Kilkenny hurling legend DJ Carey charged with fraud offences

Kilkenny hurling legend DJ Carey has appeared in court in Dublin this morning charged with 21 fraud-related offences.

The five-time All-Ireland winner was served with a book of evidence at Blanchardstown District Court. He stands accused of inducing people to pay him money by fraudulently claiming to have cancer.

Most of the charges are that on unknown dates at unknown locations within the state, the defendant "did dishonestly by deception" induce a variety of named individuals "to do an act  to wit make a monetary payment to you after you fraudulently claimed to have cancer and needed finances to obtain treatment for same with the intention of making a gain for yourself or causing loss to another". Contrary to Section 6 of the Criminal  Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences) Act 2001.

Two of the charges are of using "an instrument which was and which you knew or believed to be, a false instrument with the intention of inducing another person to accept it as genuine and by reason of so accepting the said instrument to do some act or to make some ommission or to provide some service, to the prejudice of that person or any other person”.

Mr Carey made no reply to any of the charges, and he has not yet entered pleas to the charges.