{"id":101779,"date":"2025-10-03T21:14:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T21:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/101779\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T21:14:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T21:14:14","slug":"man-appears-in-court-accused-of-murder-in-co-donegal-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/101779\/","title":{"rendered":"Man appears in court accused of murder in Co Donegal \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">A man has been charged with the murder of Eddie Friel in Killybegs, Co Donegal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">James Spendley (58), of St Cummins Hill, Killybegs, appeared before Ballyshannon District Court on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">At court a previous charge of causing serious harm was withdrawn. He has been in custody since April on that charge, which he denied.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Mr Friel, who was in his 60s, was found dead in his home on Harbour View Drive, Killybegs, on April 13th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Det Gda Niall Brady told the court Mr Spendley made no reply when charged on Friday morning with murdering Friel on April 12th or 13th. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Eddie Friel was found dead in his Killybegs home on April 13th. Photograph: Rip.ie\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/QUXAWAZL3RHILH4PCIDAYKRZ4Q.jpeg\"   width=\"800\" height=\"800\"\/>Eddie Friel was found dead in his Killybegs home on April 13th. Photograph: Rip.ie <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Sergeant Maurice Doyle told the court the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has directed the accused should be tried on indictment in the Central Criminal Court. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Judge \u00c9ite\u00e1in Cunningham remanded Mr Spendley in custody to appear before Sligo District Court on Thursday. Legal aid was granted. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Members of Mr Friel\u2019s family were present in court in Ballyshannon when the new charge was brought. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been charged with the murder of Eddie Friel in Killybegs, Co Donegal. James Spendley (58),&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,19715,6368,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-101779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-district-court","11":"tag-donegal","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}