Jonathan Dowdall and father admit facilitating murder of David Byrne at Regency Hotel

Gerard 'The Monk' Hutch is also charged with the murder of the Kinahan gang member

Jonathan Dowdall (right) and his father Patrick Dowdall (left) pleaded guilty to facilitating the murder of Mr Byrne as part of the Hutch-Kinahan feud. File picture: Collins Courts

A former Sinn Féin councillor and his father have pleaded guilty to facilitating the murder of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel in 2016 as part of the Hutch-Kinahan feud.

Last April, former Sinn Féin councillor Jonathan Dowdall (44), with an address at Navan Road, Cabra, Dublin 7, was charged at the non-jury court with the murder of Mr Byrne at the hotel. He is listed to go on trial for that alleged offence alongside other co-accused men, who are all charged in connection with the murder of Mr Byrne (34), from Crumlin, at the three-judge Special Criminal Court on Monday, October 3, 2022.