Thomas Dooley suffered eight blows to the head with a baseball bat in 2014 APXThree men have been sentenced to life in prison after breaking into a 64-year-old man’s home and beating him to death with a baseball bat. Thomas “Toddy” Dooley was murdered in Edenderry in February 2014. His killers were sentenced at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin yesterday. At the hearing, Mr Dooley’s family described their horror at the brutality of his death. Mr Dooley’s four sisters, Catherine Darby, Cora McAuley, Ann Fennessy and Rose Murphy; his niece, Denise Murphy; and his nephews, John and William Murphy, said that they were “horrified and shocked at the cruel and heartless way he…

Source: The Times October 10, 2016 23:03 UTC