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On the 25th January 2013 an armed robbery occurred at Lordship Credit Union, in the Cooley Peninsula in North County Louth, during which Detective Garda Adrian Donohue was shot dead. This was part of a pattern of such attacks in that area at that time and its widely accepted that the person who shot him was a member of whatever gang was active in those robberies during those months.
A long time later, and, we are informed by state authorities, after an exhaustative investigation, Aaron Brady, a young man from nearby in South Armagh and then in the USA, was accused and convicted of being part of this gang and of firing the fatal shot. He was sentenced to 40 years and is currently in prison in Ireland.
However no very convincing evidence of any of this was ever really put forward and instead he was convicted on the supposed basis that he had told two people in the New York area that he had killed a Garda. This very flimsy type of evidence is often seen in cases where a person is being framed for a crime (another similar case would be the late Catherine Nevin for example).
In any case it has developed into a vast saga of complicated facts, much of it gathered by Aaron Brady's father, and some of which was put before the courts in Aaron's appeal last year. For some completely unexplained reason, the result of his appeal has however been delayed a vast number of months, long after the court case has ended, but now we are told that the verdict will be in tomorrow, 11 July 2024 at 10am.
I urge all to follow this, I believe, miscarriage of justice closely because if they can frame a person in such a high profile case, and using such implausible evidence, then none of us are safe.
