{"id":665993,"date":"2026-10-26T17:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T17:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/665993\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T17:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T17:00:10","slug":"man-39-charged-with-murder-of-man-in-mallow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/665993\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 39, charged with murder of man in Mallow"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 39-year-old man has been charged with the murder of Paul O’Connor in Mallow almost a fortnight ago.<\/p>\n

Alfred Gjonaj, with an address in Co Cork, was remanded in custody when he was brought before the district court in Fermoy this afternoon.<\/p>\n

Paul O’Connor was 56 and from Ballyphehane in Cork.<\/p>\n

On 15 October, his body was found on a walkway on the banks of the River Blackwater at Ballyellis, 2km outside Mallow.<\/p>\n

He had been shot.<\/p>\n

He had travelled by train from Cork city to Mallow the night before.<\/p>\n

Garda\u00ed issued an appeal for information to help piece together how he got from the train station to where his body was found and what he was doing there.<\/p>\n

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\nPaul O’Connor was found dead on a walkway near the River Blackwater<\/p>\n

The area where his body was found was sealed off and examined by members of the Garda Technical Bureau.<\/p>\n

A murder investigation was confirmed following the completion of a post-mortem examination on his body by the Assistant State Pathologist, Dr Margot Bolster.<\/p>\n

Last week, investigating garda\u00ed arrested a man in his 30s and a woman in her 40s for questioning.<\/p>\n

This afternoon, 39-year old Alfred Gjonaj was brought by investigating garda\u00ed before a special district court sitting in Fermoy, Co Cork.<\/p>\n

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\nPaul O’Connor’s body was found on 15 October on a walkway just outside Mallow<\/p>\n

His address cannot be published by order of the court.<\/p>\n

He was charged with the murder of Paul O’Connor.<\/p>\n

Detective Garda Noelle McSweeney gave evidence of arresting Alfred Gjonaj at Mallow garda station last night and putting the charge to him.<\/p>\n

She said he made no reply to the charge.<\/p>\n

Solicitor David O’Meara said he was representing Mr Gjonaj and would be lodging an application for free legal aid.<\/p>\n

The woman in her 40s who was arrested for questioning was released without charge this afternoon.<\/p>\n

Today’s hearing lasted just under three minutes.<\/p>\n

There was no application for bail, as bail cannot be granted in the district court on a murder charge.<\/p>\n

Judge John King remanded Alfred Gjonaj in custody.<\/p>\n

He will be back before the court via video link tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 39-year-old man has been charged with the murder of Paul O’Connor in Mallow almost a fortnight ago.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-665993","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\/665993","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=665993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}