From All-Ireland hero to courtroom shame — DJ Carey’s guilty plea ends a sad chapter

Once a national sporting hero, DJ Carey now awaits sentencing after admitting to a years-long fraud involving fake cancer claims

Dressed in a black suit and adopting a neutral, focused gaze, former Kilkenny hurler DJ Carey said the word “guilty” to each charge he faced. Photo: Niall Carson/PA

“A jury will not be required,” Colman Cody SC told Ms Justice Patricia Ryan just after 10am in court room seven in the Criminal Courts of Justice in Dublin.

In court parlance, and coming from the defence barrister, that meant the accused was pleading guilty. The court had previously heard that the trial would take three-to-four weeks, or could even stretch into a fifth.