Eimear Rabbitt
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So, you know, it does go to show how long it took.
And I suppose there's always, it's the first case of an Irish suspected, you know, he's obviously an Irish gangland, senior gangland figure to be extradited.
For sure.
Exactly.
Yeah.
It did.
And like, it's funny because, you know, like there's always things, as you know yourself, there's always things filtering out.
And, you know, we had known that they wanted Sean McGovern and then there was kind of fears with this happened.
And then all of a sudden he was just, he was in, he was in prison for a while over there, wasn't he?
So they got him quickly.
So yeah, it did go very quiet, which is probably a good thing in terms of the guards.
Yeah, they are, yeah.
They're basically, so Sean Geeran, he is counsel for the defence, so he basically said that a good deal of work has been done.
He said, as you said, there's a massive volume of material to go through, but they said some progress has been made and they basically said they weren't in a position to say if a trial date will ultimately be required, which I thought was unusual for a defence to say because I'm thinking, what does that mean?
Are they not expecting a trial?
But as you said, it's probably just legal language and maybe that they're
You know, they think that maybe they have a case to try and get things thrown out.
You never know.
Yeah, well, this is the thing I thought, oh my God.
Exactly.