{"id":70896,"date":"2025-10-10T03:39:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T03:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/70896\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T03:39:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T03:39:13","slug":"kerry-man-accused-of-murdering-brother-said-he-stabbed-him-after-he-came-at-him-with-a-knife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/70896\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry man accused of murdering brother said he stabbed him after he came at him with a knife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Distressing 999 call records neighbour trying to get deceased to \u2018stay with them\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Abina McSweeney, who gave evidene at the Kerry murder trial in Limerick. Photo by Brendan Gleeson. \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760067553_431_a1bd001f-50b1-4037-a201-2fea1c493261.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Abina McSweeney, who gave evidene at the Kerry murder trial in Limerick. Photo by Brendan Gleeson. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Central Criminal Court has heard that Fergus O\u2019Connor told a neighbour he stabbed his brother Paudie O\u2019Connor after he came at him a knife. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Abina McSweeney told the court in her evidence on day three of the Kerry murder trial that she spoke to murder accused Fergus O\u2019Connor while he was at a neighbour&#8217;s house. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Distressing 999 call records neighbour trying to get deceased to \u2018stay with them\u2019 Abina McSweeney, who gave evidene&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,4256],"class_list":["post-70896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-sinead-kelleher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70896","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=70896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}