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'Road to Damascus' criminal who provided car used in Christy Keane hit gets 6.5 years

2024-03-07 · Donegal · Special Criminal Court

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A man from Donegal has been sentenced to six-and-a-half years imprisonment by the Special Criminal Court for providing a getaway vehicle used in an attempted murder. The 45-year-old pleaded guilty in October to making a car available to the McCarthy-Dundon organised crime gang between 27 and 29 June 2015. The vehicle was used in the shooting of Christy Keane, a Limerick criminal, outside the University of Limerick gym. Keane was struck by thirteen rounds fired by two gunmen and sustained four gunshot wounds. Justice Caroline Biggs imposed an initial eight-year sentence, reduced from a headline ten years, and suspended the final eighteen months conditional on good behaviour. The court heard the offender had been crime-free for nine years whilst living in County Donegal, held employment, and engaged positively in community programmes. A psychologist assessed him as presenting a low reoffending risk. Time served in custody of two years, seven months and twenty days was credited against the sentence.

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