{"id":174841,"date":"2025-11-11T11:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T11:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/174841\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T11:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T11:22:08","slug":"horse-trainer-who-threatened-to-kill-neighbour-on-facebook-video-is-fined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/174841\/","title":{"rendered":"Horse-trainer who threatened to kill neighbour on Facebook video is fined"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Co Donegal man who made a threat to kill a neighbour on a live video posted on Facebook has been fined after appearing in court.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Horse-trainer Matthew Boyle appeared at Letterkenny District Court charged with making the threats to Paul Gibson.<\/p>\n

The court was told that Boyle, aged 33, of Parkview in Raphoe, posted the video following a dispute between the pair.<\/p>\n

He is charged that he did without lawful excuse, make to Paul Gibson a threat, intending the said Paul Gibson to believe it would be carried out, to kill or cause him serious harm.<\/p>\n

The charge is Contrary to Section 5 of the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act, 1997.<\/p>\n

Garda Sergeant Jim Collins said that it was \u201chighly unlikely\u201d that anybody would take the threats as \u201cviable\u201d and said the accused had some \u201cintellectual difficulties.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sergeant Collins said the threatening video had remained online for over an hour before Gardai contacted the accused.<\/p>\n

Solicitor for the accused, Mr Donough Cleary, said his client had pleaded to the charge and that a probation report on Boyle had been concise and helpful.<\/p>\n

He indicated that Boyle suffered from a mild learning difficulty.<\/p>\n

He added that his client expressed remorse for what he did and described his own actions as \u201cdisgraceful\u201d but said he acknowledged the video would have been disturbing.<\/p>\n

Mr Cleary said there was no animosity between the neighbours now and it has been three years since the video was posted in October, 2022.<\/p>\n

He added that the probation report had placed Boyle as being at a low risk of reoffending.
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Sergeant Collins said that while it was accepted that a threat was made, he did not think it was a viable threat and does not think it would have been followed up on.<\/p>\n

Judge Emile Daly said the difficulty when posting material online, especially a video, is that it can give rise to bad behaviour from others who may view the video.<\/p>\n

She addressed Boyle and told him this type of behaviour cannot happen again, adding that she noted it hasn\u2019t since and that is a good thing.<\/p>\n

Again stressing to the accused that this was a serious matter, she fined Boyle \u20ac280.<\/p>\n

Horse-trainer who threatened to kill neighbour on Facebook video is fined was last modified: November 11th, 2025 by Staff Writer<\/p>\n

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