Eamon Dillon

Yeah, he was living up in Donegal and at one point he was on bail for this facilitating a crime gang charge.

I think it was part of, he acquired a car or had a car acquired that was used by the people who shot and seriously wounded Christie Keane, head of a rival gang who was lucky to survive.

That was in 2015.

That was probably the last act of the Limerick feud in one sense, at that level certainly.

So he surprisingly pleaded guilty at the very last minute in the special criminal court to that.

And again, they were talking about a potential trial that could have gone on for several weeks.

I think off the top of my head was over 100 witnesses that were going to be called.

So that was a bit of a surprise that he changed his plea at the last minute.

But yeah, when he was on bail at the time before that and had kind of said, you know, at one point he was living in Donegal.

with his wife and I think they're now adult children.

And like one of his bail conditions was that he'd have to get permission anytime he wanted to go back to Limerick.

So that's a, you know, a big comedown for somebody who was considered the head of the McCarthy-Dundon clan at one stage.

He was going to have permission, get permission from the guards or from the authorities to go back into Limerick.

Yeah, so this is one that started last year and there wasn't a lot of detail originally

like at one point I mean they had there was his previous lawyers had difficulty kind of getting affidavits I think they had basically it was getting access to him because he was now in prison serving six and a half years he was sentenced in the special criminal court

But he actually had to be brought to court at one stage because his solicitors were coming off record and the judge had to hear it for himself.

So he was actually brought up to court 29 in the old four courts building because it's a civil case.

And he was there outside, you know, handcuffed with, I think there was five prison officers there as well as not to mention there was the

I suppose the detectives from the criminal access bureau were all in the vicinity as well.

And he briefly spoke, he was asked, I remember, did you kind of understand what was being said?