'There are very few plots left': Court hears burial plot row is 'the stuff of John B Keane'

An 81-year old farmer told a court today that but for the fact that he was on consecrated ground, he would have been killed instantly when assaulted by a man armed with a slash hook in a graveyard.
'There are very few plots left': Court hears burial plot row is 'the stuff of John B Keane'

Martin O'Shaughnessy at Gort Court
Martin O'Shaughnessy at Gort Court

An 81-year old farmer told a court today that but for the fact that he was on consecrated ground, he would have been killed instantly when assaulted by a man armed with a slash hook in a graveyard.

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