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THERE was blood on the floor and walls of a room at Ennis leisure cen- tre in the immediate aftermath of an attack there, a court has heard.
A leisure centre employee told En- nis Circuit Court that she was work- ing at the poolside when she was alerted by a colleague to what was happening in the gym.
‘He said there was a fight going on
in the gym with knives. I grabbed my phone and went up,” she said.
She said she saw that a man was in- jured in the aerobics hall.
“T just saw blood. There was a good bit of blood. It was on the floor and on the walls,” she recalled.
She said that she rang gardai and attended to the victim.
Garda Saran Butler told the tri- al that he was using the gym that evening. At around 7.45pm a group
of men burst in the door.
“T could see Anthony McDonagh getting hit on the head with a wheel brace,” he said. He said that the ac- cused was holding what appeared to loLome SL E-DIU CONAN @ NDE ISe
“A lot of people in the gym started rushing for the door,’ he said. Asked by counsel for the state, Stephen Coughlan, BL, did the accused come into contact with the injured party, he replied, “Not from what I saw.”