The jury in the trial of barrister and farmer Diarmuid Phelan, who is accused of murder, has heard an emergency call in which a man said a farmer shot his friend at point blank range.
Some members of the family of 35-year-old Keith Conlon left the courtroom in tears as 999 calls were played to the jury.
Mr Phelan, who is 56, denies murdering Mr Conlon at his farm in Tallaght on 22 February 2022.
He claims he fired his gun in self defence and Mr Conlon was killed accidentally.
The prosecution says Mr Phelan intended to kill or cause serious injury.
Three emergency calls were played to the jury in the trial. The first was a call made by Mr Phelan to gardaí. This call began just after 1.05pm and lasted almost three minutes.
In the call, Mr Phelan says they are sheep farmers. He says there are intruders on the farm and he needs gardaí quickly.
He tells the call taker they did not know the intruders were there. He says there was a loose dog, that they shot the dog, and the intruders are very agitated.
He says the intruders were hiding in the woods and were roaring and shouting. He tells the call taker "we have a violent situation".
On the call, Mr Phelan can be heard saying "they're coming out here now". He tells the call taker that they are "not able to deal with these guys".
He can also be heard shouting that the guards are coming and "you can talk to them".
He can be heard shouting at the men to "keep your distance" and to "go back down".
The second 999 call takes place less than a minute after the first one ends and is made by a worker on the farm called Hannah Felgner, who is looking for an ambulance.
She tells the call taker that "they were approaching and the farmer told them to get back but they didn't so he just shot someone".
She also says she lives with him and she did not know he would do that.
The jury heard Ms Felgner put the man who had been shot on the phone to establish his age.
He says he is 35 and tells the call taker "I got shot at".
During the call, which lasts more than nine minutes, the call taker can be heard giving Ms Felgner advice on how to administer first aid.
She can be heard shouting at the man who has been shot to stay awake and asking another worker what they are going to do.
When gardaí arrive, they tell the emergency services that the man who has been shot looks like he is having a fit but is conscious and breathing.
The third 999 call was made at 1.12pm by a friend of the dead man.
In the call, the man who identifies himself as Robert says a farmer has shot his friend.
He tells the call taker he is "after shooting my friend, point blank range" and that his friend is "on the deck in the middle of the field."
In cross examination, Detective Garda Gary White said there was less than a minute between the end of the call made by Mr Phelan where no gunshot can be heard, and the beginning of the call by the farm worker seeking an ambulance.
He agreed that the call made by Mr Phelan was the only call made to the emergency services before the shooting.
The court heard gardaí arrived on the scene nine minutes after the end of the call made by Mr Phelan.
Young farm worker's evidence
This afternoon the trial heard evidence from the young farm worker who called the ambulance.
Hannah Felgner from Germany was 19 years old and arrived at Hazelgrove farm two days before the shooting. She had never been abroad before.
She explained that she was on a gap year and signed up to be a "wwoofer" (World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms) - which is a scheme under which people can apply to work on organic farms all over Europe, in exchange for accommodation and meals.
On the morning of 22 February 2022, she said she had seen Mr Phelan walking away from the farmhouse with a long gun over his shoulder.
She agreed that another worker may have told Mr Phelan that she had seen a deer.
Later on she said the workers and Mr Phelan were clearing some steps in a field. She said there was a dog barking in the distance.
She said the mood was relaxed and they kept on working.
Ms Felgner said Mr Phelan and a French man named Julien suddenly went into the bushes.
She said Mr Phelan had the gun over his shoulder.
'Screaming and yelling'
She said she suddenly heard a loud noise that was definitely a gunshot and after that there were loud voices, screaming and yelling.
Ms Felgner said she then saw Mr Phelan and Julien walking back towards the workers.
After that she said two men came out of the bushes quickly.
They were "screaming and yelling", she said they were very upset and were saying "we're going to call the police" and "we're going to get you charged for that" and "why would you do that".
The jury has already heard that Mr Phelan shot the men's dog.
Ms Felgner said she did not feel personally threatened or in danger.
She said Mr Phelan kept repeating to the men to keep their distance. She said he spoke calmly but the men kept walking towards him.
She said it was a verbal conflict. She was not threatened, and they were yelling at Mr Phelan and not at her.
She said later in her evidence that the men did not seem any danger to any of the people - that it was a verbal conflict. She said the two men did not have any guns or weapons.
Ms Felger told prosecuting counsel, Roisin Lacey that they kept walking towards Mr Phelan, and when they were about two metres away, he pulled a small gun "out of nowhere" and shot it in the air screaming very loudly "keep your distance".
She said he had spoken calmly before this but there was "this sudden change of tone where he screamed very aggressively and very loudly".
'Incredibly surreal' feeling - witness
Ms Felgner said when the shot was fired in the air the men immediately turned around and started running away.
She said it all happened in a matter of seconds - and a few seconds after that, Mr Phelan shot one of the guys in the back and he immediately fell to the ground face first, while the other man kept on running.
She described feeling that it was "incredibly surreal".
She explained that she thought the gun was not real and was a gun that just made a noise to threaten someone.
When she saw the guy falling, she said she thought he must be faking.
Ms Felgner said Mr Phelan left the scene while the others lay on the ground as they were expecting more shots.
She then got up and went into the hole where the man who had been shot had fallen.
She said he had turned over, and was holding his phone up to them, which she assumed was him pleading with them to call an ambulance.
She said she called the ambulance and told the court she doubted she would ever find sufficient words to describe the terror she was feeling.
She said there was a lot of fear, and it was not an everyday situation.
As the 999 call which was played to the jury earlier was played to her, Ms Felgner began to cry.
She told the court Mr Phelan came back shortly after gardaí arrived, with a first aid kit and he knelt down next to the shot man and put a white powder on the wound.
Shot fired 'completely out of nowhere'
Under cross-examination, Ms Felgner agreed that she had told the emergency call taker that the man had been shot in the chest, when he had in fact been shot in the head.
She said she was traumatised and overwhelmed at the time and must not have seen the blood coming out of the man's head.
She agreed the men were walking determinedly towards Mr Phelan, but she said the shot fired by him was completely out of nowhere and was unexpected and unpredictable.
She said she had seen the shot man fall forward as he was in the process of running away.
Put to her that the man could have been turning and falling at the same time, she said she was not 100% sure but falling forwards was what she saw.
She agreed that the men could have turned away after two shots were fired in the air, not one as she had first told the court.
Ms Felgner was cross-examined at length about whether the men were running away when the third, fatal shot was fired.
She agreed that she had told gardaí that the men "turned away to walk away" in her statement given on the day of the shooting.
She said she made her statement in a language that was not her first language, and that she may not have chosen the right words especially after a profoundly disturbing event.
She also agreed that she had not mentioned in the 999 call that the men were walking away or running away before the fatal shot.
However, asked by defence counsel Sean Guerin to agree that what was happening was that at most Mr Conlon had started to turn before the third shot, she said she disagreed.
The trial will continue on Monday.
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