The 20-year-old student was fatally stabbed in Cork city on 16 January 2020.
Noel Barry, of Cherry Tree Road, Togher, Cork, appeared before Cork Circuit Criminal Court where he pleaded guilty to three charges.
He pleaded guilty to a charge that he did, at a place unknown on 4 September 2020, in the course of a phone call threaten Noel Blair that he would cause serious harm to a named member of the Blair family.
He also pleaded guilty to a second charge of threatening to kill or cause serious harm to another named member of the Blair family, both charges contrary to Section 5 of the Non Fatal Offences against the Person Act 1997.
An amateur boxer from Northern Ireland has admitted assaulting two senior Quinn Industrial Holdings (QIH) executives just days after his father lost his job in the company.
Fermanagh man Bernard McGovern (24) appeared in court yesterday morning where he pleaded guilty to the assaults outside a Cavan filling station in February 2019.
The victims of the attack were Kevin Lunney, chief operating officer of the company formerly known as QIH, and chief financial officer Dara O Reilly.
Mr Lunney was abducted outside his home and badly assaulted in a separate and unrelated incident seven months later, in which McGovern had no involvement.
The two victims are senior executives at Mannok, previously known as Quinn Industrial Holdings (QIH) and once owned by businessman Sean Quinn.
An amateur boxer has admitted assaulting two senior Quinn Industrial Holdings (QIH) executives just days after his father lost his job in the company.
Fermanagh man Bernard McGovern (24) appeared in court this morning where he pleaded guilty to the assaults outside a Cavan filling station in February 2019.
The victims of the attack were Kevin Lunney, chief operating officer of the company formerly known as QIH, and chief financial officer Dara O’Reilly.
Mr Lunney was abducted outside his home and badly assaulted in a separate and unrelated incident seven months later, in which McGovern had no involvement.
The two victims are senior executives at Mannok, previously known as Quinn Industrial Holdings (QIH) and once owned by businessman Sean Quinn.
These charges are contrary to Section 3 of the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act, 1997.
He is also charged with two counts of threats to kill or cause serious harm to the man in Co Longford on February 9 and February 16 this year.
These charges are contrary to Section 5 of the Non-Fatal Offences against the Person Act 1997.
He was remanded in custody to appear at the same court via video-link on March 4 next. Read More
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