Niall

Yeah, they were delighted, I think, with the sentencing.

I mean, was it a bad day for the Gardaí?

I think the Gardaí did their job.

Exactly, rather than a bad job done by them.

No, no, no, not a bad job at all.

I mean, yes, you could see the reaction of the Hennessys and the two Fitzsimons.

They were, they were literally laughing away.

It was, well, let's go through, I suppose, the sentencing and they can make up their own mind.

Yeah.

Okay.

So the brothers are quite very close in age.

It's false imprisonment with the

intention of enhancing the activities of a criminal organization.

Is it assault?

Yeah, there's assaults as well, and they're on slightly different charges.

But the basic, the main charge is false imprisonment.

Now, I suppose the equivalence would be that Kevin Lunny was, well, he wasn't branded, but he had letters cut into his forehead with a knife, if I remember correctly.

Now, this is similar to the Hennessy case in that, except for this Hennessy case, the Hennessy gang case, if you want, it's even more gruesome.

It is more gruesome.

Yeah, well, Alan Hart, who was regarded as being the leader of the gang, he got, in that case, he was found guilty of falsely imprisoning and intentionally causing harm, and he got a total of 30 years, a really long sentence.