Barry Whelan (46), originally from Dublin, who died following an altercation in Boston on St Patrick's Day, 2023A Dublin man shouted racial epithets before he was struck, fell and died from a head injury on St Patrick’s Day, a US jury heard. Mr Sadiq’s defence attorney Michael Chinman told jurors that Mr Whelan called the defendant “lazy” and a “f***ing N-word”. He told jurors that Mr Sadiq used the side of his wrist and that the strike did not cause injury – “not even a bruise”. Mr Sadiq intended to strike Mr Whelan and “in doing so he endangered Mr Whelan’s life,” Ms Bannister told the court. “These intentional actions of Mr Sadiq are what we are here for,” she said.

Source: The Irish Times January 14, 2026 01:47 UTC