Three quilty of brutal attack during house repossession

Men convicted of assault & false imprisonment at farm

- DECLAN BRENNAN , EIMEAR DODD 

THREE men were convicted yesterday of charges related to violence that broke out as a farm was being repossessed. 

The 50-day trial at Dublin Circuit Court heard a convoy of around 30 to 40 men arrived at the property near Strokestown, Co Roscommon, in the early hours of December 16, 2018.

They were armed with sticks with nails in, pickaxe handles, a meat cleaver, baseball bats and a hurley.

Four security men were beaten and had their shoes removed and their hands bound.

The windows and doors of the house were smashed, the men’s vans were set on fire and a German Shepherd dog was beaten so badly it had to be put down.