Plant hire director quit due to convictions for handling stolen vehicles
Tom O’Connor, aged 47, told gardaí he had become involved with people he described as “hooky” and he was afraid to identify them.
O’Connor, of Boltons Cross, Listowel, Co Kerry,and formerly Bunagarha, Listowel, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to handling a stolen Volvo A25D dumper truck at Brittas, Dublin, on a date between December 2009 and April 2010.