‘Illiterate’ Dundon hospitalised with head injury

The opening day of the trial of John Dundon for the murder of Shane Geoghegan saw the accused man taken to hospital for a head injury after earlier telling the court he was illiterate and had sacked his legal team and elected to represent himself.

A gaunt, wheelchair-bound Mr Dundon appeared in the morning for arraignment at the non-jury Special Criminal Court, which heard the accused man had dismissed his legal representatives last week.

In June, the court heard Mr Dundon informed prison authorities on May 30 that he was going on a hunger and thirst strike.