Convicted criminal Declan Brady was sentenced to ten years in prison on Monday for his involvement in the 2016 murder of Noel Kirwan.
Convicted criminal Declan Brady was sentenced to ten years in prison on Monday for his involvement in the 2016 murder of 62-year-old Noel Kirwan.
Brady is the fourth member of the Kinahan crime group to be convicted in relation to the murder. He is already serving sentences for money laundering and firearms offences, but claims he is no longer affiliated with the Kinahan group. It wasn't until 2010 that Declan Brady surfaced negatively on the radar of officialdom, but it wasn’t for criminality.
What we do know is that some point he became good friends with Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh, a Kinahan cartel associate who is now serving a 21-year sentence in England for drug smuggling. "I knew Noely well. He was one of the people who was continually on marches, participating, protesting about the issue. The inner city was awash with drugs at that time, right throughout the eighties and the nineties," Mr Costello told Prime Time.
When he traded in that car for another in December 2016 members of the Kinahan gang retrieved the tracker and placed it on Kirwan’s new car, a Ford Mondeo. By now he wasn't exactly keeping the head down, but he was still an unknown quantity to many in law enforcement. Brady was wearing a similar shirt and tie to a number of other mourners, including his friend Thomas Kavanagh, who was Byrne’s brother-in-law.
The haul included nine revolvers, four semi-automatic pistols, a submachine gun and an assault rifle. Over 4,000 rounds of ammunition were also seized. Having pleaded guilty to money laundering charges and gun charges, Brady began serving his sentence in Mountjoy Jail, and was later moved to the Progression Unit where prisoners with 'enhanced status’ serve their sentences. It was from that part of the prison that Brady was taken in 2022 to be charged by gardaí investigating the murder of Noel Kirwan.
Noel Kirwan’s daughter Donna has in recent years provided four victim impact statements to the Special Criminal Court, which has now sentenced four men for their roles in the murder of Noel Kirwan.
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