{"id":92606,"date":"2025-10-20T13:15:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T13:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/92606\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T13:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T13:15:08","slug":"man-guilty-of-murdering-brother-in-stabbing-after-family-funeral-in-kerry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/92606\/","title":{"rendered":"Man guilty of murdering brother in stabbing after family funeral in Kerry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking\u00a0|\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fergus O'Connor\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/b9c43451-d72d-4c89-80d0-82046cfe22cf.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)\">Fergus O&#8217;Connor<\/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)\">A jury has found Fergus O\u2019Connor guilty of the murder of his brother Paudie O\u2019Connor after a family funeral in Castleisland, Co Kerry.<\/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)\">After seven days of evidence, the 12-person jury had been asked to consider a verdict on whether or not Fergus O\u2019Connor intended to kill his brother and was therefore guilty of murder, or whether he acted in self-defence during a row with his brother and in doing so, used excessive force, which would be considered manslaughter. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Breaking\u00a0|\u00a0 Fergus O&#8217;Connor A jury has found Fergus O\u2019Connor guilty of the murder of his brother Paudie O\u2019Connor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,4256],"class_list":["post-92606","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\/92606","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=92606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}