Shane was 30 seconds from home, says his childhood sweetheart
Evening Herald
Shane Geoghegan (inset) was shot dead in Limerick in a case of mistaken identity.
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Wednesday November 19 2008
The heartbroken fiancee of innocent gangland victim Shane Geoghegan says "it's going to be really tough without him".
Jenna Barry met the Limerick rugby captain when she was just 14 and the couple were due to marry.
Shane was only 30 seconds from the home they shared in Limerick when he was callously gunned down in a case of mistaken identity by three criminals aligned to the McCarthy-Dundon crime gang.
"I look out my front door and I know he was there, only 30 seconds away," said Jenna in an emotional appeal for his killers to be brought to justice.
"One of the bad things was actually that on the day that he got buried, he would have always been there to support me and he wasn't so it's going to be really tough without him.
"He's not going to be there to enjoy the good times with me, he's not going to be there to pick me up when the bad times are here.
"This is a time when if it had have been anyone else he would have been there [for them]."
She recalled the first time she met Shane. "It was just before my 14th birthday; great guy, loving, caring, listened all the time, listened a bit too much maybe."
Jenna joined Shane's mother, Mary, on RTE's CrimeCall to appeal to anyone who knows anything about the murder to come forward. "I appeal to any one who knows anything at all to come forward and help us out", she pleaded.
A reconstruction of the murder showed viewers how the 28 year old was at home with a friend on Saturday November 9 watching rugby.
He then went to a friend's house in the Kilteragh estate at around midnight. When Shane left to return to his own home, just 80 yards away, shots were fired at him from a blue people carrier.
- Clodagh Sheehy
