Man (50s) in court accused of assaulting and attempting to suffocate his partner’s mum in nursing home

Peter Keaney (55) leaving Athlone District Court this evening after being granted bail.

Liam Cosgrove

A father of two charged with attempting to suffocate his partner’s elderly mother in a midlands nursing home has been granted bail after a court heard how he allegedly stood over her, shouting: “Die bitch, die, die, you f****** bitch.”

Fifty-five-year-old Peter Keaney, of 7 Hillside Close, Monksland, Athlone, Roscommon was admitted to bail after being sent forward to Mullingar Circuit Court on a signed guilty plea of assault causing harm to the elderly woman and of attempting to suffocate her with a pillow.