{"id":317846,"date":"2026-02-26T07:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T07:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/317846\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T07:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T07:04:11","slug":"michael-kelley-appears-in-court-charged-with-murder-of-mike-gaine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/317846\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Kelley appears in court charged with murder of Mike Gaine"},"content":{"rendered":"

American man Michael Kelley has appeared in court charged with the murder of Kenmare farmer Michael Gaine.<\/p>\n

54-year-old Mr Kelley, who had been residing in Tralee, appeared in Tralee District Court, where he was remanded in custody.<\/p>\n

Mr Kelley faces one charge; that on a date unknown between 20th March 2025 and 21st March 2025, at Carrig, Kenmare, he murdered Michael Gaine, contrary to common law.<\/p>\n

Mr Kelley was brought in to Tralee District Court, sporting an orange jumper, brown pants, and boots.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> Michael Kelley appearing in court charged with the murder of Mike Gaine. Photo: David Corkey\/Radio Kerry<\/p>\n

Members of Mike Gaine\u2019s family, including his widow Janice, were present for the sitting in Tralee District Court.<\/p>\n

Detective Sergeant Mark O\u2019Sullivan from Killarney garda station gave evidence that he arrested Mr Kelley at 2:23pm at Castleisland garda station for the purpose of charging him with the murder of Michael Gaine.<\/p>\n

Sgt O\u2019Sullivan charged Mr Kelley at 3:06pm today, and made no reply when the single charge of murder was put to him.<\/p>\n

Judge David Waters said he could not hear a bail application, and Mr Kelley\u2019s solicitor Pat Mann said he had explained to his client that would be a matter for the High Court.<\/p>\n

The charge of murder can only be dealt with in the Central Criminal Court, and bail applications on murder charges cannot be heard in the District Court.<\/p>\n

Mr Mann handed in a statement of means for Mr Kelley, who was granted legal aid as he earns \u20ac150 per week from supplementary allowance and has no assets or savings.<\/p>\n

Judge Waters remanded him in custody to 4th March, when he will appear again in court in Tralee for the book of evidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American man Michael Kelley has appeared in court charged with the murder of Kenmare farmer Michael Gaine. 54-year-old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-317846","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317846","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=317846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}