Nally awaits outcome on appeal for manslaughter

THE Court of Criminal Appeal has reserved its judgment in the appeal of Co Mayo farmer Padraig Nally who was jailed for six years for shooting dead a Traveller on his land in 2004.

Nally’s counsel, Brendan Grehan SC, submitted to the court that the trial judge Mr Justice Paul Carney had erred in law by not allowing the jury to consider a defence of self defence and by not allowing them to bring in an acquittal.

At the trial Mr Justice Paul Carney told the jury they could only bring in a verdict of either guilty of murder or manslaughter.