{"id":135958,"date":"2025-10-21T11:43:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T11:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/135958\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T11:43:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T11:43:12","slug":"murder-accused-texted-girlfriend-theyre-trying-to-put-me-in-the-mix-after-skeletal-remains-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/135958\/","title":{"rendered":"Murder accused texted girlfriend ‘they\u2019re trying to put me in the mix’ after skeletal remains found"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the men on trial<\/strong> for the murder<\/strong> of a man whose skeletal remains were found in a gravel bag in Co Cork<\/strong> texted his girlfriend weeks after the discovery was made, denying any involvement whilst stating: \u201cThey\u2019re trying to put me in the mix.\u201d<\/p>\n

Garda\u00ed found the remains of Kieran Quilligan (47) in a jute bag in a ravine at Whitewell, Rostellan, Co Cork on January 29th, 2024. He had been missing for five months.<\/p>\n

Niall Long (33) and Luke Taylor (27) are on trial at a sitting of the Central Criminal Court in Cork, charged with his murder.<\/p>\n

Prosecution senior counsel, Donal O\u2019Sullivan, in his outline to the jury alleged that Kieran Quilligan and another man assaulted Niall Long on September 1st, 2023.<\/p>\n

It is the case of the State that this was \u201can instigating factor\u201d for what occurred afterwards.<\/p>\n

The trial has now heard evidence from Det Garda Anne O\u2019Sullivan. Det Garda O\u2019Sullivan said that in March of 2024 one of the accused, Lu\u0137e Taylor, sent a text to his girlfriend saying that this man (Quilligan) \u201cwas killed in an unknown place unknown time.\u201d<\/p>\n

He further stated: \u201cI\u2019m not the person that was robbed. I had nothing to do with that.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the text exchange Luke Taylor insisted that his only involvement was that he bought drugs off Niall Long.\u201cNiall is a drug dealer, I buy drugs off Niall. What goes on between the two of them. \u2026I had nothing to do with any of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The jury also heard evidence from Rhona Campbell of the Garda Siochana Analysis Service. She gave a summary of extensive CCTV evidence in the case.<\/p>\n

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\"Donegal<\/p>\n

Ireland<\/p>\n

Donegal man (70s) to stand trial charged with 28 indecent assault charges<\/p>\n

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The case continues on Tuesday in front of Ms Justice Siobhan Lankford and the jury of ten men and two women. The Prosecution case has now closed.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Kieran Quilligan was living with his partner in Simon Community housing in Cork city when he was last seen on September 1st, 2023. He was a native of Togher in Cork city.<\/p>\n

The charge facing both accused is that the murder was carried out on a date unknown between September 1st, 2023, and January 29th, 2024, at an unknown location within the state of the District Court area of Cork city.<\/p>\n

Niall Long previously of St Michael\u2019s Close in Mahon in Cork and and Luke Taylor formerly of Cherry Lawn in Blackrock in the city both deny murdering Mr Quilligan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the men on trial for the murder of a man whose skeletal remains were found in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-135958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135958","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=135958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}