Third person sentenced to life for gangland murder

At the Central Criminal Court yesterday, a Dublin man became the third person sentenced to life imprisonment for the same gangland murder.

Gary Flynn, aged 31, of Rossfield Drive in Tallaght, had pleaded not guilty to the murder of Seamus ‘Shay’ O’Byrne at the victim’s home in Tallaght on March 13, 2009.

After a nine-week trial and nine hours of the judge’s summary, it took the jury just one hour and 40 minutes to convict Flynn of murder.