{"id":590352,"date":"2026-08-11T22:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T22:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/590352\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T22:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T22:08:10","slug":"dj-careys-first-all-ireland-medal-sold-at-auction-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/590352\/","title":{"rendered":"DJ Carey\u2019s first All-Ireland medal sold at auction \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The first All-Ireland senior hurling medal won by jailed former hurler DJ Carey (55) has been sold at auction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The medal was put up for auction by a couple who had been conned by the former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/kilkenny-gaa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/kilkenny-gaa\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kilkenny<\/a> hurler and convicted fraudster. They had been given the medal by Carey many years earlier after offering him help.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">They said their intention was to divide the proceeds of the sale between two individuals who had been duped by Carey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThey are living in dire circumstances as a direct result of their dealings with him,\u201d said the medal owner in a statement to journalist Dermot Crowe. \u201cIt is my hope that the sale of this medal will benefit them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Whyte\u2019s Auctioneers confirmed Carey\u2019s 1992 All-Ireland medal won with Kilkenny, which had been offered for sale by private treaty, has been sold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThe medal was sold privately for an undisclosed sum,\u201d confirmed a spokesperson for Whytes Auctioneers. It was reported last week that a price in the region of \u20ac10,000 was expected for the medal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Carey suffered a dramatic fall from grace by falsely claiming he had cancer and needed money for medical treatment in the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Carey received a 5\u00bd-year prison sentence last year after pleading guilty to 10 deception charges involving 13 complainants. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">At his sentencing in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, the court heard his overall offending involved 22 people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The total amount defrauded was not disclosed, though victim Noel Tynan said he gave Carey \u20ac10,000 after believing the claims that he was seriously ill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Carey is being held at Mountjoy Prison, Dublin. He played for the Young Irelands club in Gowran, Co Kilkenny and won five All-Irelands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He later won All-Irelands in 1993, 2000, 2002 and 2003. He also won nine All-Star awards during a glittering inter-county career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first All-Ireland senior hurling medal won by jailed former hurler DJ Carey (55) has been sold at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1965,42852,61,60,12969,43,155222],"class_list":["post-590352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-hurling","tag-dj-carey","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kilkenny","tag-news","tag-whyte-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590352","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=590352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}