Inquest into death of\u00a0man gunned down on Wicklow building site is adjourned"},"content":{"rendered":"

Garda\u00ed believe the shooting was ordered by a Bray-based crime gang which is considered the main supplier of drugs in the north Wicklow area\n<\/p>\n

Clinton McCormack (44), a married father of three and construction worker from Bray, Co Wicklow died at St Vincent\u2019s University Hospital in Dublin on December 19, 2023.<\/p>\n

Five days earlier, Mr McCormack and his teenage son were attacked by two masked gunmen while working on a property at Bellevue Hill, Delgany, Co Wicklow during which the deceased sustained gunshot wounds to his arms and legs.<\/p>\n

Detective Inspector Seamus Ryan told a sitting of Dublin District Coroners Court on Thursday that a garda file on the investigation into the circumstances of Mr McCormack\u2019s death is with the DPP.<\/p>\n

Det Insp Ryan applied for an adjournment of the inquest under Section 25 (1) of the Coroners Act on the basis that \u201cmatters are being considered\u201d by the DPP.<\/p>\n

\"Clinton<\/p>\n

Clinton McCormack\u2019s coffin at St Michael\u2019s church in Gorey Co Wexford<\/p>\n

The coroner, Cr\u00f3na Gallagher, granted the application and listed the case for further mention on March 12, 2026.<\/p>\n

At the formal opening of the inquest in August 2024, Dr Gallagher observed that establishing the cause of Mr McCormack\u2019s death was \u201cextremely complex\u201d.<\/p>\n

The coroner revealed that the results of a post mortem showed that he had suffered a lack of oxygen to the brain as well as acute swelling of the brain.<\/p>\n

She also confirmed that he had suffered a cardiac arrest due to multiple gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n

It is understood that Mr McCormack was unaware that he had a brain tumour whose existence was also confirmed by the post mortem.<\/p>\n

The deceased, who came originally from Gorey, Co Wexford, had been living near Oulart, Co Wexford in the period before his death.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The late Clinton McCormack.<\/p>\n

Garda\u00ed believe the shooting was ordered by a Bray-based crime gang which is considered the main supplier of drugs in the north Wicklow area.<\/p>\n

One male was subsequently arrested in relation to a 2007-reg black Ford Focus that was seen near the scene of the shooting.<\/p>\n

Garda\u00ed also carried out searches on six properties in parts of Dublin and Wicklow as part of their investigation into the incident.<\/p>\n

A convicted rapist, Eoghan O\u2019Connell (36) is currently serving a 12-year sentence for a previous attempted murder on Mr McCormack in front of his family over nine years ago.<\/p>\n

\"Clinton<\/p>\n

Clinton Mc Cormack<\/p>\n

News in 90 Seconds, Thursday, September 11 <\/p>\n

The incident occurred as Mr McCormack was leaving his then home in Old Court Park, Bray, Co Wicklow to go to work shortly after 7am on April 18, 2016.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Connell pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of Mr McCormack before a sitting of the Central Criminal Court in March 2018.<\/p>\n

The court heard that the victim, who moved home following the attack, escaped injury because the shotgun used by O\u2019Connell misfired due to shotgun cartridges being damp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed believe the shooting was ordered by a Bray-based crime gang which is considered the main supplier of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6354,6358,42,6357,43,6355,40,38,41,39,6356],"class_list":["post-14828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-namelatest-news-ticker","tag-brandsindependent-ie","tag-headlines","tag-ishiddentrue","tag-news","tag-sluglatest-news-ticker","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-uuidec10736b-5a64-4120-bbf6-88154ac15f82"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}