{"id":400085,"date":"2026-04-15T17:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T17:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/400085\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T17:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T17:21:08","slug":"life-of-former-underage-player-for-cork-city-and-ireland-spiralled-after-brothers-death-court-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/400085\/","title":{"rendered":"Life of former underage player for Cork City and Ireland spiralled after brother&#8217;s death, court told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A young man who won All-Ireland titles for boxing and played soccer for Cork City and for Ireland at a very young age, saw his life spiral out of control when his brother was killed in a car crash for which there were criminal prosecutions against a number of people.<\/p>\n<p> Solicitor Diarmuid Kelleher said Tony Dolan had a very difficult time following the death of his brother.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The solicitor said 31-year-old Tony Dolan of Hollyhill Heights, Hollyhill, Cork, had benefitted from being in custody for the last number of weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cApart from keeping him busy he is an enhanced prisoner. He is hoping to come back into soccer coaching when he comes out of prison,\u201d Mr Kelleher said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Judge Mary Dorgan directed preparation of a probation report while he is in prison and adjourned sentencing until April 28 for that purpose.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Asked if he would co-operate around the preparation of that report, the defendant told Judge Dorgan that he would.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He pleaded guilty to possession of \u20ac100 of cocaine and \u20ac25 of cannabis at Grand Parade, Cork, on September 6, 2025, against a background of multiple convictions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The defendant\u2019s 16-year-old brother was killed in the criminal incident on the road in May 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young man who won All-Ireland titles for boxing and played soccer for Cork City and for Ireland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[27510,2246,79,54,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-400085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-drugs-crisis","tag-cork-court","tag-cork-news","tag-courts","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}