Eamon Dillon

and the entire case falls.

So he saved the state an awful lot of time and an awful lot of Garda resources.

And it was also mentioned, which I didn't think would be an issue, but then again, I'm not a High Court barrister or a judge, obviously.

And the issue of a consecutive sentence has to be considered.

So the idea that, you know, there's going to be, because it is two charges, like one is in relation to Keating and one is in relation to Kirwan.

And

But whether or not, so the judges are going to come back at some point and they'll explain their sentence and what they'll do in regards to that.

But it did raise its head that a consecutive sentence was potentially on the table.

Yeah, and they're referred to like, well, Patrick Keating's case was referred to during the hearing on Monday, in which he got 11 years on a similar charge.

and arguing that, you know, he's very much at the same level as Patrick Keating, you know, you're suggesting then, but that was, he was only sentenced in relation to the Gaitley.

He wasn't sentenced in relation to, he wasn't charged with the part of the Kirwan investigation.

Now, it was brought up in court then, I suppose as a precedent, was the case of Michael McKevitt.

He was charged with directing, again, as a directing crime criminal organization charge back in 2003.

And he was as a leading member of the real IRA.

And that was 2003.

And he got 20 years for that.

Now, it did fall out of the timeframe that he was charged that the OMA bomb atrocity wasn't part of that.

And another man who was actually convicted of conspiracy in that bomb attack got 15 years.

So I suppose they're trying to put out the idea that this is probably as bad as you can get in terms of directing a criminal organization.

So they're trying to float the idea that this is roughly where the maximum sentence should start.