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'It's hard to think how his life could be worse now... he's genuinely destroyed it'

Irish Daily Star

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November 06, 2025

Pundit Brolly: Carey a 'lost soul & pariah'

- BY ROBERT HYNES

'It's hard to think how his life could be worse now... he's genuinely destroyed it'

GAA pundit Joe Brolly said disgraced hurling legend DJ Carey is “a pariah now until the day he dies”.

The 54-year-old ex-Kilkenny star was handed a five-and-a-half year jail term after he admitted defrauding family, friends and fans to hand over nearly €400,000, claiming he needed cancer treatment in the US.

Speaking on his Free State Podcast this week, Brolly said: “He's a lost soul.

I'm not a sanctimonious person or self-righteous person.

“What he did was outrageous and it involved adopting a life of lies and deliberately exploiting people using those lies.

“Tunderstand all of that and he has received a very heavy punishment. But for me, he’s a lost soul.

“Here he is this evening in a prison cell, a pariah now until the day he dies, utterly isolated.

“You will say, He is paying for his sins, and that may be so. But for me, it’s a human tragedy. There is no redemption here. He is too well-known, he is too isolated.

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