Jonathan Hennessy (42) appeared before a special sitting of Cork District Court charged with the murder of Oleksandr Zhyvytskyi (31) just hours before St Patrick’s Day.<\/p>\n
Hennessy of Dr Patrick O\u2019Sullivan Terrace, Upper Aghada, Co Cork is charged with the murder of Mr Zhyvytskyi contrary to Common Law.<\/p>\n
The charge alleged that, on March 16, 2026, at Knapp\u2019s Square, Cork he did murder Oleksandr Zhyvytskyi.<\/p>\n
Detective Garda Kevin Motherway of Watercourse Road Garda Station offered evidence of arrest, charge and caution.<\/p>\n
He said that Hennessy made no reply when the charge was put to him under caution.<\/p>\n
The charge was brought at 4.25pm on Thursday at Mayfield Garda Station in Cork.<\/p>\n
Sgt John Dineen said that it was alleged that Mr Zhyvytskyi suffered a stab wound to the chest during an altercation in Knapp\u2019s Square in Cork city at 7.50pm on March 16.<\/p>\n
He said that victim managed to make his way to his nearby home where he was later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n
Mr Zhyvytskyi was formally pronounced dead by a local doctor at 8.35pm on Monday evening.<\/p>\n
As the charge involved is murder, bail cannot be dealt with by the district court. Any bail application has to be brought before the High Court.<\/p>\n
Judge Mary Dorgan granted free legal aid after she was informed that the accused is in receipt of disability allowance.<\/p>\n
Defence solicitor Eddie Burke asked that his client receive medical attention in Cork Prison.<\/p>\n
Hennessy – who appeared in court wearing a black top and white pants – did not speak during the brief hearing.<\/p>\n
He was remanded in custody to appear again by video link before Cork District Court on March 25.<\/p>\n
Judge Dorgan directed that he receive appropriate medical assessment and assistance while on remand in custody.<\/p>\n
Mr Zhyvytskyi moved to Ireland from his native Ukraine when he was a young man.<\/p>\n
The married father lived in Camden Court apartments in Carroll\u2019s Quay in Cork city with his wife and infant child.<\/p>\n
It is understood that he went out to buy food that evening and then came back home injured.<\/p>\n
Mr Zhyvytskyi collapsed in front of his wife and she raised the alarm.<\/p>\n
The emergency services raced to the scene but despite desperate attempts to save him, he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jonathan Hennessy (42) appeared before a special sitting of Cork District Court charged with the murder of Oleksandr…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,898,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-355028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355028","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=355028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}