Man who shot GAA player said ‘I crossed a line’ and days later killed himself

A man who took his life while in custody after confessing to shooting dead another man told gardaí there was a “thin line” and he had “crossed it”, an inquest heard.

Shane Rogers, aged 32, from Deery Terrace in Inniskeen, Co Monaghan, was speaking to Sgt Kieran Moore, having handed himself in after he fatally shot Crossmaglen GAA player James Hughes, 35, in an incident near Dundalk on the night of Dec 11, 2011.

He took his own life while in a holding cell at Cloverhill Courthouse following a remand hearing on Dec 20, 2011. A report into the incident, released earlier this year, found he had not been checked for almost an hour before he was found.