Man pleads guilty to manslaughter after body of woman found in car boot

A 53-year-old man has today pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of a woman whose body was found in the boot of the car.

Bernard Curran, of no fixed abode, was charged with the murder of 30-year-old mother-of one Helen Donegan, who was shot dead shortly after she went missing from her rented home in St Patrick’s Park, Celbridge, Co Kildare, on the morning of May 6 last year.

His manslaughter plea has been accepted by the prosecution. He will be sentenced at the Central Criminal Court next February.