A man and his stepson have been sentenced for their roles in the murder of a member of a rival motorcycle club in Limerick two years ago.
The dispute involved clubs based in Tipp and Limerick.
Alan McNamara from Mountfune in Murroe shot Andrew O’Donoghue in June 2015, and his stepson Robert Cusack hid the gun afterwards.
During the summer of 2015, tensions were escalating between the Road Tramps and the Caballeros motorcycle clubs.
The Road Tramps operated in East Limerick and the Tipperary based Caballeros had started to move into their territory.
On June 19th that year, Alan McNamara’s club patches were ripped off him outside a pub in the village of Doon by three members of the Road Tramps.
The three – all with addresses in West Tipperary – avoided jail for that incident after raising 6,000 Euro for charity.
McNamara went up to their clubhouse in Murroe the following day and shot Andrew O’Donoghue in the head with a sawn off shotgun.
He was handed the mandatory life sentence for murder today.
His stepson Robert Cusack was jailed for four and a half years for hiding the weapon in a wooded area behind his home.
In a Victim Impact Statement read out today, Andrew O’Donoghue’s brothers said the emotional and psychological trauma felt by the family following his death is unexplainable.
