O’Hagan, from Old Court Manor in Craigavon, faces a total of seven charges alleged to have been committed between 10-15 June last year
Following a defence application at Newry Crown Court last week, Judge Paul Ramsey KC relaxed the bail conditions for 34-year-old Sean O’Hagan to allow him to travel to Martinique to compete in the Strongman’s Champions League.
On a raft of charges all alleged to be aggravated by domestic abuse O’Hagan, from Old Court Manor in Craigavon, faces a total of seven charges alleged to have been committed between 10-15 June last year including harassment, dangerous driving, assault, robbery, domestic abuse and two counts of criminal damage.
The particulars of the offences accuse O’Hagan of damaging his ex-partner’s car, robbing her phone, engaging in a course of conduct which amounted to harassment and “engaging in a course of behaviour that was abusive of a person to whom he was personally connected at the time and the course of behaviour is such that a reasonable person would consider the course of behaviour to be likely to cause her to suffer physical or psychological harm.”
O’Hagan has denied each of the offences and is to go on trial for them next month.
In the meantime, fans of strongman O’Hagan can watch him on Amazon Prime TV as he competes against ten other men in the Strongman Champions League.
The competition in Fort-de-France on the rugged and beautiful Caribbean island of Martinique is the first of a dozen rounds of the SCL and could potentially see O’Hagan travel around the world to compete in Holland, Portugal, Serbia, Cyprus, England, Finland and South Africa before the final in November.
If he manages to top the league, O’Hagan stands to win $350,000.
Hailing from Loughgbrickland and standing at just under 7’ tall, O’Hagan is widely considered to be the tallest of the world’s active and competing strongmen.
O’Hagan’s first major success was becoming Ulster’s Strongman Man in 2014 when he was 24-years-old, making him the competition’s youngest winner and he followed that up by winning Ireland’s Strongest Man in 2015.
In 2016, O’Hagan began competing in an international strongman competition, finishing 31st in the Strongman world rankings. In 2017, he qualified for the Strongman Champions League World Finals in Mexico.
After 18 matches in various locations across the globe, with his best finish being 4th, he finished 9th in the world final and jumped to 20th strongest man in the world rankings with 71 points.
O’Hagan won the 2020 World’s Strongest Viking competition in Fefor, Norway.
