Eamon Dillon

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He compared it to the part of the case that involved Gately.

He suggests like in the Gately case, there was far greater visibility, is the way he put it, that there were other people involved in, say, supplying the cars, acquiring the guns, putting together hit teams.

And there's none of that in the Kerwin case.

So he's suggesting, you know, very much so that McGovern was involved.

He was merely, just as he was in the Gately case, he was operating at a lower level, not as the only person who was directing this, that there were people ahead of him, or above him, rather, in the hierarchy.

Yeah, and he actually, he points out, like, you know, in the evidence about the plot against James Gately, he said, you can see in that case that

Like both himself and Padraig Keating didn't know where the information was coming from regards to La Raca's arrest.

They didn't know the foreigner, as he was called, was in the country.

So they didn't know in that case who was going to carry out the murder.

And he said, and so the same should be implied then or inferred rather in this case that Sean McGovern didn't necessarily know that Noel Cairn was who was going to or when it was going to be carried out.

Well, one of the things that they wanted to get across was that there was an early guilty plea.

And again, this was confirmed by the Guard of Witnesses.

And Michael Bowen was, you know, it was agreed by the judge that it's a 25% discount off whatever the headline sentence is going to be.

So whatever they decide what he should serve for this guilty plea, he's immediately going to get 25% off.

And Bowman said he'd go further than that.

And he was saying that it should go further than that because this particular case, based on circumstantial evidence, you know, it was a much greater risk for the state to bring these.

All it needs is one strand of evidence to break one of the wheels to fall off.

Yeah.

And