Geoghegan suspect ‘confessed to shooting’

THE man accused of murdering Shane Geoghegan in Limerick over two years ago confessed to the killing the 28-year-old rugby player during interviews with gardaí, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

Barry Doyle, aged 25, with an address at Portland Row, Dublin, and Hyde Road, Limerick, has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Mr Geoghegan at Clonmore, Kilteragh, Dooradoyle, Co Limerick, in the early hours of November 9, 2008.

The opening day of the trial at the Criminal Courts of Justice in Dublin heard Mr Geoghegan had been shot in a case of mistaken identity as he walked home at around 1am after watching a rugby match on TV in a friend’s house in another part of the Kilteragh estate.