Student charged with killing schoolboy Robert

A STUDENT appeared in court last night charged with the manslaughter of Midleton schoolboy Robert Holohan.

Wayne O’Donoghue, aged 20, of Ballyedmond Hill, Midleton, appeared before the town’s district court shortly after 8.30pm.

Approximately 100 people gathered outside the courthouse as O’Donoghue was led in. Some members of the crowd, which included many young people, shouted at the CIT student. O’Donoghue, a second-year engineering student, is accused of unlawfully killing 11-year-old Robert on January 4 this year.