Rugby player was unintended victim, court told

Rugby player Shane Geoghegan was the unintended victim of a shooting that was meant for another man and was ordered by John Dundon, the Special Criminal Court has heard.

Opening the trial, Tom O’Connell, prosecuting, told the court it was the prosecution case that Mr Geoghegan was the unintended victim of a shooting and the actual target was a man named John McNamara, who lived close by the deceased in the Limerick suburb of Clonmore.

Mr O’Connell said the court would hear from key prosecution witness April Collins, who would give evidence that Mr Dundon ordered another man, Barry Doyle, to kill Mr McNamara. He said Ms Collins would tell the court that she heard Mr Dundon give Doyle a description of Mr McNamara and say that “everything was prepared, the gun and the car”.