A teenager has gone on trial charged with the murder of a 44-year-old postman who was found with \u201ccatastrophic facial injuries\u201d in the front garden of his home in Doneraile, Co Cork, last year. <\/p>\n
The 17-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, went on trial at a sitting of the Central Criminal Court in Cork on Thursday. He is charged with the murder of father-of-five Barry Daly on October 12th, 2025, at Rockview Terrace, Doneraile. He has pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty of manslaughter. <\/p>\n
Prosecution senior counsel Lorcan Staines gave the jury an outline of the \u201canticipated facts\u201d in the case. However, he emphasised that this was not evidence in itself. <\/p>\n
Staines said that on October 11th, 2025, the local hurling club in Doneraile won a Junior B hurling final. This was a \u201cmajor deal\u201d in Doneraile, and \u201cmost of the town went out to celebrate\u201d.<\/p>\n
He stated that an \u201can enormous amount of alcohol\u201d was consumed on the night, and that at closing time a melee broke out on the Main Street outside Eily\u2019s Bar. He said the jury would hear evidence that Daly punched the girlfriend of a man called Alex Deady, and that accounts would vary as to whether this was accidental or deliberate. <\/p>\n
He said the jury would hear that the 17-year-old was one of three young men seen walking in the direction of the home of Daly. He said each of them was seen with a golf club. <\/p>\n
Staines said the 17-year-old told garda\u00ed that Deady (20), hit Daly once. He claimed he \u201cdid not do anything\u201d. <\/p>\n
However, the prosecution barrister said it was \u201cfanciful\u201d to suggest one blow from a golf club caused the injuries suffered by Daly. <\/p>\n
He said DNA linked Deady, of Convent Road, Doneraile, to the grip of one golf club, and that the head of the club had come into contact with the head of the late Barry Daly. <\/p>\n
He said the jury would be relying on circumstantial evidence as to what occurred at Daly\u2019s house. <\/p>\n
Staines stated that Daly was subsequently found \u201cdead or dying\u201d in the front garden of his house. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe died extremely quickly after the incident. Barry Daly was effectively breathing in blood and died in those circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said Daly had sustained catastrophic facial injuries. <\/p>\n
\u201cOne side of his jaw is completely shattered, the other is broken. He has major injuries to the back of his head. The roof of his mouth is broken. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a large number of bruises, and a fairly serious injury to his leg consistent with being hit by an object.\u201d<\/p>\n
Staines added that the onus of proof was on the prosecution, and (the 17-year-old) \u201cdoes not have to prove anything\u201d.<\/p>\n
Judge Siobhan Lankford told the jury of seven women and five men that the case had attracted considerable publicity. She warned them not read anything about the case in the media. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenager has gone on trial charged with the murder of a 44-year-old postman who was found with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-553836","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\/553836","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=553836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}