{"id":400343,"date":"2026-04-15T20:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T20:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/400343\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T20:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T20:24:11","slug":"solicitor-for-kenmare-murder-accused-making-enquiries-after-client-appears-in-court-with-black-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/400343\/","title":{"rendered":"Solicitor for Kenmare murder-accused making enquiries after client appears in court with black eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The solicitor for Kenmare murder-accused Michael Kelley says he\u2019s making enquiries after his client appeared in court with two black eyes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/man-accused-of-michael-gaine-murder-appears-before-tralee-court-with-two-black-eyes-479833\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this morning<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>54-year-old American man Michael Kelley is accused of murdering Kenmare man Mike Gaine in March 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Kelley faces one charge; that he murdered Mike Gaine on a date between 20th and 21st March 2025 at Carrig, Kenmare.<\/p>\n<p>He appeared in Tralee District Court this morning via video link from Cork Prison, for the state to give an update on the case.<\/p>\n<p>When Mr Kelley appeared on video link, he had two black eyes.<\/p>\n<p>His solicitor Pat Mann confirmed to Radio Kerry an incident occurred in the prison, the details of which are not yet clear.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Mann said he is making enquiries into the incident to ascertain the details of what happened.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kelley was remanded in continuing custody to 6th May, as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizensinformation.ie\/en\/justice\/criminal-law\/criminal-trial\/disclosure-in-criminal-cases\/#09774d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">book of evidence<\/a> against him is not yet ready to be served on him.<\/p>\n<p>The Irish Prison Service told Radio Kerry it does not comment on individual prisoner cases. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The solicitor for Kenmare murder-accused Michael Kelley says he\u2019s making enquiries after his client appeared in court with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[176693,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-400343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-black-eyes","tag-headlines","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\/400343","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=400343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}