The three wise men? Yokes? The million-dollar man? What is it Gerry Hutch finds so funny? 

Regency Hotel accused laughs in court as he hears tapes of a conversation — apparently between him and Jonathan Dowdall — after a bid to get republicans to broker a gangland ceasefire 
The three wise men? Yokes? The million-dollar man? What is it Gerry Hutch finds so funny? 

A prison van under garda escort arriving at the Special Criminal Court today, Wednesday, where the trial of Gerry Hutch, for the murder of David Byrne, is continuing. Mr Hutch has pleaded not guilty. Picture: Collins Courts

“All the same, if the cops are following us, you’d know like a light.”

This is a sentence uttered by a man the State claims is Jonathan Dowdall, speaking to Gerry ‘the Monk’ Hutch while gardaí had secretly attached a tracker and a listening device to his car. Indeed, the court has already heard from more than a dozen surveillance gardaí who were following Dowdall’s Land Cruiser on that day.

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