All-Ireland winner jailed for 10 years for ATM thefts

Daniel O'Callaghan: Played a central role, the judge said, as a planner and active member of the gang. She said O'Callaghan contested the charges against him despite being caught "red-handed" at the scene of an attempted ATM theft in Virginia, Co Cavan.

An All-Ireland winner who stole an "eye-watering" sum of money as part of a cross-border gang that used stolen diggers to pull ATMs from walls has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment at the Special Criminal Court.

Ms Justice Tara Burns said at Daniel O'Callaghan, aged 32, took part in an audacious operation on behalf of a well-oiled criminal organisation that committed a series of ATM thefts and an attempted theft that was thwarted by gardaí in 2019.