Music can’t drown out life sentence for murder

No matter how loud he turned the music up on his walkman, no matter no hard he pressed the headphones against his ears, John Dundon could not drown out the reality facing him in Court 11.

The notorious Limerick crime boss was given a life sentence yesterday for the murder of Shane Geoghegan, mistakenly gunned down as he walked home to his girlfriend’s house in the city almost five years ago.

There was silence in the packed Special Criminal Court as Dundon was brought into the defendant’s area by prison officers, flanked nearby and throughout the court by special branch detectives. Wearing a black track-suit with a blue and light-grey striped top, Dundon strode casually to his bench.