ANGRY SCENES AS BALLYBANE MANSLAUGHTER TRIAL COLLAPSES

Date Published: 05-Dec-2007

The trial has collapsed of a Ballybane man charged with the manslaughter of a Bohermore man, whose charred remains were found in a burnt out car last yearThere were angry scenes at Galway Circuit Criminal Court yesterday when up to thirty people stormed out of the courtroom when the manslaughter trial fellFollowing disturbances in the courthouse last week, extra Gardai were drafted in for yesterday’s trial of 27 year old Thomas “Tom Tom” McDonagh of 35 Lios na Run, BallybaneHe denied a charge of unlawfully killing 38 year old Joseph Sweeney in the early hours of Monday, March 27, 2006, at Rocklands Avenue, Ballybane