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Irish Daily Mirror
7 days ago
- Sport
- Irish Daily Mirror
Aidan O'Shea celebrates poignant victory for club as they remember ex-teammate
Aidan O'Shea celebrated a poignant victory for his club in the Connacht Senior Football League over the weekend. O'Shea was the heartbeat of a Breaffy side that beat Crossmolina 2-23 to 2-22 in the Division One final on Saturday. But the victory was all the more special for O'Shea and his teammates as they lifted the David Gavin Memorial Cup - a trophy named after their former club player who passed away tragically in 2017. O'Shea said: "It was a pretty mad game. It was a bit helter-skelter, more than we would have liked, I think. "We would have liked it a bit more controlled, but we are delighted to get over the line. "Crossmolina are a great side, intermediate All-Ireland champions and then throw in all of the young lads coming through, and they are going to be a really good team for a couple of years. "I'm just delighted for the group. We haven't won a Division One for a while, and it's all the sweeter when it's a cup named after our own clubman, David Gavin. "To be up there lifting the trophy is a really nice moment, and one that is well overdue." Gavin died after he got into difficulty while swimming in Kinbasket Lake Reservoir in British Columbia, Canada, and it was close to a year before his remains were finally recovered. His good friend O'Shea turned 35 this summer after playing his 17th consecutive season for Mayo, a season that ultimately ended in an gut-wrenching exit in the group stages of the All-Ireland Championship. The Breaffy man is the appearances record holder for Mayo in the League and Championship - and seems set to line out for his county again next season.
The 42
09-07-2025
- Sport
- The 42
Former Mayo manager Stephen Rochford to coach Tullamore senior footballers
FORMER MAYO MANAGER Stephen Rochford has been appointed as coach of the Tullamore senior football team. The Offaly Express reported that Rochford was ratified at a Tullamore GAA committee meeting on Tuesday evening, and the appointment has since been confirmed to The 42. Advertisement The highly-experienced Crossmolina man will work under manager Paul McConway and alongside coaches Niall Smith and Kevin O'Brien. Rochford has most recently been involved in Kevin McStay's Mayo management team. The assistant manager and coach took charge this summer when McStay stepped back due to health issues. They were 'relieved of their duties' — as Mayo GAA put it in a controversial statement they later apologised for — after their All-Ireland SFC group stage exit last month. As a player, Rochford won an All-Ireland club senior football medal with Crossmolina in 2001. He managed Galway's Corofin to All-Ireland success in 2015, before serving as Mayo senior manager from 2016 to 2018. Rochford led the Green and Red to the '16 and '17 All-Ireland finals, where they lost to Dublin by the minimum. Former Tullamore player McConway has been in charge this season following the departure of Niall Stack. Stack guided the team to three Offaly senior championship titles in four years (2021, 2023 and 2024), as well as their first Leinster club win since 1977 last season. Tullamore are now looking to repeat their Offaly three in a row feat of 1924-1926. *****
BreakingNews.ie
16-05-2025
- BreakingNews.ie
Man (39) found guilty of murdering his mother
A jury has convicted a 39-year-old man of murder, rejecting his claim that he was provoked and defending himself from an attack by his ailing 58-year-old mother, whom he strangled and smothered to death in her own home. Nigel Canavan claimed that stab wounds to each of Angela Canavan's thighs, one of which tracked to 13.5cm in depth, were self-inflicted by his mother. Advertisement He claimed that he had acted in self-defence when his mother, who had a brain injury from a fall four years before her death, attacked him by swinging her open hands at him and trying to kick him. Taking the stand at his Central Criminal Court trial, Canavan further accused his mother of deliberately provoking him by calling him the worst son in the world and saying she wished she had never had him during a heated argument. The jury of 10 women and two men spent over five hours considering their verdict before rejecting Canavan's self-defence claim. They also rejected the suggestion that his mother's alleged insults so provoked him that he could be found guilty of manslaughter rather than murder. A pathologist found that besides being strangled and smothered, Ms Canavan had suffered a laceration to the top of her head, bruises to her face, body, arms and legs and three broken ribs. Advertisement Some injuries indicated she tried to defend herself from an attack, and bruises to her chest suggested she had been manhandled before her death. Canavan, with an address at Erris Gardens, Crossmolina, Co Mayo, had pleaded not guilty to his mother's murder at her home in St John's Terrace, Co Sligo on May 1st, 2023. Mr Justice Kerida Naidoo will sentence Canavan to the mandatory term of life imprisonment at a sentencing hearing on June 3rd, when Ms Canavan's other son, Keith Canavan, will make a statement to the court.
Irish Times
15-05-2025
- Irish Times
Jury to continue deliberations in case of man accused of murdering his mother
A jury will return to the Central Criminal Court on Friday to continue their deliberations in the trial of a man who denies murdering his mother by strangling and smothering her to death. Nigel Canavan (39) told his trial he acted in self-defence and was provoked by his mother, Angela Canavan (58), who he said told him she wished she'd never had him while assaulting him during a heated argument. The jury has spent more than four hours over two days considering their verdict. Mr Canavan, with an address at Erris Gardens, Crossmolina, Co Mayo, has pleaded not guilty to his mother's murder at her home in St John's Terrace, Co Sligo on May 1st, 2023. Mr Justice Kerida Naidoo has told the jury of 10 women and two men there are three possible verdicts: guilty, not guilty, or not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter. READ MORE Mr Justice Naidoo said murder is made out if the prosecution has proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the accused killed his mother and intended to kill or cause serious harm. However, the jury should return a verdict of manslaughter if they find that Ms Canavan's actions towards her son were a 'genuinely serious provocation' that caused him to suffer a sudden and total loss of self-control. Mr Justice Naidoo said the jury must also consider whether Mr Canavan had acted in self-defence. In his testimony to the trial, Mr Canavan said his mother waved a knife at him and tried to attack him with her hands and feet. State Pathologist Dr SallyAnne Collis detailed bruises to Ms Canavan's face, neck, torso, arms and legs. She also noted a laceration due to blunt force trauma on her head and one of her forearms. She had three fractured ribs and stab wounds to each thigh. Dr Collis said the cause of death was asphyxiation due to smothering and strangling, and that death would have taken minutes. Mr Canavan said that his mother stabbed herself in the thighs with a steak knife and suggested the fractured ribs could have been caused by a fall his mother had earlier in the week of her death. He described using his forearm against his mother's neck to push her away and said that she died in his presence.
BreakingNews.ie
07-05-2025
- BreakingNews.ie
Court hears man accused of murdering his mother seemed nervous and evasive at scene
A man accused of murdering his mother seemed nervous and evasive when he spoke to gardai shortly after her death, the Central Criminal Court has heard. Det Gda James Conneely told the trial of Nigel Canavan (39), who denies murdering his mother Angela Canavan, that he met the accused outside his mother's home on the night of her death. Mr Canavan had phoned emergency services about one hour and 15 minutes earlier. Advertisement The detective said he found Mr Canavan to be "nervous" and "evasive with the questions". When gardai asked Mr Canavan to come to Sligo Garda Station to make a voluntary statement, Det Gda Conneely said the accused was eager to cooperate and did not want legal advice. Det Gda Conneely agreed with defence counsel Desmond Dockery SC that Mr Canavan had been "distraught, upset and tearful" at the scene and it was "a little surprising" that he agreed to be interviewed so soon after his mother's death. In the subsequent voluntary interview, a recording of which was played to the jury, Mr Canavan said he was upstairs in his mother's house when he heard three loud bangs from downstairs. When he went to investigate, he found the room "in a mess" with a broken chair and "glass everywhere". His mother was lying on her back on the ground. Advertisement Mr Canavan, with an address at Erris Gardens, Crossmolina, Co Mayo, has pleaded not guilty to his mother's murder at her home in St John's Terrace, Co Sligo on May 1st 2023. It is the prosecution's case that "fatal violence" was used on Ms Canavan and that she died from manual strangulation. In the voluntary interview, Mr Canavan said he had recently separated from his wife and stayed with his father for a short time. On the May bank holiday weekend, he was staying with his mother. On the Monday, he had been at work in a hotel in Knock where he was a financial controller. Advertisement He arrived at his mother's house that evening with takeaway food, but he immediately knew that she was drunk. She became "really agitated" and wanted to argue, he said. He said he put on a Netflix show she wanted to watch and tried to be "hospitable". "I didn't want to argue," he said. However, he said she became "more and more agitated", and when she took out her walking stick, he went upstairs. He was about halfway up the stairs when, he said, he heard a bang and thought: "What in the name of duck [sic] is she after doing?" He carried on upstairs but heard a second bang and thought his mother was trying to "antagonise" him. He was in bed when he heard a third bang. He said: "I thought, what the hell is after going on?" Advertisement He said his mother used to "self-inflict things", had a "really bad temper" and was "prone to picking up stuff and smashing things". When he went downstairs, he found the place "in a mess" with broken glass on the floor and his mother lying on her back. He "knew something was wrong", he said, and wondered if his mother had a stroke. He said: "I was like, what's after happening here? Imagine you are coming downstairs, your mum is on the floor, what the duck [sic], like?" He said he checked his mother's vital signs and phoned emergency services. Advertisement Det Sgt Gerry Mullaney on Wednesdayay told prosecution counsel Conor Devally SC that six days later, gardaí arrested Mr Canavan on suspicion of murder and brought him to Sligo Garda Station for questioning. Det Gda Brian McMahon told Mr Devally that at the start of the first interview, Mr Canavan said he was "not guilty" and detailed his background. He spoke of his mother's career as a psychologist and addiction counsellor while she herself dealing with addictions to alcohol and cigarettes. Ireland Trial hears woman faked her own death as she could... Read More He detailed incidents where he said she had self-harmed and threatened to kill herself, prompting her to spend time in various psychiatric hospitals over many years. He said she had always struggled with alcohol and when drinking she could be "illogical and violent". Following a fall down the stairs in 2019, she lost much of her mobility and strength and required carers to visit daily to carry out small chores for her. The evidence continues on Thursday before Mr Justice Kerida Naidoo and a jury of ten women and two men.
