Thomas Dooley attack 'was carried out with murderous ferocity', Kerry murder trial told

Five men and one teenager have pleaded not guilty to the murder of 43-year-old Thomas Dooley at a funeral at Rath Cemetery in Tralee

Thomas Dooley who was fatally wounded at an incident at Rath Cemetery in Tralee during a funeral service. Picture via Facebook

The prosecution case against five men and a teenager charged with the murder of a father-of-seven at a funeral in Tralee described the “phenomenal pathos and tragedy of this case” where one of the accused men is a younger brother of the dead man.

But the lead prosecution lawyer Dean Kelly said in his opening speech: “I want you to know this, this was not a fight. If you hear it was a fight it cannot be called a fight. This was not a row. This was not an escalation. It was nothing of the sort.