Jury begin deliberations again in Doneraile murder trial after juror returns

Barry Daly was dound dead in Doneraile on October 12, 2025.

The juror who was absent in the Doneraile murder trial yesterday returned today and has now re-joined the other jurors for the commencement of the fifth day of deliberations.

For the past week the trial has been going ahead before a jury of 11 as one woman was discharged because she was unable to continue. By agreement of all parties, the trial continued in front of the jury of five men and six women.

On Monday, one of the 11 failed to appear at the Central Criminal Court sitting in Cork. He returned on Tuesday and the deliberations resumed. It is the fifth day of deliberations.

The third person who was put on trial charged with murdering 44-year-old postman Barry Daly in his front garden in Doneraile last October remains before the court and the jury are trying to decide if he is guilty of manslaughter or murder.

The 17-year-old stood in the Central Criminal Court in Cork on June 3 and was arraigned on the charge of murdering Mr Daly at Rockview Terrace in Doneraile on October 12, 2025. He replied that was not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter.

The issue the jury have to decide is between murder and manslaughter.

Co-accused 20-year-old Alex Deady of Glenview, Convent Road, Doneraile, County Cork, also pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to manslaughter. On Friday, July 3, the jury found him guilty of murder.

The 16-year-old co-accused who was put on trial on June 3 initially pleaded not guilty to murder. Following legal discussions in the absence of the jury this 16-year-old was rearraigned on June 24 and he entered a plea of guilty for the first time, in the following terms, “not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter,” and this plea to manslaughter was acceptable to the DPP in his case.