Vigils in her memory have been held in Youghal and Fermoy. A private family funeral has also taken place.
AdvertisementOfficers from the Kerry Divisional Drugs Unit, Cork, and a number of other units were involved in the operation.Follow-up searches were conducted in Kerry and Cork which resulted in the arrests of two men and the seizure of two firearms.
The men, both aged in their 40s, are currently detained at Garda stations.A Revenue statement said: "This seizure is part of Revenue’s ongoing joint investigations involving organised crime groups and the importation, sale and supply of illegal drugs."If businesses, or members of the public, have any information regarding drug smuggling, they can contact Revenue in confidence on phone number 1800 295 295."
A Rathkeale man who was jailed for 10 years for causing serious harm to an elderly man with a machete has had his conviction overturned due to the failure by gardaí to seek out CCTV footage of the attack.At Limerick Circuit Criminal Court in November 2021, John O'Donoghue was convicted of assault causing serious harm to Willie O'Driscoll Snr, then aged 74, in Bothar Buí, Rathkeale, Co Limerick, on December 17th, 2017.
AdvertisementMr O’Donoghue (54), of Lower Main Street, Rathkeale, was also convicted of violent disorder on the same date and location during an incident between two families.
A jury unanimously convicted O’Donoghue of assault causing serious harm and of violent disorder, but found him not guilty of a charge of the production of an article – a machete – during the course of a dispute and of making threats to kill.Gardaí who attended the scene noted that the defendant told John Cash, "You got what you deserved." After he was arrested and placed in a Garda car, Cash said: "He had it coming to him for twelve years."
Passing sentence on Monday, Ms Justice Creedon said Andrew Cash’s sister Elizabeth was married to John Cash, and they had seven children together.She said apart from being members of the same family, there was evidence of “some history” between the two men because Andrew Cash believed the deceased had been intimate with his wife, “although the veracity of that was not established”, she said.
John Cash's sister Bridget speaks to the media outside the Criminal Courts of Justice in Dublin. Photo: CollinsOn the day of the killing, Andy Cash had an argument with his wife about what he believed had happened some 10 or 12 years earlier, she said.Andrew Cash encountered John Cash and his wife in Kilkenny City later that day, got out of his car and was seen “gesticulating and shouting” towards them, the judge said.
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