On Sunday, 4 March 2018 at a special sitting of Dundalk District Court, 27-year-old Aaron Brady from New Road, Crossmaglen, County Armagh, was charged with the capital murder of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe in the course of his duty. Detective Inspector Pat Marry said that when the charge was put to Mr Brady he said: "I strongly deny any involvement in the murder of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe." He was remanded in custody to appear before Cloverhill District Court on 9 March. Gardai have vowed to pursue those involved "to the ends of the earth".
2020 capital murder trial On 29 January 2020, the trial of Aaron Brady began in Dublin, with Mr Justice Michael White presiding over a jury composed of eight men and seven women. Brady pleaded not guilty to the capital murder of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe on 25 January 2013 at Lordship credit union, and also the armed robbery of approximately €7,000 in cash and
cheques during the same incident. Prosecution counsel Brendan Grehan SC outlined to the court how the highly organised robbery was carried out in only 58 seconds, when four young men wearing
balaclavas jumped over a wall as a convoy of credit union workers cars attempted to leave the Lordship credit union car park. Two of them were armed, and they ran directly to the unmarked Garda car where Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe was killed instantly by a shotgun blast to the head. After smashing the windows of the credit union worker's cars to grab the money, the men fled in a getaway car that was deliberately blocking the entrance of the car park.
Prosecution Evidence - witnesses to the robbery Detective Garda Eoin Conway testified to chief Prosecutor Lorcan Staines how he had taken crime scene photos at Lordship credit union a few hours after the robbery, and described how Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe's
Sig Sauer P226 sidearm was still in its belt holster as his dead body lay beside the
Toyota Avensis unmarked Garda car. Detective Garda Gareth Kenna presented CCTV footage of the robbery itself, which showed the unmarked Garda car arriving at the Lordship credit union at 9:25pm along with a
Nissan Qashqai being driven by staff from the Cooley credit union. After a Lordship credit union worker exited the building and got into a
Mazda car, all three vehicles then drove towards the car park exit so as to drive in convoy to Dundalk. Detective Kenna described to the jury how a vehicle suddenly blocked the exit and at the same time 2 men ran towards the Mazda. At the same time, another two men, one of whom was armed with a long barreled
shotgun, ran towards the unmarked Garda car. CCTV footage showed how the individual with the shotgun then recoiled backwards several feet, appears to almost to hit the ground, then returns to the unmarked Garda car. Retired Detective Joe Ryan, who was driving the unmarked Garda car on that night, testified how Detective Donohoe got out of the car to find out why the car park exit was being blocked, and at the same time Ryan spotted the armed man running towards their car. Ryan described how he realized they were being attacked and as he attempted to draw his holstered sidearm he heard a deafening bang and saw a blinding flash of light, followed by his car door being opened and a shotgun being aimed at him. He described the gunman with the shotgun as being in his early to mid-20s and wearing a dark tracksuit and balaclava mask, with a slim build and an estimated height of 6 feet. The second gunman was similarly dressed, armed with a
semi-automatic handgun, and had an estimated height of five feet seven inches. The gunmen then ran to the car blocking the exit and drove off towards Dundalk, at which point Ryan called for emergency assistance for Detective Donohoe. According to Detective Garda Gareth Kenna, the total amount of time from when the vehicle stopped to block the exit of the credit union to when it drove off again was 58 seconds. Credit Union worker Pat Bellew testified that when he got in his car he suddenly noticed a number of men jumping over the back wall of the credit union, one of whom smashed his car window and demanded money. Credit Union worker Bernadette McShane also told the court how she witnessed Detective Donohoe fall to the ground after hearing a loud bang, before some men smashed her car windows and demanded money from her. Credit Union worker Mary Hanlon testified how when she attempted to leave the car park on the night of the robbery, a
Volkswagen Passat driven by a woman with blonde hair and a
beanie hat suddenly drove across the entrance blocking her in, and at first she presumed the driver had stopped to take a phone call. Hanlon described how she then heard a series of loud bangs from behind her, followed by two armed men running past her passenger door and getting into the Passat before it drove off.
Prosecution Evidence - witnesses to the robbery aftermath Stephen Toal testified to the court how he had been driving towards the Ballymascanlon roundabout soon after the robbery when he was suddenly overtaken at high speed by a Volkswagen Passat heading in the same direction. Garda Finbar Gurhy testified that he was on duty at the Garda cordon around Lordship at 3am the morning after the robbery when he stopped a BMW driving along the Carlingford Road. Asking why he was in the area, the driver informed Garda Gurhy that he lived nearby and was returning to his house in Bellurgan. The passenger of the car was later identified as Aaron Brady. Garda Inspector John Moroney testified that he was directing a team of about 30 Gradaí searching the area around Lordship credit union the morning after the robbery, when at 12:35pm he observed a BMW car driving towards Ballymacscanlon stopping at a checkpoint. Insp Moroney recognised the front seat passenger as Aaron Brady, as he was prosecuting him for a different criminal matter at Dundalk Circuit Court, and he decided to separate him and the driver of the car for questioning. According to Insp Moroney, Brady was calm and relaxed under questioning, and when he asked Brady to account for his movements the previous day he claimed to have visited the Superbites fast food restaurant in
Crossmaglen with the driver of the car around 4:30pm, and then he was dropped off at his girlfriend's house near
Culloville around 7pm. Brady said he stayed there until around 3am, when the driver of the BMW picked him up again and they both returned to his house in Bellurgan. Insp Moroney asserted that Brady claimed to have not heard about the shooting of Garda Adrian Donohoe until he woke up that morning, which the Inspector found strange as he would have had to enter the Garda cordon around Lordship the night before to return to his friend's house in Bellurgan. Insp Moroney then spoke to the driver of the BMW, who seemed to him to be nervous under questioning, and asked him to account for his whereabouts the previous evening. The BMW driver claimed he dropped Brady off at his house between 8pm and 9pm, and after calling into another friend in Crossmaglen for about an hour he picked up Brady again and dropped him of at his girlfriend's house sometime before 10pm. Insp Moroney agreed with the prosecution that there was a significant difference between the two accounts and that the timings didn't match up.
Prosecution Evidence - events leading to the robbery {{OSM Location map|frame=yes|frame-align=right|frame-width=300|frame-height=500|coord=|zoom=9| Detective Garda Gareth Kenna asserted to the court that the burnt out car found near the Cumsons Road in County Armagh was the same Volkswagen Passat used as the getaway vehicle during the robbery at Lordship, and that inquiries confirmed that the burnt out Passat had been stolen from
Clogherhead a couple of days before the incident at Lordship credit union. CCTV footage from the area showed a car similar to a BMW 5 Series slowly cruising the streets of Clogherhead at 3am on the morning of 27 January 2013, and the Passat was stolen shortly afterwards from the nearby Hillcrest estate. The court was also shown CCTV footage taken from the Ballymacscanlon petrol station at 1:54am on the same day, which showed a BMW 5 Series stopping for fuel. The BMW was being driven by a man referred to during the trial for legal reasons as "Suspect A". Prosecutor Lorcan Staines SC remarked to the court that the only logical reason for someone to fill their car with fuel in the middle of the night was they were about to go for a long drive. and a car similar to a Passat driving north to
Annagassan via backroads in convoy with what looked like Suspect A's BMW at around 3:40am. Finally, a car similar to a BMW was observed to arrive at Suspect A's home at 4:51am. Gillian Burns, who worked at McCaughey's service station outside
Castleblayney, testified that she knew Brady as a regular customer, and at 12:34pm on the day of the robbery at Lordship she saw Brady eating lunch at the service station's deli counter in the company of two other men (who were later identified as Suspect A and another man referred to during the trial for legal reasons as "Suspect B"). McGoey asserted the fact that the phones all went inactive and then reactivated over a very similar time period was "unusual", adding that while Brady had previously claimed to have barely known Suspect B phone records proved they had been in constant contact over the month of January 2013.
Prosecution Evidence - Brady "confessions" after the robbery Molly Staunton testified via video link from New York City that she had previously shared an apartment with Brady in
Woodlawn Heights, and that in July 2016 Brady told her that he "murdered a cop in Ireland" during a drunken rant. However, when defence counsel Fiona Murphy SC put it to Staunton that Brady had never admitted to her that he had actually shot Garda Detective Adrian Donohoe, and that he said he was in fear of arrest because An Garda Síochána themselves were accusing him of shooting a Garda, Staunton replied "That is correct". Despite defence objections Staunton was thereafter declared to be a
hostile witness, When the live feed resumed a short time later, Staunton clarified that the apartment was now empty and she could proceed with her testimony. Regarding what Brady said to her in the summer of 2016, Staunton said he was worried about the police raiding the apartment, as they were looking for him. As far as confessing to murdering a Garda, although he might have said "something along those lines" Staunton did not hear him actually admitting to it. Brendan Grehan SC then played a video recording of Staunton giving a sworn statement to two Garda detectives in New York on 29 August 2017, where Staunton states that Brady definitely admitted to murdering a cop. Staunton then stated to the court that after watching the video she wished to stand by her earlier statement and Brady had admitted to her that he had murdered a cop. When asked by Brady's defence team if the man in her apartment had cut the earlier video feed, Staunton claimed that she herself had closed the laptop. Daniel Cahill also testified via video link from America, and described how Brady had told him on multiple occasions that he had shot a Garda officer during a "robbery gone wrong" while drinking in the Bronx pub he was a barman of. Cahill confirmed to the court that he had arrived in America on a
90 day visa in 2013, but stayed on to work as a bartender. Cahill clarified that he had since married an American citizen, but as of the summer of 2019 he had not filed any paperwork to apply for status to remain in the USA. Homeland Security Special Agent Mary Ann Wade also gave evidence via video link from America, where she confirmed her presence at Cahill's house on the day of his arrest. Special Agent Wade denied accusations from Brady's legal team that she told Cahill he could remain in the USA if he made a statement against Brady, however she refused to confirm or deny if Cahill was arrested by Homeland Security on 25 July 2019 on suspicion of overstaying his
90 day visa. Inspector Mark Phillips confirmed to the court that a
marijuana growing operation and a quantity of
steroids were discovered at Cahill's home on the day of his arrest, however the local Assistant
District Attorney had decided not to press criminal charges in relation to either of these discoveries. Immigration lawyer Kerry Bretz told the court via-video link from the US it was "very unusual" that no deportation proceedings were launched against Cahill, and that he had never heard of a visa overstayer being released and then instructed to file a visa application at a later date by Homeland Security before. Bretz attested that those who violate the terms of their 90-day visa have no right to appeal their case, and once detained by Homeland Security they are usually deported immediately via the next commercial flight to their country of origin, however Homeland Security agents do have discretion not to execute any deportation order. Bretz added that it was very odd that Homeland Security agents left Cahill at a local police precinct in the knowledge that he wasn't going to be prosecuted, rather than processing him for removal from the US.
Defence submissions In what was described by some media outlets as an unusual decision, Brady likewise denied being involved in the theft of the alleged getaway car in Clogherhead. Brady claimed to have moved to America in April 2013 to escape adverse media attention, after a pixelated image taken from his
Facebook page was splashed over the newspapers in articles relating to the robbery at Lordship. Brady testified that he at first worked for Suspect A at his business in
Boston, however they had a falling out in February 2014 and they had not spoken since. Brady denied ever telling Daniel Cahill that he had shot Adrian Donohoe. Brady testified that on the day of the robbery he was hanging out at Suspect A's house in Bellurgan, where they ate
chicken curry and played video games. They both then picked up Suspect B at his house and drove him to
Crossmaglen PSNI station so he could sign on at around 7:20pm. Afterwards they left Suspect B home again and Brady went to a house he was renting nearby, before he traveled to a yard on
Concession Road to move cubes of diesel waste. About 90 minutes later Suspect A picked him up from the yard and dropped him off at his then girlfriend's house in Culloville around 11pm. Brady claimed he stayed with her until 3am that morning, when Suspect A again picked him up and they both returned to his house in Bellurgan, where he then fell asleep until the next morning. Brady admitted lying to Gardaí in the aftermath of the robbery at Lordship, and asking his then girlfriend to give a false statement also, regarding his movements on the night in question. However he asserted this was due to him being under curfew for the unlawful taking of a vehicle, the terms of which directed him to remain at his parents' house every night between 9pm and 7am. Grehan countered that it was nonsensical for Suspect A to drive past both the service station at Ballymascanlon and then his own house to make a 2 kilometer journey to the Bellurgan service station simply to purchase a couple of bottles of water. When asked about mobile phone traffic between his phone and that of Suspect B on the night of the robbery, which included 8 missed calls just before 8:30pm and 2 short phone calls within a few minutes of each other around 10:50pm, Brady claimed to have no recollection of what they spoke about or the reason for so many earlier unsuccessful calls. When challenged that his ex-girlfriend had given evidence about Brady telling her about Suspect A previously stealing a car, Brady claimed he could not remember that conversation but he would never had made such an accusation against Suspect A. Brady confirmed that he had asked his ex-girlfriend to lie to police about his whereabouts on the night of the robbery, and that he had also been untruthful when speaking to Inspector John Moroney at a checkpoint the morning after the robbery when asked about his movements the night before. However, Brady denied telling Inspector Moroney he was unaware that Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe had been shot the previous night, confirming that he first became aware of the incident when he saw it on Facebook at 10:45pm the night before at his then girlfriend's house, and he then seen a report about it on RTE News shortly after that. Brady claimed he wanted to challenge Inspector Moroney's testimony but his legal team did not act upon his instructions. Regarding Molly Staunton's evidence, Brady claimed he was upset in their shared apartment on the night in question as two Garda had visited his wife's home in
County Kerry and
slandered his name. Brady also denied saying he murdered Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe or anyone else to her, asserting that the word "cop" wasn't in his vocabulary and he would never refer to a police man in those terms. In response to Daniel Cahill's evidence, Brady claimed that on St Patrick's Day 2015 he was assaulted by Cahill in relation to a personal dispute, after he broke into Brady's bedroom with a group of other men.
Closing statements Addressing the jury at the conclusion of the trial, Lorcan Staines SC described Brady as a "skilled and practised liar", who had taken part in the robbery at Lordship to cover thousands of euros in compensation he was required to pay from an earlier criminal case, and who had made the conscious decision to open fire on the Gardaí who were escorting the credit union workers that night. Although the case against Brady was based on
circumstantial evidence, Staines asserted that CCTV evidence around the theft of the Passat in Clogherhead, combined with the fact Brady's phone and the phones of other suspects in the robbery all went inactive at the same time around the time of the robbery, implied that an innocent occurrence of these events would be an extraordinary unlucky coincidence. Staines also highlighted how Brady and the other suspects also coincidently left Ireland shortly after the robbery, and how Molly Staunton, a witness with no motivation to lie, had given sworn testimony about Brady confessing to shooting a Garda. Staines summarised that individual events on their own could simply be a coincidence, however when all are stacked up together it was not reasonably possible for such a long series of strange events to innocently occur. O'Higgins SC also reminded the jury that the prosecution had to have proved their case
beyond reasonable doubt that the gunman knew before he opened fire that Adrian Donohoe was a Garda acting in the course of his duty at the time in order to convict Brady of capital murder. O'Higgins highlighted how the robber shouted at Donohoe's partner to "give me the f***ing money", and asked if this was consistent with the raiders knowing in advance that they were Garadí on duty and not credit union workers instead. O'Higgins SC then highlighted how CCTV footage of the robbery shows the individual who fired the fatal shot staggering backwards several feet from the recoil of the shotgun, which implied it was an
accidental discharge rather than a premeditated aimed shot, in which case an intention to kill was not proved and a verdict of
manslaughter would therefore be more appropriate.
Brady found guilty of capital murder On 10 August 2020, Brady was found guilty of the robbery of approximately €7,000 in cash and cheques outside Lordship Credit Union in
County Louth in 2013 by unanimous decision after 13 hours of
deliberations by the jury. Two days later, Brady was convicted of the capital murder of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe during the same armed robbery at Lordship by a
majority verdict of 11 to 1 after 20 hours of deliberations by the jury. Brady was thereafter sentenced to the mandatory term for capital murder of 40 years' imprisonment. Should he receive the maximum remission possible for good behaviour while in prison, he will be released no earlier than August 2050. He was also sentenced to 14 years for robbery, to run concurrently.
Witness intimidation Following Brady's murder conviction, detectives from the Serious Crime Review Team within the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation (
GNBCI), arrested eight suspects as part of an investigation into alleged witness intimidation and perverting the course of justice during Brady's trial. During the murder trial, a video was taken on a mobile phone of a witness statement included in the book of evidence, and the footage posted on social media, with threats added to this video against the witness. Trial judge Mr Justice Michael White described this as "the most outrageous contempt of court" he had ever seen. It was reported that the prosecution was aware of "very serious" attempts to intimidate its key witnesses and efforts to collapse the murder trial. Reportedly as a result of witnesses being interfered with and intimidated, five witnesses did not testify at the Central Criminal Court. Aaron Brady was among those arrested on suspicion of witness intimidation.
Aaron Brady conviction In April 2021, investigating detectives sent a file to the Director of Public Prosecutions recommending that Aaron Brady be charged in relation to the intimidation of witnesses during the Donohoe murder trial. On 11 April 2024, Aaron Brady pleaded guilty at the Special Criminal Court to a charge of perverting the course of justice, in relation to the recording of a video of Ronan Flynn giving a witness statement to Gardaí (Detective Inspector Mark Phillips, Detective Sergeant Paul Gill, and Sergeant Padraig O'Reilly) about Brady admitting to shooting Detective Garda Donohoe on three separate occasions. This video was thereafter spread on
social media during Brady's murder trial, with the presiding judge Mr Justice Michael White declaring it an attempt to intimidate Ronan Flynn along with other potential witnesses. After pleading guilty, Brady applied to have reporting restrictions imposed in case the fact he pleaded guilty would prejudice any future re-trial in the event his murder conviction (in which he maintains his innocence) was overturned as a result of any ongoing appeals. However, the court rejected his request as the
Irish Constitution dictated that justice must be administered in public, and Brady's legal team had not satisfied the court that his circumstances made him an exception to this rule.
Dean Byrne conviction On 11 April 2024, Dean Byrne pleaded not guilty at the Special Criminal Court to a charge of conspiring to pervert the course of justice, in relation to efforts to persuade Daniel Cahill not to give evidence against Aaron Brady at his trial. Prosecution counsel Lorcan Staines outlined to the court a number of incriminating text and audio messages recovered from a mobile phone discovered in Byrne's cell in
Mountjoy Prison which mentioned Daniel Cahill. Detective Inspector Mark Phillips later told the court that Ronan Flynn (who had given a witness statement against Brady in 2017) contacted him in July 2019 to complain he was receiving threatening messages and had been approached by an associate of Brady in New York City in relation to him giving evidence. Inspector Phillips further testified that Daniel Cahill had also been approached in a similar manner regarding him appearing as a witness for the prosecution. On 17 April 2024, Dean Byrne made a number of admissions via his legal team under Section 22 of the Criminal Justice Act (1984), specifically that: • the search of his cell in Mountjoy prison by Gardai was lawful • the seizure of a mobile phone during that search was lawful • Byrne's arrest in relation to conspiring to pervert the course of justice was lawful • the search warrants used by Gardai were lawfully obtained and executed • all evidence gathered was lawfully retained and preserved • Byrne had access to and had used the mobile phone seized by Gardai • the mobile phone contained photographs of witness statements provided to Gardai by Daniel Cahill • Byrne forwarded the witness statements photographs to a relative of Daniel Cahill Prosecution counsel Lorcan Staines described the admissions as significant, and that they would shorten the length of the trial dramatically (from an estimated 14 weeks to around 3 weeks). On 30 April 2024, Mountjoy prison officer David Sheridan described to the court how a
smartphone was discovered hidden under the sink of Dean Byrne's cell during a search. When examined, the phone contained messages between a
Facebook account under the name Dean Byrne and the account of a relative of Daniel Cahill. Gardai later obtained a court order to retrieve records directly from Facebook of all conversations between the two accounts. These messages were then outlined in court, which referred to Daniel Cahill agreeing to give evidence against Aaron Brady in court and included pictures of a witness statement given by Cahill to Irish authorities in a New York City police station in 2019. Detective Sergeant Peter Woods testified to the court that Dean Byrne was arrested in Mountjoy prison on 8 October 2020, and then brought to Mountjoy garda station for
interrogation. Byrne denied ownership of the phone discovered in his cell, instead insisting it belonged to the inmate who previously lived there. Byrne also denied all allegations put to him by Gardai regarding incriminating messages discovered on the phone. On 1 May 2024, defence lawyer Padraig Dwyer made an application to the court to dismiss all charges against his client Dean Byrne, claiming the charges against him were unclear and there was a complete lack of evidence of wrongdoing. Dwyer argued that Byrne was charged with attempting to "persuade" a witness not to give evidence, which was completely different from threatening them and was also not unlawful. Simultaneously, the authorities had not presented any evidence on who was doing the "persuasion" or how they were doing it, therefore they could not prove any criminal act had occurred. Prosecution lawyer Lorcan Staines countered that any sort of outside intervention in the judicial process is regarded as an intentional act, which perverts with the course of justice and is thus a criminal offense. On 7 May 2024, presiding judge Mr Justice Burns rejected the prosecution's assertion that all attempts to persuade a witness not to give evidence amounted to a criminal offense, as there were in fact some limited circumstances where a person could lawfully try to persuade a witness not to give evidence in a trial. However, Mr Justice Burns concurrently refused an application from the defence to dismiss charges against Dean Byrne, stating that "persuasion" could cause the course of justice to be perverted. The court also determined that, for the burden of proof to be met in the current case, the prosecution did not have to produce any evidence that the accused used the threat of force or corrupt inducements in attempting to influence a witness not to give evidence. On 14 June 2024, Dean Byrne was found guilty of conspiring with Aaron Brady to pervert the course of justice, by attempting to persuade Daniel Cahill not to give evidence at Brady's capital murder trial in 2020. Byrne was then remanded in custody ahead of sentencing hearings scheduled to begin on 15 July 2024.
Brady & Byrne Sentencing On 29 July 2024, Aaron Brady was sentenced to an additional 3 years in prison for attempting to pervert the course of justice, while Dean Byrne was sentenced to 2 years in prison for conspiring with Brady to pervert the course of justice.
Failed Appeal of murder conviction The
Court of Appeal, comprising Mr Justice Edwards, Ms Justice Isobel Kennedy and Ms Justice Tara Burns, began to hear Brady's legal arguments to overturn his conviction on 4 October 2023. Michael O'Higgins SC, representing Brady, submitted 47 grounds of appeal to the court, including: • the fact the original trial took place during the
COVID lockdown negatively affected jury deliberations •
Homeland Security Special Agents Mary Anne Wade and Matt Katske were both instructed not to disclose the immigration status of relevant prosecution witnesses in the case during their own cross-examination by Brady's legal team • defence lawyers were not allowed to submit into evidence and put before the jury a covert audio recording between Homeland Security Special Agent Matt Katske and James Flynn (the man referred to during the trial for legal reasons as "Suspect A") at Belfast Airport in 2017, where the agent offered to halt American deportation proceedings against Flynn's brother in return for help in identifying persons who could be persuaded to testify as prosecution witnesses against Aaron Brady • the trial judge erred in permitting the prosecution to treat Molly Staunton as a hostile witness in circumstances where her position had changed following cross-examination by the defence • the trial judge had erred in giving the jury a summary of the video evidence from prosecution witness Molly Staunton that they did not see first-hand (due to interruptions by an unknown person in the New York City apartment it was being live-streamed from) • a US police report regarding the discovery of steroids at the New York home of prosecution witness Daniel Cahill during his arrest by Homeland Security was not disclosed to defence lawyers until after his cross-examination, thus depriving them of an opportunity to question him effectively in front of the jury • the trial judge erred in failing to withdraw the Capital Murder charge from the consideration of the jury due to insufficiency of evidence that the individual who fired the shotgun knew in advance that Adrian Donohoe was a member of An Garda Síochána (as he was dressed in plain clothes and sitting in an unmarked Garda car) On 11 July 2024, the Court of Appeal dismissed Brady's application to overturn his murder conviction all 47 grounds of his appeal, • the integrity of the trial was not corrupted when an unknown person interrupted a live-streamed witness testimony • the directions of the trial judge to the jury mitigated any risk of an unfair trial. • the submission into evidence of a private conversation between Brady and his ex-girlfriend (regarding his alleged whereabouts on the night of the robbery at Lordship) was lawful • admitting into evidence a phone conversation between Brady and his ex-girlfriend where he admitted to previously stealing a jeep with Jimmy Flynn and Benny Treanor (the man referred to during the trial for legal reasons as "Suspect B") was also lawful ==Jimmy Flynn and Brendan Treanor==