Mr Phelan is a senior counsel and an associate professor of law at Trinity College, where he lectures undergraduate and postgraduate students. His disciplines are in European Union law and competition law.The 53-year-old has been a member of the bar since 1994 and was called to the inner bar in 2008.
The detective said one of Mr Phelan’s employees told gardaí that the accused then fired three shots from a licensed revolver and the final shot was allegedly “fired directly” at Mr Conlon and hit him in the back of the head as he turned to run away. The court heard the senior lawyer told gardaí in interviews that he accepted he shot Mr Conlon with the licensed firearm but believed he was under threat and was “terrified” at the time.
Defence counsel Michael O’Higgins SC told the court that “the tenor” of his client’s statement to gardaí was that the shooting was an accident, where he had crossed the gun over from left to right in an arc and was left “stunned” by Mr Conlon’s injury.What are the objections to his bail? It was alleged that the accused has had previous disputes in relation to land and trespass matters and “that a similar type of offending could occur”.Mr Phelan’s lawyers argued that he will be “completely and utterly ruined” and his “life’s work wiped out” if he is not granted bail between now and his trial date, which they said could be up to three years away.
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