{"id":142749,"date":"2025-10-24T12:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T12:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/142749\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T12:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T12:52:08","slug":"second-man-guilty-of-murder-of-kieran-quilligan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/142749\/","title":{"rendered":"Second man guilty of murder of Kieran Quilligan"},"content":{"rendered":"

A second man has been found guilty of the murder of a 47-year-old man whose remains were found in a jute bag in a ravine in Whitewell, Rostellan in Cork last year.<\/p>\n

Luke Taylor, aged 27, with an address at Cherry Lawn, Blackrock in Cork was found guilty by a jury this morning.<\/p>\n

His co accused, 33-year-old Niall Long, formerly of St Michael’s Close in Mahon in Cork, was yesterday also found guilty of the murder of Kieran Quilligan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mr Quilligan, 47, from Togher in Cork, was last seen alive on 1 September 2023.<\/p>\n

He was missing for five months when his remains were discovered on 29 January 2024, after garda\u00ed brought a cadaver dog to search an area of scrubland.<\/p>\n

The Central Criminal Court sitting in Cork heard that he had been beaten with a hammer like weapon. Mr Quilligan suffered multiple bone fractures. However, an exact cause of death could not be determined because of the decomposition of organ.<\/p>\n

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\nLuke Taylor was found guilty of Kieran Quilligan’s murder<\/p>\n

Both men now face mandatory life sentences and remanded in custody for sentencing on 29 October.<\/p>\n

In his closing speech to the jury, prosecution senior counsel, Donal O’Sullivan said that Mr Quilligan was “lured” to his death.<\/p>\n

He stated that Taylor brought him to a laneway at St Finbarr’s Place in Cork city on 1 September 2023 where he and Long “ambushed” him.<\/p>\n

Mr O’Sullivan said that the men then threw Mr Quilligan in to the boot of a car.<\/p>\n

He said that the “instigating factor” in relation to what occurred involved Mr Quilligan stealing drugs from Long earlier that day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A second man has been found guilty of the murder of a 47-year-old man whose remains were found…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109314,"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-142749","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\/115429241584997191","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142749","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=142749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}