10/08/2007

Two People Charged With Ballymun Murder

Two people have been charged with murder, in connection with the fatal stabbing of a man in Dublin last year.

James Donaghue, 26, died after a row outside his grandmother’s home in Ballymun where he was attending a birthday party.

Brian Joyce, of Carton Road, Poppentree in Ballymun, and a 17-year-old youth who cannot be identified, were both charged with murder at the Children’s Court on Friday.

They were also charged with engaging in a violent order and the production of a knife, and were remanded in custody to St Patrick’s Institution by Judge Fitzpatrick.

(SB)

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