Eoghan O’Connell remanded for attempted murder sentence

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Eoghan O’Connell was remanded in custody for attempting to murder a Wicklow man at the Central Criminal Court on 19 February 2018. He had pleaded guilty to the attempted murder at Old Court Park, Bray, on 8 April 2016.

The court heard that shotgun cartridges were damp and misfired as O’Connell allegedly tried to shoot the man outside his family home. Mr Justice Patrick McCarthy was due to deliver sentence on 16 March 2018.