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A HOUSEMATE of the Howard brothers told the trial that she would not recognise a man she saw talking to Robert outside their house on Sep- tember 26, 2006.
Claire Cahir told the trial last Wednesday that she was living at Ballaghboy, Ennis, on September 26, 2006, with her partner and the Howard brothers, Robert and Niall.
She said that she arrived home shortly after 10.30pm and drove in
the drive.
Asked by Stephen Coughlan, BL, for the Prosecution, did she notice anything, she replied, “There was a gentleman sitting at the door area. He was talking to Robert. Robert was sitting with him.”
She said the gentleman “had his legs out and I said, “God, I nearly drove over your toes’ and I walked into the house.”
Some 10 minutes later, she said Robert went into the house and asked Niall for a cigarette. “He stayed about
a minute. He just went back outside,” she said.
“TI didn’t see anything when I went into the house,” said Ms Cahir.
“I didn’t take much notice. He didn’t look Irish. He had quite sallow skin. That was it,’ she said.
Asked by Mr Coughlan would she recognise the man again, she said, aa fo es