A 42-year-old man who admitted helping a criminal gang murder a rival gang member in Limerick 19 years ago has been jailed for 15 years.
Darragh Quinlivan, originally from Limerick but with an address in Ranswell Close, Bolton, in the UK, was initially charged with murder but pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm and shooting Noel Campion to enhance an organised crime group.
Quinlivan, who had been affiliated to the McCarthy-Dundon criminal gang, left Ireland after the killing but told several people, including a police officer in the US, that he had killed a man.
The murder was directed from “the very top” of the organised crime group.
Mr Justice Paul…