‘No one has right to take a man’s life’, says Cork stab victim’s family

The family of a man stabbed to death at Christmas time in Cork City said nobody had the right to take another person’s life, adding that this was a job for God alone.

Superintendent Charles Barry outlined what happened on the night/early morning of December 26/27, 2011, when Gerard Delaney was killed at Lower Friars Walk, Ballyphehane, Cork.

The deceased’s brother Finbarr Delaney believed the visit of associates of the Crinnion family to his bar was intended to intimidate, so he went to their local, the Manhattan Bar, to warn them not to do so. He was unarmed and unmasked, but his brother, Gerard, and another man, wore masks and carried wooden bats as they stood with him in the pub.