Jonathan Dowdall jailed for facilitating David Byrne murder

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Jonathan Dowdall was jailed for four years for facilitating the murder of David Byrne by the Special Criminal Court, reported on 14 November 2022.

In a separate part of the trial, Inspector Padraig Boyce said the search warrant for Dowdall’s home was based on information that firearms and explosives were being stored there for the IRA. He said the information came from Detective Superintendent Tom Maguire, and he did not know its original source.

Boyce said he obtained the warrant on 4 March 2016 and executed it shortly after 8pm on 9 March, about an hour after three AK-47 assault rifles were recovered from Shane Rowan’s car near Slane, County Meath.