{"id":142974,"date":"2025-10-24T15:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T15:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/142974\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T15:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T15:18:10","slug":"luke-taylor-28-found-guilty-by-jury-in-kieran-quilligan-murder-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/142974\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Taylor (28) found guilty by jury in Kieran Quilligan murder trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Luke Taylor (28) has been found guilty of murdering Kieran Quilligan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The jury returned this unanimous verdict at 12.30 today in the trial at the Central Criminal Court, sitting in Cork.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It followed five hours and 45 minutes of deliberating which commenced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Sentencing was adjourned until October 29 when the mandatory life sentence will be imposed on Luke Taylor and on Niall Long, who was found guilty of the same murder yesterday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">There will be an opportunity for family of Kieran Quilligan to present victim impact evidence on Wednesday next.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Luke Taylor, formerly of Cherry Lawn, Blackrock, Cork, and 33-year-old Niall Long, formerly of St. Michael\u2019s Close, Mahon, Cork, now both stand convicted of the same charge of murder.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The murder count which each man denied, was that between September 1 2023 and January 29 2024 at an unknown location within the state in the District Court area of Cork city they did murder Kieran Quilligan, 47, contrary to Common Law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luke Taylor (28) has been found guilty of murdering Kieran Quilligan. The jury returned this unanimous verdict at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,2013,27,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-142974","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-cork-court","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":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115429815376116365","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142974","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=142974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}