Eamon Dillon

He talks about the senior leadership operating at a very high level and that each of the, you know, each of the cells which did different jobs, whether it was drugs or carry out intimidation and violence or murder or money laundering, that each of them had their own internal hierarchy.

So this is all very much a kind of a,

an explanation that an organization exists because the charge against McGovern is directing a criminal organization.

So they have to show that there's an organization there for him to direct.

And then we get into his previous convictions of which there was nine road traffic.

So there was basically no criminal convictions.

And then they were briefly given the kind of story about how he was arrested in the UAE and then extradited.

I think it was in May last year and then extradited back to Ireland in October.

And he pleaded guilty then to these two charges on the 16th of March.

And then it was...

Michael Bowman, who is, I suppose, counsel for McGovern, and he kind of goes through, again, he's leading the detective superintendent, Gallagher, through the evidence as well.

And really what he's doing here is he's trying to show that

while Keating and McGovern were both kind of involved in directing the gang, they were far from being at the very top.

And so he's obviously making the point that his client is not a person who's at the very top of the scale here.

So he's not the person who should be getting, you know, a longer sentence than anyone else who's been already convicted.

And they go into that as well.

And in fairness to her, the attacker dropped this Marikov pistol.

Yeah, and they believe it was inadvertently dropped as he was getting into the vehicle and the CCTV of this van with the side door still open as it kind of speeds away.

It goes 500 yards down the road to Neilstown Shopping Centre and two people are seen getting out and they set the van on fire and only move like when they're sure the fire is taken and they've left on foot.

And then, of course, they found a GPS tracker again.