A 16-year-old accused of the murder of a man (44) denied to garda\u00ed that he ever left his home on the night of the killing and insisted he was not the person captured on CCTV with his co-accused near the scene of the assault.<\/p>\n
The accused, who cannot be named because he is a juvenile, was interviewed by garda\u00ed and questioned about the killing of postman Barry Daly, a father of five, who died outside his home in Doneraile in north Cork in the early hours of October 12th, 2025.<\/p>\n
At the Central Criminal Court<\/a> sitting in Cork<\/a> on Monday, the jury of five men and seven women heard memos of interviews between the juvenile and Det Garda Hugh Byrne, Det Garda David Forsythe and Det Garda John O\u2019Donovan following his arrest on October 14th, 2025, for questioning about the killing.<\/p>\n Garda\u00ed showed the juvenile footage taken around Doneraile village in the early hours of October 12th but the youth denied he ever left home that night. He said he was not the person with his co-accused Alex Deady (21) and a 17-year-old-juvenile.<\/p>\n \u201cThat is not me, there is no proof that is me,\u201d said the juvenile after garda\u00ed showed him footage of three youths in Doneraile village just before and after the fatal assault of Daly where he identified one of the youths as Alex Deady whom he described as \u201cmad\u201d.<\/p>\n Deady of Glenview, Convent Road, Doneraile, and the two teenagers, who cannot be named because they are juveniles, have all pleaded not guilty to the murder of Barry Daly at Rockview Terrace, Doneraile on October 12th, 2025. Deady and the older teenager have pleaded guilty to his manslaughter.<\/p>\n The boy told garda\u00ed during an interview that he did not hit Daly with a golf club, did not assault Daly, and did not see anyone else assault him. He also told garda\u00ed they would not find his DNA on a broken golf club discarded by one of the suspects after the assault.<\/p>\n He was also played an excerpt of CCTV footage where a man identified by garda\u00ed as Deady is heard telling the third youth that \u201cyou are family, you are blood\u201d before using the juvenile\u2019s name. However, the juvenile said he never heard his name being used on the footage.<\/p>\n The juvenile told garda\u00ed he heard \u201cthe devastating news\u201d that Daly had died \u201cthe next day on the news\u201d.He insisted he \u201cdid not leave home\u201d on the night of October 11th\/12th. Byrne asked him was he absolutely sure about that and he replied: \u201cYeah.\u201d <\/p>\n The trial previously heard memos of Garda interviews with the 17-year-old juvenile, who denied evidence from Daly\u2019s partner, Katie O\u2019Reilly, that she heard someone shout outside their house, \u201cI\u2019m going to kill you\u201d shortly before Daly was fatally assaulted.<\/p>\n \u201cThose words were not said,\u201d said the older juvenile, who also rejected evidence from O\u2019Reilly that she heard a bang similar to someone getting a whack of something. He also denied evidence of witness John Glassett that he heard someone shout: \u201cI told him I will f**king kill him.\u201d<\/p>\n Asked by garda\u00ed if everything went according to plan when they called to Daly\u2019s house, the older juvenile replied: \u201cWe were going up expecting a fight to be honest \u2013 no intention to kill \u2026 there was no plan, there was nothing planned \u2013 I didn\u2019t hit him.\u201d <\/p>\n Defence counsel for the 17-year-old, Alice Fawsitt, said the evidence was that her client had told garda\u00ed that he had gone home and got golf clubs but notwithstanding the fact that her client had a golf club in his hand, he had used his head to headbutt another man earlier.<\/p>\n She said her client\u2019s evidence in effect was that \u201cI went and got golf clubs – I went with [Deady] to the house. Barry Daly came out from behind a pillar, he swung at me, I ducked, Alex hit him.\u201d <\/p>\n The case continues before the jury and Judge Siobhan Lankford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 16-year-old accused of the murder of a man (44) denied to garda\u00ed that he ever left his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-513723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513723","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=513723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}