Eamon Dillon

kind of proceeds of criminal assets that were used to buy this house.

So that was the argument they're making, which Judge Liam Kennedy, you know, reserved his judgment.

So he's going to come back on that and presumably produce a judgment at a later date on that.

But he also talked about how he was basically recruited by Gary Ward.

He was shown how to mix the drugs and bag them and sell them.

He was threatened with an iron bar that he couldn't refuse in order to go to Dublin at any time to pick up heroin.

And that he would be expected to do that on a frequent basis.

And he was given a phone and told to turn it on at 10 a.m.

in the morning and turn it off at 10 p.m.

And while the phone was on, he was working for him.

Well, the target of the Criminal Assets Bureau case was Gary Ward, who is described as the leader of this particular organized crime group as the terminology they always use.

And his wife, Debbie, she wasn't involved in the crime, but was aware of where the money was coming from and benefited from, I suppose, her partner's work as a drug dealer.

Are they in Galway City now or where?

The Galway City, Newcastle area where he grew up and spent most of his life, he never had a job.

There was some evidence that he might have recently started work as a courier, but there was no returns of revenue or anything like that.

So as far as they could see, he never had any kind of real legitimate income, never held a job.

And he was kind of seen as the leading light in this group.

It was basically called, it was a family group.

And two of his brothers, Declan and Michael, were also named as being leading figures in this.

And they basically were one of, I suppose, the most significant, as the word used, suppliers of heroin and cocaine in Galway City County, and then some parts of Mayo and Leitrim as well.