Charges of increased severity have been brought against a former Mayo senior footballer and others allegedly involved in a serious assault in Castlebar, Co Mayo last August.<\/p>\n
Judge Michael Connellan was told at Castlebar District Court that charges against the 23-year-old Gaelic football player Davitt Neary of Shanvalley, Breaffy Woods, Castlebar, against 24-year-old Paul Dowding of Frenchill, Castlebar, and against 18-year-old Rhys Neary of Shanvalley, Breaffy Woods, Castlebar, have been upgraded from Section 3 (assault causing harm) to Section 4 (intentionally or recklessly causing serious harm).<\/p>\n
A fourth male, 23-year-old Oran Groarke of Ballynew, Castlebar was originally charged with violent disorder and that charge remains unchanged.<\/p>\n
Under Irish State law, a prosecution under Section 4 of the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act 1997 is the most serious category of non-fatal assault.<\/p>\n
Evidence of arrest, charge and caution against all four defendants was given by Detective Garda John Flannery and Detective Garda Roisin Loftus at the court sitting.<\/p>\n
All of the defendants made no reply when the upgraded charges were put to them at the Mall, Castlebar, this morning, the garda officers stated.<\/p>\n
Sergeant Conor McShane told Judge Connellan there was no objection to continuing bail for any of the defendants.<\/p>\n
All four were remanded on continuing bail to Castlebar District Court on 15 July for service of the book of evidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charges of increased severity have been brought against a former Mayo senior footballer and others allegedly involved in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-527799","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\/527799","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=527799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}