Probe into inmate’s ‘mobile’ in court

The Prison Service is to respond to the High Court shortly explaining how a high-profile gangland inmate was able to brandish an object he claimed was a mobile phone before judges at the high-security Special Criminal Court.

Anthony ‘Noddy’ McCarthy was giving evidence last month in the trial of Limerick crime boss Wayne Dundon and his associate, Nathan Killeen, who were both charged with the murder of businessman Roy Collins in April 2009.

McCarthy, 32, of Fairgreen, Garryowen, is serving a life sentence for the murder of a rival gang chief Kieran Keane in January 2003. He is serving his sentence in Limerick Prison.