David Duffy pleads guilty to helping murder attempt

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David Duffy pleaded guilty to helping a criminal organisation in an attempted murder at the Special Criminal Court on 15 April 2021. The victim, James Gately, was shot at a petrol station on Dublin’s Clonshaugh Road in 2017.

Duffy admitted knowing about the organisation and contributing to activities intended to enhance its ability to commit the serious offence, namely Gately’s murder, between 7 December 2016 and 6 April 2017. He was remanded on bail for sentencing in June.