An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business
Dail Éireann — 2023-04-18
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Paul Kehoe (FG), Wexford

Those convicted by the Special Criminal Court in the past include John Gilligan, Patrick "Dutchy" Holland, Brian Meehan for the murder of Veronica Guerin, Pearse McAuley, Jeremiah Sheehy, Michael O'Neill, Kevin Walsh for the slaying of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe in 1996, Michael McKevitt for directing terrorism as leader of the Real IRA, brothers John and Wayne Dundon for murdering innocent men in Limerick and Thomas "Slab" Murphy, who was jailed for 18 months for tax fraud. Mr. Murphy was later described by Deputy Mary Lou McDonald as a "good Republican". In 2022 Deputy McDonald's good friend Jonathan Dowdall was jailed for facilitating the Regency gangland murder. That was the second time Dowdall was convicted. He was sentenced for waterboarding in 2015 while serving as a Sinn Féin councillor. He was convicted twice in the Special Criminal Court; not many criminals have achieved that feat.

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