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Former Sinn Féin Councillor pleads guilty to facilitating Dublin murder

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03:44 28 Sep 2022


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A former Sinn Féin Councillor has pleaded guilty to facilitating the murder of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel in Dublin more than six years ago.

44-year-old Jonathan Dowdall of the Navan Road in Cabra, admitted to facilitating the murder by making a room available at the hotel for a criminal organisation on February 4th, 2016.

David Byrne was shot dead at a boxing weigh-in at the hotel the following evening.

Jonathan Dowdall will be sentenced on Monday - the same day he's due to face a murder charge alongside 58-year-old Gerry Hutch before the Special Criminal Court.


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