Man used homemade shotgun, prosecution claims

A Co Offaly man used a homemade shotgun to shoot dead a 20-year-old man at a cider party in Birr, a prosecution lawyer alleged at a murder trial today.

Man used homemade shotgun, prosecution claims

A Co Offaly man used a homemade shotgun to shoot dead a 20-year-old man at a cider party in Birr, a prosecution lawyer alleged at a murder trial today.

Opening the State’s case against Oliver Coleman, aged 36, Mr John Edwards SC told the court that the accused returned to the house armed with the gun following a verbal row with Mr Michael Rosney.

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