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Postman Barry Daly<\/p>\nA young man on trial for murdering postman Barry Daly on the night of big hurling celebrations in Doneraile said \u201chis woman\u201d had been punched in the mouth and that he had to sort it out.<\/p>\n
That is what one witness told Ms Justice Siobh\u00e1n Lankford and the jury of seven women and five men at the Central Criminal Court sitting in Cork today.<\/p>\n
Fionn O\u2019Kelly said his sister had been punched by the deceased Barry Daly that night outside Eily\u2019s pub after closing time and that 20-year-old Alex Deady of Glenview, Convent Road, Doneraile, was \u201creally mad\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Witness Fionn O\u2019Kelly said: \u201cI remember Alex coming back down with his top off. Alex was saying he had sorted Barry or something along those lines\u2026 he had sorted Barry or dealt with Barry.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Alex Deady and two juveniles, aged 16 and 17, who cannot be named for legal reasons, are on trial charged with murdering 44-year-old postman Barry Daly at Rockview Terrace in Doneraile on October 12 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Alex Deady, 20, and the 17-year-old pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to manslaughter.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 16-year-old simply pleaded not guilty to murder. The ages relate to the date of the incident.<\/p>\n
Fionn O\u2019Kelly and three other witnesses gave evidence by video link from San Diego in the USA today where they are on J1 holiday work visas.<\/p>\n
Fionn said: \u201cThere was maybe 60 people in Eily\u2019s Bar that night. It felt like everybody was on cloud nine after the championship final\u2026 Everyone was drinking a lot, I was pretty drunk I\u2019d say.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I remember an argument breaking out (outside the pub). There was a lot of roaring and shouting. I remember my sister getting punched by Barry Daly. I walked towards him and I got headbutted (by a teenager).<\/p>\n
\u201cI walked down with my sister, she was crying. I saw Barry across the street. I was pretty furious at this stage. I was walking across to the opposite side of the street. I was stopped (by two men) trying to calm me. I didn\u2019t realise it, but Barry Daly had left by then.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Postman Barry Daly<\/p>\n
Fionn said that before Barry Daly walked away, \u201che (the deceased) was shouting over at me, \u2018It was an accident, it was an accident\u2019, (in relation to punching Rachel). On the night I did not think it was, but I could be wrong, I was pretty drunk. No one would like to see their sister getting punched in the face.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
He said he did not have any physical contact with Barry Daly. Later in the night, he heard that Barry Daly was badly injured, perhaps dead. He saw Alex again and Alex said: \u201cI sorted him\u201d or \u201cI dealt with him\u201d.<\/p>\n
Conor O\u2019Mahony also testified from San Diego today that, \u201cBarry had a closed fist and swung and hit Rachel O\u2019Kelly in the chin, in the jaw\u2026 Barry said it was an accident.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Cross-examined by Alex Deady\u2019s senior counsel Tom Creed, he asked who Barry Daly was swinging his fist at, if it was only accidental that he hit Rachel, and Mr O\u2019Mahony said: \u201cI would have assumed one of the people he was shouting with.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Conor said that he (Conor) grabbed Barry and pushed him against one of the shops and that Barry said, \u201cI didn\u2019t mean it\u201d, and he said someone separated the two of them.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Conor said he wanted to keep Fionn away from Barry and that he did not want anybody to be fighting.<\/p>\n
Daniel O\u2019Connell said that the cup from the hurling final win went back to Eily\u2019s pub and was filled a couple of times with drink.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He said he challenged Barry Daly about hitting Rachel and he said there was pushing and shoving between them.<\/p>\n
\u201c(Later) two lads ran up the road. They had golfclubs in their hands, screaming. I think they had their tops off. I think they were hitting the golfclubs off the ground, that kind of crack. They were making their way up towards the top of the town\u2026 One fella had one (golfclub), I think another fella had two, I am not sure, I was across the other side of the road.<\/p>\n
\u201c(Afterwards in Fionn\u2019s house) we heard something happened with the lads who had run up the road with the golfclubs. When you have been out drinking all day, stuff doesn\u2019t seem so serious, do you get me, but it did seem serious enough,\u201d Daniel said.<\/p>\n
Jack O\u2019Shea testified that everyone was in good spirits in the town that night and he recalled: \u201cI saw Alex Deady coming down the middle of the road with a stick, I thought.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Christopher Smith, who lives in Doneraile, said he kept old golfclubs by his front door and he said these were used for finding bowls when they get caught up in ditches during road bowling.<\/p>\n
The trial continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young man on trial for murdering postman Barry Daly on the night of big hurling celebrations in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[79,54,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-491159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cork-news","tag-courts","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491159","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=491159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}