Shane Geoghegan remembered a year on

WHEN the Garryowen thirds team took to the field at the weekend, there was no number 3 on the jersey of the tight head prop.

This is a reminder of a savage murder one year ago today, when Shane Geoghegan was gunned down when he was mistaken for a drug baron who moved into Kilteragh estate in Dooradoyle where Shane lived with his fiancée. He had been at a friends house in the estate to watch the Ireland v Australia rugby game.

Shane was walking towards his own house at around 1.30 on Sunday morning when a gunman appeared and started firing a semi-automatic weapon. Shane ran and got in a side entrance to a neighbour’s house. The gunman followed and Shane fell dead near a rear patio door.