O’Donoghue solicitor to defend impact statements

THE solicitor who defended Wayne O’Donoghue is set to give an impassioned defence of the rights of victims to speak out in court about their ordeal.

O’Donoghue, who killed schoolboy Robert Holohan, had fresh allegations levelled against him when mother Majella Holohan made her statement last month.

Now O’Donoghue’s solicitor Frank Buttimer has been invited by University College Cork’s law society to argue in defence of the statements.