Ex-councillor admits seeking killer for hire<

ormer Fianna Fáil councillor and solicitor Gary O’Flynn is to be sentenced in April after confessing to charges of soliciting someone to murder three people — a garda fraud squad, a Revenue Commissioner, and an accountant.

Gary O’Flynn, of Hayfield Drive, Castle Court, Whitechurch, Co Cork, was arraigned at Cork Circuit Criminal Court, where he pleaded guilty to three counts of soliciting a man to murder accountant Patrick Sweeney, Revenue official George Ross, and Sgt Mary Skehan of the Garda Fraud Squad at Anglesea St, Cork.

The charges were brought under Section 4 of the Offences Against the Persons Act 1861, soliciting to commit murder.