{"id":489475,"date":"2026-06-08T19:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T19:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/489475\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T19:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T19:48:08","slug":"two-men-plead-guilty-to-conspiring-to-murder-in-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/489475\/","title":{"rendered":"Two men plead guilty to conspiring to murder in Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two men have pleaded guilty before the Central Criminal Court in Dublin to conspiring to murder another man in west Dublin over four years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Jason Dunne and Craig Hayes both entered guilty pleas today to one count each of conspiracy to commit the murder of Thomas McDonnell on a date between 28 November and 3 December 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The men will be sentenced next month.<\/p>\n<p>Dunne, 35, of Cedarbrook Place, Ballyfermot, was arraigned in person before the court in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>His co-accused Hayes, 27, of Cushlawn Park, Tallaght, appeared by video-link and was arraigned on the same charge.<\/p>\n<p>They have both been remanded to 10 July for sentencing; Hayes in custody and Dunne on continuing bail.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Justice Paul McDermott was told that a trial date set for 5 October this year could be vacated.<\/p>\n<p>The men initially appeared before Tallaght District Court earlier this year charged with the attempted murder of Mr McDonnell at Cookstown Lane in Tallaght on 3 December 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men have pleaded guilty before the Central Criminal Court in Dublin to conspiring to murder another man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-489475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489475","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=489475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}