One of the two men accused of murdering 47-year-old Kieran Quilligan in Cork two years ago called into a garda station a week after Mr Quilligan went missing to say he was concerned about his friend\u2019s welfare and wanted to help the garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n
This evidence was given on Thursday on the second day of the murder trial at the Central Criminal Court sitting in Cork.<\/p>\n
Garda James Bird was on duty in the public office of Anglesea Street garda station at 4.40pm on September 8, 2023, when Luke Taylor arrived at the hatch. Mr Quilligan\u2019s partner had not seen him since around 8.30pm on September 1, 2023.<\/p>\n
\u201cLuke Taylor called at the hatch. He said he was concerned about the welfare of his friend Kieran Quilligan and he wanted to assist garda\u00ed,\u201d Garda Bird testified.<\/p>\n
33-year-old Niall Long, formerly of St. Michael\u2019s Close, Mahon, Cork, and 27-year-old Luke Taylor, formerly of Cherry Lawn, Blackrock, Cork, pleaded not guilty at the Central Criminal Court sitting in Cork to the single charge of murder.<\/p>\n
The murder count against each man states that on a date unknown between September 1, 2023, and January 29, 2024, at an unknown location within the state in the District Court area of Cork City he did murder Kieran Quilligan, contrary to Common Law.<\/p>\n
Garda Bird said today he invited Luke Taylor into a consultation room at Anglesea garda station after the young man offered his assistance. Sergeant John Gleeson was notified of Mr Taylor\u2019s arrival and he also went to the room.<\/p>\n
Garda Bird said: \u201cI asked him to recall his last known movements.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n He said they left his (Kieran Quilligan\u2019s) apartment at Anderson\u2019s Quay with the intention of meeting a group known as \u2018the blacks\u2019 to obtain crack cocaine for personal use, and also arrangements were made to go towards the train station to get a quantity of cocaine.\n <\/p>\n
\u201cHe said that on that day they had both consumed a large quantity of prescription drugs. As they moved on to meet this group, Mr Quilligan was told (by text) that the location was changed from Morrison\u2019s Island to the Electric pub on South Mall and the white bridge (Nano Nagle bridge) at Grand Parade.<\/p>\n
\u201cMr Taylor said he believed tablets were beginning to take effect and his memory was becoming hazy \u2014 he could not remember much more until he woke up in his girlfriend\u2019s apartment at Jacob\u2019s Island the next morning. He said he had \u20ac200 less in his pocket than he had the previous night.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Further garda witnesses are giving evidence today as the trial continues before Ms Justice Siobh\u00e1n Lankford and a jury of 10 men and two women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the two men accused of murdering 47-year-old Kieran Quilligan in Cork two years ago called into…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[781,9,10,27,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-112742","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-cork-news","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-courts","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\/112742","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=112742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}