Nicola Tallent

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So anybody really who faces court, pleads not guilty, goes through a trial and ends up either with the mandatory life sentence for murder or very long sentences for, in this case, false imprisonment and intentionally causing harm.

to Kevin Lunny, you will see appeals.

They kind of come naturally.

So their lawyers will look for areas that they can either look to overturn the convictions or, you know, challenge the length of the sentences.

Now, Alan Hart from Island Key Apartments, he's 44.

Alan O'Brien,

he was from East Wall, and Darren Redmond, who was 31, from Caledon Road in East Wall.

Actually, all three were from East Wall, Eileen Quay Apartments.

They were all found guilty and they were sentenced to Hart, 30 years, O'Brien, 25 years, and Redmond, 18 years.

their first kind of tranche of appeal has failed because they've gone to the Court of Appeal and they have put up some arguments to state that the convictions should be overturned, that they were, you know, that a wrong decision was made essentially.

And something that followed a huge amount of unrest in Cabin.

Yes.

And was all...

focused on the background of Sean Quinn, who had been the richest man in the country, who had been somebody who had sort of overborrowed, overstretched itself in the boom times.

And the business was basically, you know, he lost the business after the crash.

Because he had borrowed too heavily.

He couldn't pay back those loans.

And many would say that the rest of us have been sort of paying for his mistakes ever since.

Yeah, now he would say something different.