GAA star cleared of assaulting woman

KERRY footballer Declan Quill smiled with relief yesterday after being found not guilty by a jury of nine men and three women of assaulting a woman on the night of the Kerry v Meath All-Ireland semi-final last year.

Mr Quill, 20, of Ashgrove, Ballyvelly, Tralee, a student at Mary Immaculate College of Education, Limerick, will line out with his club, Kerins O’Rahillys, in the Kerry county senior football championship final against Kilcummin, at Killarney, on Sunday.

Members of his family and friends, who were in the public gallery for the two-day trial at the Circuit Criminal Court in Tralee, wept and shook hands when the jury brought in the verdict after being out for less than two hours.