{"id":675708,"date":"2026-11-05T12:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T12:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/675708\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T12:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T12:28:12","slug":"man-allegedly-slashed-former-friend-and-later-punched-him-while-out-with-children-at-halloween-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/675708\/","title":{"rendered":"Man allegedly slashed former friend and later punched him while out with children at Halloween \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

A west Clare<\/a> man allegedly slashed a former \u201cvery close friend\u201d across the face with a Stanley knife and then allegedly assaulted him four days later when the man was out trick or treating with his children at Halloween.<\/p>\n

It was alleged that Martin O\u2019Callaghan (38) slashed Thomas De Loughrey at Beechpark, John Paul Estate, Kilrush, from his right ear to the corner of his mouth, on October 27th.<\/p>\n

Garda Brion Dolan told Ennis District Court<\/a> the wound was 10cm long and 1cm deep, but de Loughrey initially refused medical assistance before going to University Hospital Limerick two days later.<\/p>\n

In relation to a second assault-causing-harm charge against O\u2019Callaghan, Dolan said de Loughlrey was out \u201ctrick or treating\u201d with his children near his home on October 31st last when he met O\u2019Callaghan.<\/p>\n

The garda said de Loughrey was wearing a snood to hide the wound, and an argument began between the two where O\u2019Callaghan is alleged to have punched de Loughrey in the face, which he said reopened the wound.<\/p>\n

Dolan said de Loughrey provided a statement of complaint to garda\u00ed. He said that until recently, de Loughrey and O\u2019Callaghan had been \u201cvery close friends\u201d.<\/p>\n

Solicitor Tara Godfrey told Judge Adrian Harris she was seeking bail for her client.<\/p>\n

Objecting to bail for the accused, Dolan handed photographs into court of the slash injury to de Loughrey\u2019s face.<\/p>\n

Dolan said a Garda search of O\u2019Callaghan\u2019s property had recovered a Stanley knife held together with duct tape.<\/p>\n

Dolan said it will also be alleged that on October 29th, O\u2019Callaghan went to de Loughrey\u2019s home to apologise for assaulting him. <\/p>\n

He said the two men live less than 100m apart in Kilrush.<\/p>\n

Dolan said O\u2019Callaghan has a very serious drug addiction, and on Halloween was very intoxicated.<\/p>\n

He expressed concern that if O\u2019Callaghan secures bail, he will attempt to interfere with de Loughrey and try to coerce him to withdraw the charges.<\/p>\n

The judge refused bail, and Godfrey asked that O\u2019Callaghan be placed on a drug-free landing in prison.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Callaghan was remanded in custody to Ennis District Court to November 18th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A west Clare man allegedly slashed a former \u201cvery close friend\u201d across the face with a Stanley knife…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[15469,5721,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-675708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-clare","tag-district-court","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675708","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=675708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}