DJ Carey

[Truthsayer]

I've given you 3 All Ireland finals against one of Kilkenny's biggest rivals where he didn't show up.
That's the elephant in the room for Carey.

That's the elephant in the room for you, not Carey. You desperately conjure up three games, one were he was All Ireland winning captain, while ignoring his overall career. In Honours category they should add:  Three games that didn't impress Lamps:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._J._Carey

Seriously, what does captaining a team have to do with it? He was elected captain by his own club.
He failed to score in the final. A decision made by club months before that doesn't cover that up.

I've given you 3 All Ireland finals against one of Kilkenny's biggest rivals where he didn't show up.
That's the elephant in the room for Carey.

This does read like 'I always said he was shite' despite never actually saying it

I've never claimed he was shite. He just didn't do it in many crunch games.
Colin Montgomerie wasn't a shite golfer, he just didn't have what's needed to win a major.

You're some boy at moving the goalposts!
Colin Montgomerie didn't win 5 All Irelands, 10 Leinster titles and 9 All Stars... thems some majors for Carey!
Where does your logic leave Patrick Horgan especially after this year's All Ireland final debacle?
Jees! If a Cork player had DJ's record yis would have a statue up to him ✨️

[seafoid]

https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2025/10/04/new-legal-term-a-womans-double-murder-trial-dj-careys-fraud-sentence-and-conor-mcgregors-application/

DJ Carey
Former Kilkenny hurler DJ Carey faces a sentencing hearing on October 29th after admitting defrauding a number of people out of money while pretending he had cancer.

[Blowitupref]

From RTE

The sentencing of former Kilkenny hurler DJ Carey, who was due to be sentenced today for defrauding people by pretending he had cancer and seeking money for treatment, has been adjourned until Friday after the court was told he was in hospital.

Carey, with an address at Newtown, Maynooth in Co Kildare, pleaded guilty last July before he was due to stand trial. He admitted ten counts of dishonestly inducing people to pay him money after he falsely claimed to have cancer.

The offences occurred between 2014 and 2022 and involve 13 named people, including businessman Denis O'Brien.

This morning when the case was called, Judge Martin Nolan was told that Carey was not present and his barrister handed in a sick note to the judge.

Prosecuting Counsel Dominic McGinn said he had just received a photocopy of the medical letter, which said Carey was in Portiuncula Hospital.

Mr McGinn said gardaí had received information yesterday. He said they had called the hospital and were told yesterday that Carey was not an inpatient.

After further inquiries the court was told that Carey went into an emergency department on Monday but was not kept there.

Prosecuting lawyers said gardaí had been told that he was now back in hospital. He had not been detained but was waiting for a bed.

Defence Counsel Colman Cody said his solicitor had spoken to a nurse who said Carey was waiting for a consultation with a consultant but the nurse was not able to provide information about why he was in hospital.

Mr Cody said Carey had a history of health issues and had surgery last year for a heart condition and he was surmising that was the reason he was in hospital.

Judge Martin Nolan said he would sentence him on Friday.

The sentence hearing is expected to take around an hour-and-a-half and may hear victim impact evidence from some of those who gave money to Carey for cancer treatment that never happened.

Carey has been on bail in advance of the hearing

[gallsman]

Just got sent it and came here to post 

Unbelievable stuff.

[seafoid]

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/10/29/dj-carey-to-be-sentenced-for-defrauding-people-over-cancer-treatment-claims/The charges to which Mr Carey pleaded guilty also included the same offence in relation to: Owen and Ann Conway on unknown dates between March 25th, 2021 and November 3rd, 2022; Mark and Sharon Kelly on unknown dates between May 26th, 2021 and December 10th, 2022; Aidan Mulligan on unknown dates between June 1st, 2022 and September 22nd, 2022; Edwin Carey on unknown dates between December 21st, 2021 and November 12th, 2022; former Clare hurler Tony Griffin and Christy Browne on unknown dates between September 1st, 2022 and October 26th, 2022; Thomas Butler on unknown dates between October 1st, 2019 and November 11th, 2022; Jeffrey Howes on unknown dates between February 1st, 2022 and August 8th, 2022; Noel Tynan on unknown dates between January 1st, 2017 and October 12th, 2022; and Aonghus Leydon on unknown dates between March 14th, 2022 and March 21st, 2022.

It has been disclosed that the total amount obtained by Carey was €394,127 and, separately, $13,000 (US dollars). Of that, €44,200 was repaid. The outstanding sum is €349,927 and $13,000.

[Lamps]

DJ banged up now, sentencing to be confirmed on Monday! 

[seafoid]

https://www.rte.ie/news/courts/2025/1031/1541401-dj-carey-court/

[Saffrongael]

   

A jaw-dropping account of DJ Carey's thriving career as a swindler


https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2025/10/31/a-jaw-dropping-account-of-dj-careys-thriving-career-as-a-swindler/



Former hurling All-Star DJ Carey is in jail.
On the strength of the evidence about how he stung so many people for so much money by pretending he had cancer, he is in the right place.
Friday's courtroom atmosphere changed about halfway through this jaw-dropping account of DJ Carey's thriving career as a swindler.
The list of people he duped into giving him money was a long one – unlike the story he concocted to loosen their wallets.


It was simple: a nationally revered sporting great is seriously ill with cancer and attending a hospital in America for treatment. It's expensive and he is in a bit of a financial bind for one reason or another and needs a short-term dig out to continue this life-giving care.

Of course, people wanted to help DJ.
And he cynically manipulated them and took their money.

Shameless and never in Seattle.
As prosecution lawyer Dominic McGinn slowly untangled the web of deception spun over nine years by the former All-Star Kilkenny hurler, the extent of his enterprise and sheer brazenness in conducting it was breathtaking.
Carey's ability to embellish his sob story with touching little details to extract the maximum return from his good-hearted benefactors was striking. He conned 22 people with his squalid fabrication.

In the packed courtroom, a few observers began to smile as Judge Martin Nolan heard yet another version of how he packaged up his lies to persuade yet another decent person to assist him.

Such audaciousness. Such inventiveness. And the neck. The absolute brass neck of him. That lawyer might as well have been reading from the storyline for a fast-paced crime drama.
The place was agog. (Apart from Carey, who had already pleaded guilty to numerous counts of deception and was waiting to be sentenced. He sat in the dock, motionless and emotionless. Was he even listening?)

But then, as senior counsel McGinn worked through the list of his victims, he came to March 2022 and the couple Margaret and Ger Kirwan. DJ had got friendly with Ger, who told him Margaret was suffering from cancer.
The former hurler didn't miss a trick.
Well, said he, there and then on the spot, didn't he have that exact same cancer?

Not long afterwards, heartless and callous Carey followed up with a request for four grand.
And that was the moment in court number five when the atmosphere changed.
This fallen hero, coldly exploiting a woman's cancer diagnosis by pretending he shared that same pain so he could extract a few bob from her and her husband.
People exchanged glances in the public gallery. Some shook their heads.
How could anyone be so cruel and calculating?

One could almost feel the chill set in, the sudden edge in the air.
During the break for lunch, we met a man who is part of a group of about a dozen retirees from around the country who meet up regularly to attend court cases of interest. He didn't want to give his name.

"We have a WhatsApp group and we even have a Christmas lunch every year," he said.
So, with their long experience of big court cases, what about this one?
"It's mind-boggling."

It certainly was. And that wasn't counting the man who was spotted by a court official sitting at the back of the court, surreptitiously videoing the proceedings on his phone. A garda seized his phone and laptop and the judge was informed.


[ 'I was completely duped by DJ Carey,' says Denis O'Brien as former hurler is remanded in custodyOpens in new window ]
Meanwhile DJ Carey – not yet condemned, although the judge would tell him later that a custodial sentence was "inevitable" – ate a hearty lunch of chicken curry in the second-floor cafeteria.
After the break, the judge dealt quickly with a couple of cases. The defendants briefly took up residence in the dock.


Carey found himself in familiar territory, standing at the end of the square, waiting. But he was soon allowed back to his spot behind the glass. He looked tired, and a little flushed and puffy under the eyes.


There was a discussion about how much money he took from people. It nudged closed to €400,000 territory, even allowing for the small portion of funds he managed to pay back.
The crowd swelled as the end of the hearing, and possible sentencing, approached.

DJ can still draw a crowd.
Albeit for all the wrong reasons this time.

The full detail of Carey's criminal carry-on was laid bare in that courtroom.

He didn't care who he tapped up for cash – from a billionaire businessman to an ardent Kilkenny hurling supporter who dug into the pension lump sum he was hoping to share with his children to help out his sporting hero.
Exploiting his sporting reputation to exploit friends, friends of friends and random people he came across during his glittering career who might be a good mark.


A victim-impact statement was read on behalf of Denis O'Brien, who has given millions over the years to deserving causes.


DJ Carey, he said, continually took advantage of their friendship. What he did was "unconscionable". It was "deceitful, manipulative and cunning".
Even billionaire O'Brien said he was embarrassed to have been duped by Carey.


It was a sentiment echoed by the very softly spoken Thomas Butler, who gave more than the guts of €15,000 out of his pension lump sum. Then Carey had the temerity to ask him to approach business people on his behalf in effort to get money.
He hurt was almost palpable.

Carey didn't even look at him when he walked past on his way from the witness box.


There was the bogus credit loan which didn't cover all the cost of his treatment so he needed extra help.
There were the people who gave DJ a job, only for him to stick them for a few thousand.


And there was the story of Carey's sporting success in America. He spun a yarn about winning a handball title there, which meant he was "an elite athlete" and would not have to pay for his medical treatment. Unfortunately, he could not cover his other expenses, such as fights, accommodation and the rest.


[ How DJ Carey went from superstar hurler to serial fraudster in spectacular downfallOpens in new window ]
At times, the tall tales were reminiscent of the notorious old Nigerian prince scam – an individual of high esteem – perhaps of noble rank, or a sporting hero – asks a person they have taken into their confidence for help. This individual is temporarily financially strapped but just a small injection of money will allow them to unlock a huge cash windfall...

Because for DJ, there was one just around the corner. He told people he was in line for a million-euro-plus payout from the Health Service Executive after he received "an excessive dose of radiation" in St James's Hospital.


Not a word of truth to it.


His defence lawyer, Colman Cody SC, spoke in mitigation of his client while not seeking in any way to minimise the seriousness of his offences. He almost ran out of ways of describing how far this once admired and celebrated person has fallen from grace.
The judge reserved his judgment until Monday and remanded the fallen hero in custody.
It didn't seemed to register with him at first. Then he spoke hurriedly to one of the three prison officers around him. He looked a little taken aback and then the door opened behind him and they led him away.
DJ Carey walked down many tunnels when he wore the black and amber of Kilkenny.
But never one like this.
As the crowd cleared, the man who drove DJ to court prepared to leave the court. He had been taking notes in the margins of a dog-eared GAA match programme. He rolled it up and stuck it in his pocket.
John Crowley, a potato farmer from Mooncoin, said the programme was from last week's senior county hurling final.
He knew DJ from when he was a boy and he was a good friend.
John didn't want to comment on what transpired in court. "Sure lookit, the judge has spoken. It's not up to me..."
He wouldn't defend anything DJ has done and he has sympathy for the people he duped.
"But, you see, if you're a good Christian, a good Catholic, you'll reach out to those in need and I've reached out my hand to him."

[rodney trotter]

Former Kilkenny hurler DJ Carey has been jailed for five-and-a-half years for defrauding people by falsely claiming he had cancer and needed money for treatment

[Gallybander]

Former Kilkenny hurler DJ Carey has been jailed for five-and-a-half years for defrauding people by falsely claiming he had cancer and needed money for treatment

That's a heavier sentence than I thought. He conned people, but people seemingly had enough spare cash to give him.
There are other people he took money from too. they might be too embarrassed about it.

[seafoid]

https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2025/11/03/former-kilkenny-hurler-dj-carey-jailed-for-five-and-a-half-years-for-reprehensible-fraud/

Former Kilkenny hurler DJ Carey jailed for five and a half years for 'reprehensible fraud'
Former sportsman induced 22 people to give him about €400,000 to fund treatment for cancer that he did not have


Mary Carolan
Mon Nov 03 2025 - 13:15
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6 MIN READ

Former Kilkenny hurling great DJ Carey has been jailed for an effective five and a half years for inducing 22 people to give him about €400,000 to fund treatment for cancer that he did not have.

Judge Martin Nolan said he "could not imagine a more reprehensible fraud than to tell people you have cancer and extort money on that basis".

Probably the only other one on that level would be to deceive very elderly people, he said.

Carey (54), of The Drive, Newtown, Maynooth, Co Kildare pleaded guilty to 10 charges last July.

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The judge said Carey had pleaded guilty to offences involving deception, he claimed he had cancer and needed treatment in the US, the chosen hospital was in Seattle. He had also claimed he had a civil action against HSE and anticipated a positive outcome and would repay monies from that.

Carey promised all the injured parties the monies would be repaid but it turned out he did not have cancer and had not sued the HSE and there would be no proceeds from that, Judge Nolan said.

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It seems most of the monies Carey received were not repaid and he probably gained about €349,000, the judge said.

This was a "very low" fraud involving advantage of people's good nature and good will towards him, the judge said. Carey had exploited the good nature of others and the goodwill due to his being well known and an outstanding sportsman.

The weakness that most fraudsters seek to exploit is greed but that was not the case here, he said, noting that Carey exploited the good nature of these people, knew a lot of them, they knew him and they had good regard for him. He had persuaded them he needed the monies urgently and would repay them.

"It is a very serious matter, it is reprehensible and very bad behaviour."

All the parties who gave monies must have looked in the mirror and thought 'how foolish I am' but what Carey had done was that he had exploited them for being good people.

The maximum sentence on each of the 10 counts at issue was five years but the court had to take into account the criminal behaviour and mitigation, including Carey's pleas of guilty last July to 10 charges. "All pleas in white collar criminal cases are valuable," the judge said.


[ How DJ Carey went from hurling great to convicted fraudsterOpens in new window ]

Carey also demonstrated a certain level of co-operation with gardaí and had made some admissions although not at formal interview, Judge Nolan noted.

He has no previous convictions and has some work history and will probably not reoffend in the future although the court cannot be certain, the judge said

He was a formidable sportsman in hurling and handball, probably one of the best hurlers ever, the judge noted.

By reason of what Carey did, he has been subject of public odium and ridicule, his reputation had been destroyed and his good name will probably never recover, the judge said. On his release from prison, he will probably have a tough life, he added.

The judge also noted Carey has a heart condition and received treatment.

He said it was hard to know what motivated Carey but what he did was "grossly wrong".


Some of his victims lost a lot of money and whole other parties lost less significant sums, they may not have been able to afford those. The judge also supposed they lost a certain amount of belief in human nature too.

He was impressed by Thomas Butler, who gave Carey more than €16,000, and read his own victim impact report, he said.

The judge set a headline sentence of eight to 10 years for Carey's "global misbehaviour", which he reduced due to Carey's guilty plea and other mitigating factors.

He imposed concurrent sentences of five years, four years and 1.5 years in relation to his pleas, making an effective sentence of five and a half years. He could not imagine a "more reprehensible fraud", the judge concluded.

Of a total €394,127 and US$13,000 received by Carey, €44,200 was repaid, leaving €349,927 and US$13,000 outstanding.

Carey's victims included businessman Denis O'Brien, who said in a victim impact statement that he had believed Carey's cancer claim. Over eight years from 2014, Mr O'Brien advanced him about €125,000 and US$13,000, including repaying a €60,000 sum Carey owed to AIB. Mr O'Brien also gave Carey the use of the apartment and a car when he was in Dublin.


Carey, the court heard, provided false documents to Mr O'Brien and his financial adviser in support of his false cancer claim.

[ Halfway through the account of DJ Carey's career as a swindler, the atmosphere changedOpens in new window ]

What Carey did was "extraordinarily deceitful, manipulative and cunning", Mr O'Brien said. "To my embarrassment, I was completely duped by DJ Carey."

Thomas Butler, an accountant who gave Carey more than €16,000 from his pension, said the fact the former hurler used cancer as a means to obtain money under a false pretence "was gut wrenching personally for me as both my parents died of cancer".

Carey's counsel Colman Cody said the former star's "descent into shame" was as "meteoric" as was his rise to sporting greatness and he is now essentially of no fixed abode.

As there was no immediate prospect of repaying those affected, all Carey could do was offer a sincere and heartfelt apology, counsel said.

Carey has a genuine heart condition, Mr Cody added.


A Garda investigation into Carey's cancer claim began after a bank worker became suspicious in summer 2022 when an older woman customer sought to transfer money to Carey.

As a result of information from banks, gardaí put together a series of deceptions over time.

In December 2022, gardaí got warrants to search Carey's home, a hotel room in Co Kilkenny, and his car. From phone data, they found references to cancer and to having to go to Seattle for treatment, along with messages revealing numerous excuses for non-payment of monies, often saying he was in Seattle or blaming banks for monies not going through.

Gardaí also found letters purporting to be from the Fred Hutchinson cancer centre in Seattle but, when contacted, it had no record of a patient named Denis or DJ Carey.

On December 14th 2022, Carey told gardaí he had been sick in 2012 with a heart wall virus and, at that time, made up a story he was sick with cancer to buy time because he had a substantial debt with AIB. He admitted he had never been sick with cancer and never sought treatment for that.

Among 10 charges admitted last July by Carey was that he, dishonestly and by deception, induced Denis O'Brien to give him money to pay for cancer treatment on unknown dates between January 2014 and September 2022.

He pleaded guilty to the same offence, on different unknown dates, mainly in 2021 and 2022, in relation to Owen and Ann Conway; Mark and Sharon Kelly; Aidan Mulligan; his cousin Edwin Carey; Jeffrey Howes; former Clare hurler Tony Griffin and Christy Browne and publican Aonghus Leydon. The same offence was admitted in relation to Thomas Butler on unknown dates between 2019 and 2022, and regarding publican Noel Tynan on unknown dates between 2017 and 2022.

Among 10 charges taken into consideration, one related to Tom Brennan, who went to the same school as Carey, St Ciaran's in Kilkenny. Carey contacted Brennan in 2020 seeking €120,000 to clear a debt with AIB and claiming he was due a medical negligence payment.

Brennan paid Carey €120,000 on the understanding that would be repaid but, despite taking legal proceedings, Brennan remains unpaid.

Some of the charges taken into consideration involved people who were fully repaid the sums advanced to Carey. Those included Peadar Hughes, who knew Carey through handball and was repaid €3,000; Donal Carroll who was repaid €10,000 and Brendan Fleming, repaid €14,000.

[Ash Smoker]

If Carey's dodgy stories were being whispered in Kilkenny GAA circle for years, then why did Cody bring into the Kilkenny backroom team in 2021?
Poor judgement there.

[blanketattack]

If Carey's dodgy stories were being whispered in Kilkenny GAA circle for years, then why did Cody bring into the Kilkenny backroom team in 2021?
Poor judgement there.

Maybe Carey owed him money and he took Carey's expenses

[seafoid]

https://www.kilkennypeople.ie/news/gaa/1883990/big-read-dj-carey-was-kilkenny-s-greatest-now-this-sorrowful-travesty-unfolds.html

[Gallybander]

https://www.kilkennypeople.ie/news/gaa/1883990/big-read-dj-carey-was-kilkenny-s-greatest-now-this-sorrowful-travesty-unfolds.html

When he was named and charged, this newspaper received correspondence insisting that we must have had wrong, or it couldn't be true, or would we not just leave poor DJ alone? Back your local legend. As Kilkenny's local newspaper, what do you do?

Typical Kilkenny response, close ranks, hush it up.