‘Feud’ over dirt track led to farmer shooting another

A “feud” between two farmers over “a small dirt track” linking their farms led to one man shooting the other and killing his dog, a court heard on Saturday.

Ted O’Donoghue, aged 72, of Killmoreen, Kildimo, Co Limerick, appeared before a special sitting of Limerick District Court charged with assault causing harm to John Hayes, 65, at farmlands at Ballycasey, Kildimo, on Friday.

Despite strenuous Garda objections to bail, Judge Marie Keane remanded Mr O’Donoghue in custody with consent to bail on a number of “very strict conditions”.