How one-time Sinn Féin darling Jonathan Dowdall ended up facing 15 years for facilitating Regency Hotel murder
Former councillor admits making a hotel room available to the criminal organisation involved in 2016 attack
Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald with Jonathan Dowdall whom she once described as ‘popular and respected’

September 29 2022 02:30 AM
Once a protege of Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald, Jonathan Dowdall was before the Special Criminal Court yesterday where he admitted to facilitating a murder that sparked a gangland feud.
The ex-councillor and his father Patrick pleaded guilty to helping a crime gang carry out the fatal shooting of a rival criminal at Dublin’s Regency Hotel over six years ago.
