A triple All-Ireland medal winner who stole an “eye-watering” sum of money as part of a cross-border gang that used stolen diggers to pull ATMs from walls has been jailed for 10 years.
Ms Justice Tara Burns said Daniel O’Callaghan, 32, took part in an “audacious” operation on behalf of a “well oiled” criminal organisation that committed a series of ATM thefts and an attempted theft that was thwarted by gardai in 2019.
O’Callaghan had control over what the judge said was an “eye watering” sum of stolen money, amounting to more than €700,000. Gardai recouped €429,930 from a premises at Tullypole, Moynalty, Co Meath which prosecution counsel Anne-Marie Lawlor SC said today is the subject of Criminal Assets Bureau proceedings.
