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.