‘Dear DJ, I wanted to let you know there are no hard feelings and I forgive you’: How the web of deceit spun by Carey unravelled

In Eimear Ní Bhraonáin’s new book ‘The Dodger’, she finds some sympathy from the victims of the Kilkenny hurling legend’s scams

DJ Carey arrives at the Criminal Courts of Justice Dublin earlier this year. Photo: Collins Courts

As prologues go, the opening pages of The Dodger: DJ Carey and the Great Betrayal couldn’t cut any quicker to the chase.

Tom Brennan, a Laois businessman and one of the main protagonists as the story unfolded, sat outside a house in an estate on the outskirts of Kilkenny city watching one of the most celebrated hurlers of all time emerge with a dark-haired younger woman and walk up the road.