Thomas Dooley murdered at Kerry funeral; five men jailed for life

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Five men were jailed for life for murdering Thomas Dooley at the Central Criminal Court in Cork on 30 July 2024. He was killed at Rath Cemetery in Tralee on 5 October 2022.

The five men were members of Mr Dooley’s close and extended family. The court also imposed a concurrent four-and-a-half-year sentence on Thomas Dooley Junior for assaulting Mr Dooley’s wife, Siobhán.

The sentencing followed jury convictions for murder. The prosecution alleged that the killing followed a breakdown in the relationship between one of Mr Dooley’s daughters and one of the convicted men; the allegation was not presented as a judicial finding in the reports.