{"id":517778,"date":"2026-06-25T13:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T13:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/517778\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T13:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T13:26:13","slug":"limerick-man-jailed-after-boasting-about-crime-spree-on-tiktok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/517778\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick man jailed after boasting about crime spree on TikTok"},"content":{"rendered":"

A judge has imposed a 12-year prison sentence on a Limerick man who he said gloated about the distress he caused to his victims on a public TikTok account called \u2018Munster Crime Gang\u2019.<\/p>\n

At Ennis Circuit Court, Judge Francis Comerford has imposed cumulative sentences of 29 years and nine months on three Limerick men, including Eddie Carey (31) of De Vere Court, John Carew Park, Limerick, for a crime spree across Clare, Galway and Limerick during 2024.<\/p>\n

In this case, Judge Comerford imposed a prison term of 12 years on Carey and suspended the final four years and three months, resulting in seven years and nine months to be served in jail by Carey and back-dated the sentence to January 2025.<\/p>\n

Judge Comerford imposed a 12-year-three-month sentence on co-accused Owen Casey (29) of Salvia Court, Keyes Park, Southill, Limerick, and suspended the final four years and nine months, resulting in seven years and six months to be served in jail and backdated the prison sentence to April 2025<\/p>\n

Judge Comerford imposed a five-year and eight month prison term on Tyreke Casey Curtin (25) of Caisle\u00e1n na hAbhann, Castletroy, Limerick, with no part of that sentence suspended and backdated the prison sentence to September 2025.<\/p>\n

The three accused were involved in theft, unauthorised taking, residential burglaries, commercial burglaries and handling of vehicles at premises in Clare, Limerick and Galway from October 2023 to January 6th, 2025.<\/p>\n

In one offence, the Co Clare GAA club of All-Ireland winning hurling player and manager, Brian Lohan, Wolfe Tones in Shannon suffered cumulative losses of \u20ac47,380 arising from a burglary committed by the three Limerick men in July 2024.<\/p>\n

Judge Comerford said that an aggravating factor in the case was there was gloating at the distress the accused caused to their victims on social media and this was primarily by Eddie Carey, who, he said, made pronouncements on his ‘Munster Crime Gang’ account.<\/p>\n

In evidence, Det Garda Aoife O\u2019Malley said that during the period of offending, Carey asked a family member to set up a public TikTok account called \u2018Munster Crime Gang\u2019 where images and videos of stolen vehicles were uploaded to.<\/p>\n

Judge Comerford said that there was a complete alienation and disengagement by the three from any harm they were causing.<\/p>\n

Judge Comerford said that all three accused had tragic enough starts in life and said that Casey first came to Garda attention at the age of 10.<\/p>\n

Judge Comerford said that he could not understand how the accused, who are fathers, would act in a way that would harm their own children by them being sent away to prison.<\/p>\n

Judge Comerford said that the criminal offences were not offending of criminal masterminds.<\/p>\n

Judge Comerford said that the offending did not involve violence but said that the offending did include two rampages of commercial burglaries across two days in 2024.<\/p>\n

In the case, Carey, Casey and Casey Curtin carried out the burglary at Wolfe Tones that was one of seven burglaries the three pleaded guilty to on one day alone on July 9th 2024.<\/p>\n

The other burglaries took place at Oran Tan, Castle Street, Oranmore; Gala Chinese, Castle Street, Oranmore; Hair Symphony, Clarinbridge; News and Views Bridge St, Gort, Daybreak, Crusheen, and Poppy Seed Caf\u00e9, Clarinbridge.<\/p>\n

In evidence, Det Garda O\u2019Malley said that during the 2:18am Wolfe Tones burglary significant damage was caused by the removal of the club safe which resulted in \u20ac16,000 damage to the bar counter at the club.<\/p>\n

Det O\u2019Malley said that the club safe cost \u20ac7,000 to replace and she said that the safe was recovered on July 15th from Croom and was completely burned out.<\/p>\n

Det O\u2019Malley said that \u20ac12,380 in cash was removed from the safe while the cost of the temporary closure of the clubhouse for a number of days was put at \u20ac12,000.<\/p>\n

Det O\u2019Malley said that Owen Casey lost the tip of a baby finger as the burglars placed the stolen safe into the back of their vehicle at the main entrance to the clubhouse.<\/p>\n

Det O\u2018Malley said that Casey\u2019s blood spilt onto the steps outside the main entrance of the club, and in an effort to get rid of any DNA evidence Eddie Carey poured fuel onto the steps and then set it alight.<\/p>\n

CCTV footage of Carey setting the fuel on fire was played to the court, and Det O\u2019Malley said that despite the fire, garda\u00ed were able to retrieve DNA evidence of Mr Casey from the scene.<\/p>\n

Twelve separate victim impact statements were read out to the court by counsel for the State, Sarah Jane Comerford (instructed by State Solicitor for Clare, Aisling Casey), arising from the trio\u2019s crime spree at locations in Galway, Clare and Limerick starting in October 2023 to January 2025.<\/p>\n

In the victim impact statement provided by Wolfe Tones, club Cathaoirleach, Gear\u00f3id de Buitl\u00e9ir along Amanda ni h\u00d3g\u00e1in and Jake \u00d3 Breasl\u00e1in stated that the \u201cclubhouse and bar facility that was targeted is a vital source of income for the club\u201d.<\/p>\n

They said that \u201cto arrive and witness the scale of damage caused has left a lasting sense of shock, anger and upset amongst those individuals and across the wider club community.\u201d<\/p>\n

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They said that the club has been forced to put in place a professional security response service and \u201cthis represents an ongoing and indefinite cost that did not previously exist. These are funds that would otherwise have been invested in our underage teams and community initiative\u201d.<\/p>\n

“In real terms, this incident has diverted resources away from young people in our community – away from coaching, equipment and development – and into covering costs arising from criminal damage.\u201d<\/p>\n

They stated that Wolfe Tones na Sionna GAA Club \u201cis a source of pride in Shannon\u2026this incident has caused genuine distress and disappointment among members, families and supporters\u201d.<\/p>\n

In the case, Casey Curtin pleaded guilty to 23 offences, while Carey pleaded guilty to 42 offences and Casey pleaded guilty to 40 offences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A judge has imposed a 12-year prison sentence on a Limerick man who he said gloated about the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-517778","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\/517778","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=517778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}