John Gilligan's daughter, Tracey, wins challenge to CAB decisions on social welfare applications

Tracey Gilligan's father John (pictured) was once one of the biggest importers of drugs into the Republic and his gang murdered crime journalist Veronica Guerin in 1996. File photo: Cate McCurry/PA

Tracey Gilligan, a daughter of convicted drug dealer John Gilligan, has won her case arguing the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) mishandled her social welfare applications.

Mr Justice Garrett Simons ruled on Thursday that it was unlawful for the CAB, in accepting jurisdiction for her applications, to have relied upon a 1998 decision in a different social welfare request made by Ms Gilligan.