McGovern (39), with a previous address at Kildare Road, Crumlin, Dublin 12 is charged with the murder of Noel Kirwan on December 22, 2016 at St Ronan’s Drive, Clondalkin in Dublin. He was served with a book of evidence in relation to this charge earlier this year.<\/p>\n
Dominic McGinn SC, for the Director of Public Prosecutions, told the three-judge, non-jury court today that one book of evidence had already been served on the accused in July. He said a second book was now ready to be served.<\/p>\n
The book of evidence served on the accused today covers further offences with which McGovern is charged, including directing the activities of a criminal organisation in connection with the same murder between October 20 2016 and December 22, 2016.<\/p>\n
He is also charged with directing the activities of a criminal organisation in connection with the surveillance of James Gately in preparation for the commission of an indictable offence between October 17, 2015 and April 6, 2017.<\/p>\n
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Noel \u2018Duck Egg\u2019 Kirwan beside Gerard Hutch<\/p>\n
Another charge alleges that between October 20 and December 22, 2016 he contributed to or participated in activity intending or being reckless as to whether such activity would facilitate a criminal organisation in the murder of Mr Kirwan.<\/p>\n
He faces a similar charge of facilitating a criminal organisation in a conspiracy to murder James Gately.<\/p>\n
He was previously extradited from the United Arab Emirates to face the charges, but in June, lawyers for McGovern raised a concern about the legality of his extradition to Ireland.<\/p>\n
At the Special Criminal Court today, Se\u00e1n Guerin SC, for McGovern, said there was an issue with disclosure relating to the lawfulness of McGovern\u2019s extradition which has been \u201coutstanding for a while\u201d. He said the prosecution has now indicated that this would be ready by Friday.<\/p>\n
Ms Justice Karen O\u2019Connor, sitting with Judge Sarah Berkeleyand Judge David McHugh, asked the lawyers what the court was being asked to do in relation to setting a date.<\/p>\n
Mr McGinn requested that the matter be put back for two weeks.<\/p>\n
Mr Guerin asked that his client appear by video link on that occasion.<\/p>\n
Ms Justice O\u2019Connor set a further hearing date of Friday, October 17 with McGovern to appear by video link on that date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"McGovern (39), with a previous address at Kildare Road, Crumlin, Dublin 12 is charged with the murder of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-65401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65401","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=65401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}