A murder trial will hear evidence that a bloody palm print found on the architrave of a door in a house where a 61-year-old man was found lying dead in a pool of blood matched the print of the man accused of his killing.<\/p>\n
Prosecution counsel Jane Hyland gave an outline to the jury at the Central Criminal Court<\/a> in Cork on Wednesday of the evidence that they will hear in the trial of Daniel Hourigan, who has denied the murder of Michael Foley at Annville, Barrett\u2019s Place, Macroom, Co Cork, on February 1st, 2024.<\/p>\n Hyland told the jury of six men and six women that Foley had had some difficulties in his life previously, but he had been doing well since moving into the Macroom accommodation in 2022 provided by an agency called Housing First.<\/p>\n She said that a psychiatric nurse, Ciara Harmon, used to call twice a week to check on his welfare. She had been due to meet him on February 1st, 2024, for an appointment at the Mercy University Hospital<\/a> in Cork, but she was unable to make contact with him.<\/p>\n The jury will hear that Harmon called to carry out a welfare check on Foley at his home at Annville at 12.50pm on February 6th. After entering the property and calling out Foley\u2019s name, she saw him lying dead in a pool of blood on the floor in the kitchen; she left the building and rang garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n Garda\u00ed could see Foley had suffered a beating and, in addition to noting significant gash-type injuries to his skull and the pool of blood surrounding Foley\u2019s head, they also noted an arc-shaped spray of blood on the wall.<\/p>\n The jury will also hear how garda\u00ed began harvesting CCTV footage from around Macroom town and found CCTV footage from Annville that showed Foley passing the camera and returning home at 8.15pm on January 31st. \u201cIt is the last time that Michael Foley is seen alive,\u201d said Hyland.<\/p>\n Hyland said the Assistant State Pathologist, Dr Margot Bolster, carried out a postmortem and found that Foley had died a violent death, and his injuries included blows possibly from fists. He also suffered 11 stab wounds and 19 slash wounds and died due to haemorrhage, or blood loss.<\/p>\n Hyland told the jury they would also hear that garda\u00ed harvested other CCTV footage which showed the accused, Hourigan, who knew Foley and had stayed before with him at Annville, passing by the camera near Foley\u2019s house with a female companion, Linda O\u2019Flynn, at 8.19pm on January 31st, 2023.<\/p>\n