Evidence from the partner of 44-year-old postman Barry Daly that as she lay in bed she heard a shout – \u201cI\u2019m going to kill you\u201d \u2013 was disputed by the 17-year-old accused of murder who told garda\u00ed: \u201cThat was not said.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Memos of interviews given by the 17-year-old across more than eleven-and-a-half hours of questioning by detective garda\u00ed were read by prosecution barrister Imelda Kelly to Ms Justice Siobh\u00e1n Lankford and the jury of seven women and five men at the Central Criminal Court sitting in Cork.<\/p>\n
Evidence from the late Mr Daly\u2019s partner Katie O\u2019Reilly was put to the 17-year-old. She was in bed when she heard those words from outside the house.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed said: \u201cThis is a woman who heard her partner being killed and she heard those words.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The teenager said, \u201cThose words were not said.\u201d Again it was put to him that her partner was being killed outside, and the teenager said” \u201cThose words were not said. That was not said. It was not said.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Also put to him was Ms O’Reilly testimony: \u201cThe bang I heard was like someone getting a whack of something.\u201d The 17-year-old said: \u201cI heard no bang when I was there.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Evidence from John Glassett who overheard shouts when he was in the area after the time of the disputed incident in the front garden of the late Barry Daly\u2019s home, was also put to the accused.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mr Glassett testified that he heard three shouts: \u201cI told him I will f***ing kill him\u201d; \u201che is sleeping in his front garden\u201d; and \u201ctwo blows.\u201d The 17-year-old defendant said none of those three things was said.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed asked him if going to the home of Barry Daly went \u201caccording to plan\u201d?\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 17-year-old replied: \u201cWe were going up, expecting a fight, to be honest. No intention to kill\u2026 There was no plan, there was nothing, there was nothing planned, there was no plan. I didn\u2019t hit him, didn\u2019t do nothing, I didn\u2019t hit him\u2026 I didn\u2019t hit him or nothing along the lines of it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Alex Deady (20) of Glenview, Convent Road, Doneraile, County Cork, and two juveniles, aged 16 and 17, who cannot be named for legal reasons, appeared before the Central Criminal Court for their trial on the charge of murdering Barry Daly at Rockview Terrace in Doneraile on October 12, 2025. Alex Deady and the 17-year-old pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to manslaughter. The 16-year-old simply pleaded not guilty to murder. The ages relate to the date of the incident.<\/p>\n
Alice Fawsitt, senior counsel for the 17-year-old who is on trial, cross-examined Detective Garda Noelle McSweeney about what the 17-year-old said when interviewed by garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n
Ms Fawsitt said that he told garda\u00ed he got golf clubs at home and brought them in to Doneraile and gave one to Alex Deady. Ms Fawsitt said there was evidence that there were various places where the clubs were beaten off walls and beaten off the ground.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe only person who is struck is the unfortunate Barry Daly. That is the prosecution evidence.<\/p>\n
\u201cNotwithstanding that (17-year-old) had a golfclub in his hand he used his head to head-butt Mr Seamus Hunter. He struck him \u2013 violently probably \u2013 with his head into the head,\u201d Mr Fawsitt said.<\/p>\n
Ms Fawsitt said that in effect his evidence could essentially be summarised as follows: \u201cI went and got golfclubs. I went with (Alex) to the house. Barry Daly came out from behind a pillar, he swung at me, I ducked, Alex hit him. That is the account he gave in eleven-and-a-half hours.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ms Fawsitt told the jury that the 17-year-old had no previous convictions, had never come to the attention of garda\u00ed before, and that he had pleaded guilty to the charge of assault causing harm to Seamus Hunter.<\/p>\n
Mr Hunter testified that he was trying to stop the fighting and arguing that was going on on the street and when he saw young fellas with golfclubs, he roared: \u2018What are ye f***ing at, ye f***ing knackers\u2019. Then he said, \u2018Lads, ye can\u2019t go around with golfclubs, go home\u2019. That was when he got head-butted into the nose by the 17-year-old.<\/p>\n
Detective Garda David Kelleher examined the phones of several parties to the case and this enabled him to locate where in Doneraile they were at particular times. Ray Boland senior counsel for the 16-year-old defendant said that, from the phone data, the teenager was home all night until 1.44am on October 12, 2025.<\/p>\n
Mr Boland said that some minutes later at 2.07am and 27 seconds, the 16-year-old\u2019s phone was outside the gate of 2 Rockview Terrace and that in the minutes before this and shortly afterwards the locational pings for Barry Daly\u2019s phone indicated that Mr Daly was in the front garden of 1 Rockview Terrace.<\/p>\n
Questioning Det Garda Kelleher about the location showing for the 16-year-old\u2019s phone at 2am. and 27 seconds, Mr Boland said that while the defendant\u2019s distance from 1 Rockview Terrace appeared to be the length of two gardens it could have been closer or it could have been further away. Det Garda Kelleher agreed.<\/p>\n
The trial goes into Day 12 on Monday June 22. Ms Justice Lankford repeated her warning to the jurors not to conduct their own investigations, not to discuss the case with others and certainly not to visit locations in Doneraile that have been referred to in evidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Evidence from the partner of 44-year-old postman Barry Daly that as she lay in bed she heard a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2246,79,54,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-508965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cork-court","tag-cork-news","tag-courts","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508965","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=508965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}