A man has denied at the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court threatening to kill his neighbours and firing a shotgun into their house.
The court heard there had been hostility between the two families for a while, which began over the location of rubbish bins outside their homes.
Mr Michael Devoy (31), Balbutcher Drive, Poppintree, Ballymun, Dublin, has pleaded not guilty to threatening to kill Mr David Cray and Mr John Cray on May 6th, 2002homes.>discharging a shotgun in the early hours of June 6th, 2002, at the same location.
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He was standing at his front door with other members of his family when Garda P.J. Walsh arrived at the house. Mr Michael Devoy >David Cray, who was at an upstairs window.
Mr Devoy shouted up at David that he would "blow his head off and his old fellow as well". Mr Cray snr said he took the threat seriously.
Mr Cray snr said on June 6th he was in bed when he heard a dog barking. He then heard a noise which he later realised was a shotgun being put through the glass beside the front door.
He go out of bed and went to the landing when he heard the noise of a shotgun. He went into his daughter's bedroom as it was at the front of the house and looked out the window. He saw Mr Devoy wearing a blonde,>Mr Cray snr said downstairs there were tiles knocked off the wall, sockets blown out and pellets in the furniture.
Baker> Devoy>Cray>it back but when he did, Mr Michael Devoy's mother began shouting abuse at him.
Devoy>' house and they were "thrown back" and the hostility went from there.
He said the exchange of "verbals" was only between the women of the two >had ever heard any of his sons shout abuse at them.
Witness said he knew Mr Devoy, in spite of the wig, but did not see a gun or any weapon in his hand.
>Mr David Cray told Mr Henegan he was asked by his father to return home as "the troubles" had started again. When he got there he went upstairs with his mother to his bedroom to have a better look at what was happening. He heard Mr Devoy threatening to shoot him and he took it seriously as he knew his neighbour would "certainly try to carry it out".
Mr Cray Jnr agreed with Mr Finlay that the arguing was between the women of the two families but said Mr Devoy had shouted at him as he was trying to "stick up for his mother" and claimed the accused blamed him for an incident in which his mother was attacked.
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