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Aran Islander Ciaran Conneely who was murdered in Boston in 2011 was shot dead by a 16-year-old in a botched robbery attempt, prosecutors say, and left to die just a few steps from the sanctity of his Dorchester home, a trial in Boston heard last week.

Jury selection began this week for the upcoming trial of the Boston teenager accused of murdering Aran Islander Ciaran Conneely on October 10, 2011.

Hurling is said to be older than the recorded history of Ireland and to predate Christianity. In Seamus King’s remarkable book The History of Hurling, there is a reference from Irish verbal history of hurling being played as far back as 1,200BC in Tara, County Meath. The earliest written references to the sport in Brehon law are from the fifth century.

A Boston teenager was arraigned Monday in a US Superior courtroom for last October’s murder of Inis Meain man Ciaran Conneely and a subsequent double-shooting near St. Mark’s that left one man with multiple gunshot wounds.

Deirdre Nikoras sat in the front row of the downtown courtroom, craning her neck to see the face of the teenager who police say killed her brother.