{"id":157253,"date":"2025-11-24T16:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T16:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/157253\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T16:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T16:02:09","slug":"man-jailed-for-life-for-brutal-stab-murder-of-only-brother-after-family-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/157253\/","title":{"rendered":"Man jailed for life for \u2018brutal\u2019 stab murder of only brother after family funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fergus O'Connor (left) and the late Paudie O'Connor (right)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/6585954b-d17c-477f-8d93-bd2c3eae0389.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Fergus O&#8217;Connor (left) and the late Paudie O&#8217;Connor (right)<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A 43-year-old man has been sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering his only brother &#8220;in the most brutal and frightening of circumstances&#8221; following a family funeral in Co Kerry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Last month, a jury convicted Fergus O&#8217;Connor of murder, rejecting his claim of self-defence. Today&#8217;s sentence hearing at the Central Criminal Court was told that O&#8217;Connor had a large number of grievances against his 42-year-old brother Paudie, which ranged from money and land-related matters to &#8220;issues of other women&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fergus O&#8217;Connor (left) and the late Paudie O&#8217;Connor (right) A 43-year-old man has been sentenced to life imprisonment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-157253","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157253","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=157253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}