Court archive
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2017-03-20 · Ballyvaughan, Clare
Colm Deely, aged 45, was sentenced to eight years' imprisonment for the manslaughter of 43‑year‑old Deirdre McCarthy. The case arose after McCarthy's body washed up on Fanore Beach, Co Clare, after Deely had dumped her in the sea. Deely had earlier been convicted of murder in 2013, but that conviction was quashed because the forensic work of…
2017-03-13 · Ballyvaughan, Clare
In a Central Criminal Court hearing on 13 March 2017, Helen Geoghegan, sister of Deirdre McCarthy, delivered a victim‑impact statement describing the profound grief and lasting trauma her family endured after McCarthy's strangulation and body was dumped in the sea near Fanore Beach on 31 March 2011. Geoghegan recalled McCarthy as a kind,…
2017-01-16 · Ballyvaughan, Clare
In a Central Criminal Court hearing on 16 January 2017, Colm Deely, aged 44, admitted to manslaughter in the death of Deirdre McCarthy, 43, whose body was found on Fanore Beach on 31 March 2011. Deely had originally pleaded not guilty to murder and was convicted in June 2013, receiving a life sentence. The conviction was quashed in December 2016…
2016-03-14 · Ballyvaughan, Clare
In March 2011, Colm Deely of Ballyvaughan was convicted of murdering 43‑year‑old Deirdre McCarthy. The Central Criminal Court found him guilty of killing her between 11 pm on 27 March and noon the next day. After her body was discovered, Deely stabbed himself in the stomach and was hospitalised. He claimed he had not intended to kill her, saying…