‘It’s only a pig’s head, not a human head’

The man accused of sending a pig’s head in the post to the home of a garda told gardaí that “it is only a pig’s head, not a human head”.

At Ennis Circuit Court yesterday, the jury heard numerous denials from Brendan Mahoney, aged 48, of 74 Cabra Park, Dublin 7, in four Garda interviews that he sent the pig’s head to Garda Paul Heaslip on January 26, 2012.

On the second day of the trial, Sgt Ronan O’Hara said that he arrested Mahoney for questioning in February 2012 after identifying him from CCTV footage taken from Prussia St post office in Dublin on January 26.