Patrick ‘Fishy’ Fitzgerald sentenced to seven years for facilitating criminal organisation

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Patrick ‘Fishy’ Fitzgerald pleaded guilty to facilitating a criminal organisation after initially facing an attempted murder charge. In July 2025, the Central Criminal Court sentenced him to seven years in prison and ordered that term to run consecutively to a 7.5-year sentence he was already serving for aggravated burglary.

Fitzgerald later withdrew his appeal against the seven-year sentence after the Court of Appeal reminded him of the full range of its powers.