Gardaí 'unable to search crowd' before graveyard shooting

Gardaí were unable to search an assembled crowd of up to 80 travellers outside a Sligo cemetery on the day a traveller was fatally shot in the back at a family funeral, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

Inspector James Curry said he told one of the accused, Mr Michael "Hitler" McDonagh snr at Ballymote cemetery that gardaí wished to search the crowd for weapons.