Father-of-seven Thomas Dooley was killed in Rath Cemetery in Tralee in 2022
Thomas Dooley snr and his wife, Siobhán told the jury: 'I knew that they were going to do harm when I saw the weapons'A jury at the Central Criminal Court has begun its deliberations in the case of six men accused of the murder of a father of seven during a funeral in Co Kerry two years ago.
Her husband’s brother-in-law Thomas snr was carrying two weapons as he approached her husband. “One was shiny and looked to be new, the other had a bit of rust on it – one had a round top, the other was a big chunk of a yoke – I had never seen weapons like them before,” Ms Dooley said. She said Thomas jnr was standing behind one of her sons and was about to swing a weapon at him, but she pushed her son out of the way and he ended up hitting her and cutting her under the arm.
“I was trying to keep my daughter back, to stop her from being hurted, they were hitting him with everything, the weapons, there was blood squirting everywhere and I heard one of them say ‘Take her out too, get rid of her’ .”
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