Dowdall the Informer, Set for Release, with New ID in Months. Former/ Sinn Fein councillor Jonathan Dowdall is living a miserable existence behind bars as a cleaner.

He is not due for release from Limerick Prison until the end of the year.

The disgraced criminal will then enter a new life with a new identity after he was accepted into witness protection.

Dowdall was initially charged with the 2016 murder of Kinahan cartel gangster David Byrne at Dublin’s Regency Hotel.

However, he pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of facilitating the Hutch gang in the deadly shooting and was handed a four-year sentence.He later turned State witness against Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch, testifying that the crime lord told him he was one of a six-man hit team involved in the gun attack.

But Hutch walked free after being acquitted in 2023 at the Special Criminal Court while Dowdall was left serving his sentence.

Dowdall has remained on the D1 isolation landing in the Limerick lock-up, which he shares with trans inmate Barbie Kardashian.

He passes his days by working as a cleaner but is at “very little else”, with visits from his wife once a week keeping him going.