Dismissing the appeal, Mr Justice Birmingham said the court was in no doubt that the sentence imposed by the Special Criminal Court was one that fell within the available range

The former Sinn Féin councillor is appealing the severity of his four-year sentence for facilitating the Regency attack

Gerard Hutch is seeking his legal costs and the hearing on the application, which the State is opposing, was originally listed for Friday of this week. 

Gerard Hutch was acquitted last month of the murder of Kinahan cartel member David Byrne at the Regency Hotel

The Sinn Fein leader has said the former councillor would not have been a member of the party if she had known about his criminal ties.

The Dail was taking statements on organised crime.

The Taoiseach called on the party to vote to renew the Special Criminal Court in June instead of abstaining

Amid dramatic scenes at the Special Criminal Court, Gerard 'The Monk' Hutch is a free man after being acquitted of murder

Dowdall was serving an eight-year sentence for offences including false imprisonment when he was charged with the murder.

Two long-time friends of the Hutch family have been found guilty at the Special Criminal Court of acting as getaway drivers during the notorious Regency Hotel attack in 2016, during which Kinahan Cartel member David Byrne was murdered

Hutch is accused of the murder of David Byrne, 33, at a crowded boxing weigh-in event on February 5th, 2016

Mary Lou McDonald said former Sinn Féin councillor Jonathan Dowdall was never a friend of hers.

In December of last year, Dowdall launched his appeal against his four-year jail-term for facilitating the Hutch gang in the notorious murder of Byrne and had a hearing date for the appeal fixed for February 20th. 

Mr Hutch's barrister senior counsel Brendan Grehan argued the case against his client stands or falls on the evidence of the "proven and admitted liar and perjurer" Jonathan Dowdall

It is expected that Mr Hutch's co-accused Jason Bonney will call witnesses to give evidence on his behalf later

After 13 weeks of evidence the State is expected to conclude its case on Tuesday against Gerard Hutch and his two co-accused

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Jonathan Dowdall told the Special Criminal Court that Gerry Hutch allegedly told him he was involved in the shooting of David Byrne during a meeting between the pair in February 2016

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Det Supt Gallagher gave evidence on Monday about the shooting of Gary Hutch, Patrick Hutch and Edward Hutch along with the shooting in Spain of UK boxer Jamie Moore

Ex-Sinn Féin councillor asked a garda "is there any way out" and "if him and his family could get into the Witness Protection Programme" in the days following his arrest

The prosecuting counsel went on to say that the other issue which had caused the delay was that a garda witness was not available this morning

Alison O'RiordanFormer Sinn Féin councillor Jonathan Dowdall, a former co-accused of Gerard 'The Monk' Hutch who has turned State's witness, has vowed he will rebuild his ...

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Mr Hutch's defence counsel Brendan Grehan SC will continue his cross-examination of Jonathan Dowdall

Asked about his reason for not handing over the electrical circuits to the republicans, which he agreed were bomb timers, Dowdall said it was because they did not exist.

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Dowdall denied he wanted to "blow up" lifelong criminal Trevor Byrne "while he slept in his bed at night" or suggesting that the wife of jailed criminal Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh should be kidnapped at a dancing event.

The defence's cross-examination of former Sinn Féin councillor Jonathan Dowdall continued on Friday

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"My mother is being rang by people who she was kind to when kids, telling a 62-year-old woman she's dead, that my children are dead. This is a whole different level and this is why nobody comes in and gives evidence," Dowdall told the court.

The Sinn Féin leader said she did not believe the attention on her party and its links to Jonathan Dowdall had been a 'setback'

Dowdall on Thursday admitted he was "reckless" when he helped book a room at the Regency Hotel for one of the raiders on the night before the murder of Kinahan Cartel member David Byrne

Ex-Sinn Féin councillor Jonathan Dowdall has claimed that he was "set up" for the murder of Kinahan Cartel member David Byrne

Dowdall was accused of telling ‘two big lies’ in his evidence.

Jonathan Dowdall, the key witness in the Regency Hotel murder trial, said he agreed to approach republicans in Northern Ireland to mediate in the Hutch/Kinahan dispute

Judges at the Special Criminal Court have ruled that the evidence to be given by former co-accused and now State's witness Jonathan Dowdall is admissible in the trial, despite defence objections

Brendan Grehan SC, for Gerard Hutch, submitted today that Dowdall had the Director of Public Prosecutions "over a barrel"

Defence lawyer Brendan Grehan SC is challenging the admissibility of evidence to be given by Dowdall

Former Sinn Féin Councillor Jonathan Dowdall told gardaí that he felt under threat from "the Hutchs and that organisation"

Gerry Hutch's defence team had sought to have the recordings of his conversations with Mr Dowdall while they were travelling in Northern Ireland ruled inadmissible

Nothing in Criminal Justice Act 2009 to suggest it has scope beyond borders of State according to Hutch's defence team

Prosecution counsel agreed it was the State's case that, once a surveillance device is placed and retrieved lawfully on a car within this jurisdiction, "then it does not matter a damn where the vehicle was in the meantime"

The Special Criminal Court has heard a recording of Regency Hotel murder accused Gerard 'The Monk' Hutch tell ex-Sinn Féin Councillor Jonathan Dowdall that the Kinahan cartel want "to be the biggest gang in Europe".

The Special Criminal Court is hearing recording of conversations between Jonathan Dowdall and murder accused, Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch

Gerard 'The Monk' Hutch is on trial at the Special Criminal Court accused of the murder of David Byrne in 2016

Earlier, the Regency Hotel murder trial heard that gardaí had recovered records from a tracker device deployed on Dowdall's jeep which were believed to have been destroyed

The three Special Criminal Court judges will listen to 10 hours of recordings

The non-jury court heard from defence counsel that gardai destroyed records from a tracking device that had been placed on Dowdall's Toyota Land Cruiser SUV when he is alleged to have driven murder accused Gerard Hutch north for a meeting with republicans in the aftermath of the shooting.