Barry Daly\u2019s partner jumped out of bed and ran out to their garden after two o\u2019clock in the morning to find blood everywhere and she lay beside him begging him to come back, it was recalled at a murder trial in the Central Criminal Court in Cork.<\/p>\n
This evidence was recalled by Ms Justice Siobh\u00e1n Lankford as she summarised for the jury the testimonies of a number of witnesses when the Doneraile murder trial resumed today (June 29).<\/p>\n
The judge said that she was going to summarise the evidence of many witnesses only very briefly but that for some of them she would describe the testimony in greater detail. One such witness was the late Barry Daly\u2019s partner, Katie O\u2019Reilly.<\/p>\n
Ms Justice Lankford said, \u201cShe said that Barry would have a few drinks at home, but that socialising was a bit of a rarity, that he went out about once a month. Everything was fine on that day. He was with his brother-in-law. He was on a week\u2019s holidays. He was in mighty form \u2013 he had won \u20ac600 on the Lotto\u2026 They went out around 7 p.m.. He didn\u2019t have a key. He was going to knock on the bedroom window. She was expecting Barry. She was lying in bed.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe heard a lot of shouting. It was more than one person, male voices. She heard, \u2018I am going to kill you\u2019 in an angry voice, and Barry saying, \u2018Stop\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs she lay in bed she said to herself, \u2018I hope to God that is not Barry.\u2019 She said, \u2018I could hear the bangs like someone getting whacked. They were horrible full force bangs of someone.\u2019 \u201cShe ran out to Barry. There was blood everywhere. She said, \u2018I lay down by him. I knew he was dead. I checked for a pulse. I lay down beside him. I kept begging him to come back. I was lying beside Barry for maybe two minutes.\u201d Ms Justice Lankford recounted the cross-examination by Alice Fawsitt senior counsel on behalf of the 17-year-old defendant, in which it was pointed out that in Ms O\u2019Reilly\u2019s statement to garda\u00ed she never described hearing Barry say, \u2018Stop\u2019, and she only described hearing one bang and not bangs, plural. Ms Fawsitt said that her instructions in the case were that no one shouted, \u2018I\u2019m going to kill him\u2019.<\/p>\n
Another witness dealt with in some detail by the trial judge was Rachel O\u2019Kelly, girlfriend of one of the accused, Alex Deady. The judge recalled Ms O\u2019Kelly\u2019s evidence about being struck in Doneraile earlier that night by Barry Daly: \u201cHis pupils were most certainly dilated. He was looking at me with his mouth open, definitely angry. There was about ten seconds of eye contact. He hit me into the side of the face with his fist\u2026 It was most definitely purposeful.\u201d She said her brother Fionn was headbutted by another person with the deceased seconds after she was punched.<\/p>\n
Another witness said that on the night in Doneraile, Barry Daly said to him, in relation to striking Rachel O\u2019Kelly, \u201cI did not mean it.\u201d 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 recalled by Ms Justice Lankford for the jury. 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 He did not know who was shouting these words.<\/p>\n
20-year-old Alex Deady of Glenview, Convent Road, Doneraile, County Cork, and a 17-year-old each face a 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, at the outset of the trial.<\/p>\n
The jury will have to decide in each case if the defendant is guilty of murder or manslaughter. Issues that they will have to consider will be the intention of each defendant, and whether the intention was to have a fight and harm Barry Daly, in which case the verdict would be manslaughter, or if they intended to kill or cause serious harm in which case the verdict would be murder.<\/p>\n
Other issues that the jury were told they were required to consider include whether there was provocation and whether they were acting together in what is legally termed common design or joint enterprise.<\/p>\n
The jury no longer has to consider the case against a third accused. On June 24 the third defendant, who is 16, entered a plea of guilty for the first time, in the following terms, \u201cNot guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter,\u201d and this plea to manslaughter was acceptable to the DPP.<\/p>\n
One juror in the case was unable to continue with the case today (June 29) and she was thanked by the judge for her commitment to the case to date and she was discharged from taking a further part in the trial which now continues before a jury of six women and five men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barry Daly\u2019s partner jumped out of bed and ran out to their garden after two o\u2019clock in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[79,54,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-525033","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\/525033","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=525033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}