The 17-year-old on trial for murdering 44-year-old postman Barry Daly in his front garden said a man calling him a “knacker” when he was on his way up to the deceased\u2019s home with a golf club in each hand at about 2am was hurtful.<\/p>\n
An earlier witness in the trial, Seamus Hunter, testified he was trying to calm things in Doneraile in the early hours of last October 12 and when he saw two young fellas with golfclubs, the first thing that came out of his mouth was: “What are ye fucking at, ye fucking knackers.”<\/p>\n
He said he approached them with his hands up to tell them they couldn\u2019t go around with golf clubs and that they should go home. That was when he got head-butted into the left side of his nose by the 17-year-old.<\/p>\n
This evidence was put to the 17-year-old who is now on trial for murder, when he was interviewed by garda\u00ed soon after the fatal incident in Doneraile.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The teenager said to garda\u00ed: \u201cI don\u2019t get why he called us knackers. That is hurtful to me.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
This interview evidence was played throughout the fifth day of the trial at the Central Criminal Court. The 17-year-old, who cannot be identified as he is a juvenile, pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to manslaughter of 44-year-old Bary Daly at Rockview Terrace in Doneraile on October 12, 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He is on trial before Ms Justice Siobh\u00e1n Lankford and a jury of six men and six women at the Central Criminal Court sitting in Cork.<\/p>\n
He told garda\u00ed in one of the interviews he took three golf clubs from a golf bag at his home. He said they were irons from a set of coloured clubs and he brought black, red and silver clubs into Doneraile and gave one to 20-year-old Alex Deady when he met him.<\/p>\n
During the investigation, two broken clubs were found. Garda\u00ed asked the 17-year-old how they got broken and he replied one was broken from hitting the ground. Regarding the second broken club, he said he could not remember where or how it got broken.<\/p>\n
Asked about what occurred in the garden, the teenager said of the deceased, Barry Daly: \u201cHe was coming for me. Alex hit him once. I could see he was swinging for me and he falling. After he falling we went away.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Elsewhere in the interviews in relation to having golf clubs, he said: \u201cWe didn\u2019t want to do what we did, we didn\u2019t go up there planning what we did. I didn\u2019t plan to use it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Asked: \u201cDid you use it?\u201d the teenager replied: \u201cI didn\u2019t.\u201d Asked if he had been drinking that night, he said: “No.” Asked if he had \u201ctaken anything\u201d? he also said no.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And asked about how he got on with people generally and if he had any difficulties with people at the time, he said: \u201cI\u2019m not fighting or arguing with anyone, I am friends with most people.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
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