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A JURY took just 44 minutes to convict a man of sending a pig’s head through the post to the Kilkee home of Garda Paul Heaslip in 2012, at Wednesday’s sitting of Ennis Circuit Court. The trial of Brendan Mahoney, a 48-year-old Dublin man with an address at Cabra Park, Dublin 7, who has spent time living in Clare, began last week. The court heard from both Garda Heaslip and his then fiancée, now wife Natalie, who spoke about their disgust when the box containing the pig’s head, which was said to have had a “very pungent odour”, was opened on the afternoon of January 31, 2012. Mahoney has been in custody since January, having been arrested in Spain after taking up work abroad while on bail. During the course of the trial, which began last week, the jury were shown CCTV footage of a man in Prussia Street Post Office in Dublin. Garda Sergeant Ronan O’Hara said that following …
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