DJ Carey's first Kilkenny All-Ireland GAA medal sold for 'undisclosed sum'

Whyte’s Auctioneers has confirmed that DJ Carey’s 1992 All-Ireland medal that he won with Kilkenny, which had been offered for sale by private treaty, has been sold.

“The medal was sold privately for an undisclosed sum,” Ian Whyte told Kilkenny Live.

Whyte’s said it had no further information to share with the media and did not provide further details surrounding the sale.

The medal dates from Kilkenny’s victory over Cork in the 1992 All-Ireland senior hurling final and was the first of five senior All-Ireland medals won by Carey during his inter-county career.

The medal had previously been offered for sale through Whyte’s by private treaty.

The Irish Independent reported last week that it had been put on the market at €10,000 and that Whyte’s had received considerable interest, with offers exceeding that figure.

According to the same report, the medal had been given by Carey to a family who had provided him with financial assistance after he falsely claimed that he required money for cancer treatment.

The newspaper reported that the family intended that money raised from the sale was to go towards helping others who had suffered financially as a result of Carey’s deception.

Whyte’s has not disclosed the amount ultimately paid for the medal.

Carey is currently serving a five-and-a-half-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to 10 deception charges involving 13 complainants.

At his sentencing at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court last November, the court heard that his overall offending involved 22 people and almost €400,000.

Carey, a native of Gowran, won five senior All-Ireland medals with Kilkenny in 1992, 1993, 2000, 2002 and 2003.

He captained Kilkenny to the Liam MacCarthy Cup in 2003 and won nine All-Star awards during his inter-county career.