Niall

In fact, there was a constant stream of violent incidents.

Dean and Kenneth Fitzsimons and the Hennessy's, the three Hennessy brothers would have all been at the center of it.

On one occasion, Dean Fitzsimons was arrested.

His father had called down to Finglas Garda station to drop him in a change of clothes.

When his father came out of the Garda station, he was attacked by a guy with a knife, nearly killed.

Initially, the man was charged with attempted murder, but it was downgraded.

Kenneth Fitzsimons was lucky to survive.

He sort of dragged himself into the police station.

A couple of months after that, Dean Fitzsimons was allowed out on bail and Kenneth and Dean Fitzsimons were caught in a car with a revolver.

They were basically going to kill the man who had stabbed his father and they both got lengthy sentences for that.

Okay, so that is... So they come out really, like Kenneth and Dean Fitzsimons, I don't know the exact dates, but they can't have been out too long before they're already back into this.

Into this, yeah.

I mean, I don't know the exact time, but they can't have been out too long.

And he has another new partner who writes a letter of support for him and also refers to the death of his previous partner, the impact that it had on him.

So he gets eight years in total.

He actually gets a bit of mitigation for the fact he's older, which is a strange thing, actually.

No, mitigation.

They say, well, he's older than the other people, so that has to be taken into account.

Maybe prison would be more difficult.

But he gets an eight-year sentence where his son, Dean, gets eight and a half years.