Prison bosses may have to house State witness Jonathan Dowdall and his father on their own prison wing if they are jailed tomorrow.
The former Sinn Fein councillor, set to give evidence against Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch, pleaded guilty to lesser charges for the Regency attack on February 5, 2016.
The 44-year-old, along with his father Patrick, 65, both with an address on the Navan Road in Dublin, admitted assisting a criminal gang to commit murder.