A man has been found guilty of the murder of 47-year-old Kieran Quilligan, whose skeletal remains were found in a carrier bag in a County Cork ravine.<\/p>\n
Mr Quilligan was last seen alive on 1 September 2023. He had been missing for five months when his remains were found by garda\u00ed (Irish police).<\/p>\n
Niall Long, 33, of St Michael’s Close in the Mahon area of Cork city, was convicted at the Central Criminal Court sitting in Cork on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The jury will resume deliberations on his co-accused, 27-year-old Luke Taylor, previously of Cherry Lawn, Cork, on Friday. Mr Taylor denies murder. <\/p>\n
In his closing speech to the jury, prosecution senior counsel, Donal O’Sullivan, said Mr Quilligan was “lured” to his death.<\/p>\n
He added that but for the incredible investigative work by garda\u00ed (Irish police) the remains would never have been found.<\/p>\n
The court had earlier been told that an exact cause of death for Mr Quilligan could not be established because of the decomposition of the remains.<\/p>\n
However, a pathologist told the court that injuries, including fractures to the ribs, chest, neck and skull, were consistent with a “severe assault”. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been found guilty of the murder of 47-year-old Kieran Quilligan, whose skeletal remains were found…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141718,"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-141717","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":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115426504663763243","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141717","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=141717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}