Former Kilkenny hurler DJ Carey was once considered an icon. On Monday, his fall from grace was completed with a five-and-a-half-year prison sentence for fraud offences. File photograph: Patrick Bolger/Inpho
“A final comment,” said Judge Martin Nolan before DJ Carey turned to go. “I couldn’t imagine a more reprehensible fraud than to tell people you had cancer and to extort money from them on that basis.”
That’s what it all came down to in the end. All the years, all the rumours and all the stories, the whole elaborate cobweb of fantasy that Carey had constructed around his life, it was all reduced to brass tacks now. He had taken almost €400,000 from people under false pretences and now he was going to jail for 5½ years.
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