A Limerick woman has testified to hearing the defendant in the Shane Geoghegan murder trial being told to kill a man and later insisting he got the right man.
April Collins was giving evidence to the Central Criminal Court on day three of the trial.
Barry Doyle (26), Portland Row, Dublin, has pleaded not guilty to murdering Mr Geoghegan (28) at about 1am on November 9th, 2008, at Kilteragh, Dooradoyle. The Garryowen rugby player was shot near his home in a case of mistaken identity.
Ms Collins said that the night before the murder there was a conversation between the father of her three children Ger Dundon, his brother John Dundon, Barry Doyle and others.
She said that John Dundon told Mr Doyle what John McNamara looked like. “The gun is there, you kill him,” he told Mr Doyle, she said.
Afterwards, Ms Collins said, “we met John Dundon and Barry Doyle. John was saying John McNamara was dead.”