Cork 'family was in terror' due to feud when they fired a gun during garda raid, court told

Judge Helen Boyle said she would consider all matters and impose sentence on February 24

Tom Creed for James Keenan (pictured) said:  “He pleaded guilty at an early stage. Other exceptional and specific circumstances are that the Keenan family were greatly in fear of the McDonaghs. This family was in terror." File picture

The Keenan family were living “in terror” when they resorted to extraordinary and illegal measures to defend themselves from another family in a feud.

That was how the defence categorised the actions of a 56-year-old father and three of his adult sons. James Keenan said the feud with the McDonaghs is now over.