A 21-year-old man has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Cork postman Barry Daly, in what was described by the judge as a “brutal action”.<\/p>\n
Alex Deady of Glen View, Convent Road in Doneraile, was last month convicted of murdering Mr Daly, a father-of-five, in the early hours of Sunday 12 October last year, outside his home at Rockview Terrace in Doneraile.<\/p>\n
Mr Daly, who was 44, died of catastrophic head and facial injuries that were inflicted with a golf club.<\/p>\n
Deady and two teenage boys, who cannot be named because of their age, went on trial in June charged with the murder.<\/p>\n
Deady and the older teenager, who is 17, pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Mr Daly but not guilty to his murder.<\/p>\n
During the trial the other teenager, who is 16, entered a plea of not guilty to murder but guilty to manslaughter. This plea was subsequently accepted by the Director of Public Prosecutions.<\/p>\n
Ms Justice Siobh\u00e1n Lankford today described the circumstances of Mr Daly’s death as brutal, adding that while the action that took his life was not prolonged, it was a “brutal action”.<\/p>\n
Ms Justice Lankford acknowledged that Deady does not accept the verdict of murder, but accepts he caused the death of Mr Daly, and faces a lengthy prison sentence.<\/p>\n
Ms Justice Lankford imposed the mandatory life sentence for murder, backdated to 3 July, adding that she would direct credit for any time he had previously spent in custody in relation to this matter.<\/p>\n
Ms Justice Lankford added that the case of Mr Daly’s death is one that has affected his local community and changed Doneraile forever.<\/p>\n
She also said that it was clear from victim impact statements that Mr Daly, who worked as a postman, cared for the community and was an exceptional person who cared to older people while working, noting many examples of his kindness “over his short life”.<\/p>\n
The court heard today that the two juveniles convicted in connection with Mr Daly’s death will be sentenced on 11 September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 21-year-old man has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Cork postman Barry Daly,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-610231","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\/610231","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=610231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}