Cousin of fatal stab victim ordered to pay €2k to killer's mother after criminal damage at killer's home

At Ennis Circuit Court, Judge Brian O’Callaghan stated that Mr de Loughrey of Ballinagun West, Cree in west Clare and the other two had taken the law into their own hands by going to the property.

A cousin of a west Clare man stabbed to death three years ago has been ordered pay €2,000 compensation to the mother of his cousin’s killer.

Robbie Walsh (aged 24) of Island View, Kilrush, stabbed the 25-year-old father of one Karl Haugh to death in the early hours of August 6, 2017, at the Marian Estate, Kilkee.