Barr says superintendents to blame for Abbeylara

THE fatal shooting of John Carthy by gardaí in Abbeylara “should never have happened”, the Barr Tribunal has found.

Mr Carthy, 27, who suffered from bipolar depression, was killed on April 20, 2000, following a 25-hour stand-off at his family home.

He was shot four times by two members of the garda Emergency Response Unit (ERU), after he emerged from the house carrying a shotgun and ignored orders to drop the weapon.