Eamonn Cumberton pleads not guilty to Dublin pub murder

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Eamonn Cumberton pleaded not guilty to murdering Michael Barr at the Special Criminal Court. Barr was shot dead at the Sunset House pub in Dublin’s north inner city on 25 April 2016. The proceedings were reported on 22 November 2017.

The prosecution alleges Cumberton is linked to items seized from a partially burnt-out car near the scene, which it says are linked to the shooting. Evidence from pub witnesses included accounts of masked men entering before the shooting and leaving moments later. The trial continued before Mr Justice Tony Hunt, sitting with Judge Patricia Ryan and Judge James Faughnan.