Heroin dealer asked undercover gardaí to rob pensioners

A heroin dealer armed with a lump hammer, claw hammer, and pepper spray on his way to robbing an isolated home belonging to two elderly brothers, has been jailed for 16 months.

Computer whizz Damien Hally was the main target of an undercover drugs operation in west Clare and sold heroin, cocaine and cannabis in the Tesco carpark in Kilrush to undercover gardaí, posing as drug addicts, in February to April 2013. Father-of-two Hally, of Cosy Cottage, Moyasta, Kilrush, asked the undercover gardaí to get involved “in a job” to carry out the burglary of the brothers’ home in north Clare in April 2013.

Insp John Ryan told Kilrush District Court yesterday Hally believed that the brothers had a lot of money.