Ex-hurling icon had admitted to cancer scam

FORMER Kilkenny hurler DJ Carey's sentencing hearing on fraud charges was adjourned yesterday as the court was told he had been hospitalised.

- BY NICOLA DONNELLY

The 54-year-old had previously admitted defrauding several people out of money by falsely claiming he had cancer.

Carey, who pleaded guilty to 10 counts of dishonestly inducing people to pay him money, is currently in Portiuncula University Hospital in Galway, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard.

Among those conned included billionaire businessman Denis O'Brien, Owen and Ann Conway, Mark and Sharon Kelly, Aidan Mulligan, Tony Griffin and Christy Browne, Thomas Butler, Jeffrey Howes, Noel Tynan and Edwin Carey.