Man pleads guilty to assaulting two QIH directors
Updated / Thursday, 11 Mar 2021
20:17
North-East Correspondent
A medal-winning Fermanagh boxer has pleaded guilty to assaulting two senior businessmen at a local filling station two years ago.
James Bernard McGovern, 24, appeared before Judge John Aylmer at Cavan Circuit Court today.
McGovern was charged with attacking Kevin Lunney and Dara O'Reilly, causing them harm, at the Apple Green Service Station café at Rakeelan near Ballyconnell, Co Cavan, on 1 February 2019.
Mr Lunney is the chief operating officer at Mannok, formely Quinn Industrial Holdings, which has manufacturing operations on both sides of the border.
Mr O'Reilly is chief financial officer at the same enterprise.