Man ‘thrown like rag doll in vicious, prolonged attack’

The jury in the trial of seven Dubliners charged with murder has seen footage of what the prosecutor described as a “vicious, prolonged and sustained attack” involving kicks and stamps to the 20-year-old’s head and body, after which he was thrown “like a rag doll”.

Dale Creighton died on January 2, 2014, about two days after an incident at the footbridge over the Tallaght bypass between St Dominic’s Rd and Greenhills Rd.

At the Central Criminal Court, Aisling Burke, aged 23, and David Burke, aged 28, both with a current address at Beechpark, Collinstown, Co Westmeath; Graham Palmer, aged 26, Park Avenue, Portarlington, Co Laois; Ross Callery, aged 23, of Gortlum Cottages, Brittas, Co Dublin; James Reid, aged 26, Glen Aoibhinn, Gorey, Co Wexford; Jason Beresford, aged 23, of Coill Diarmuida, Ard a’ Laoi, Castledermot, Co Kildare; and Gerard Stevens, aged 27, of Grosvner Square, Rathmines, Dublin, have all pleaded not guilty to murder.