‘Keep Carey out of Croker' – Victim urges GAA not to honour cancer conman at All Ireland

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Victim of DJ's cancer scam calls on GAA bosses to ban hurling legend from ceremony at today's All-Ireland final
A BUSINESSMAN defrauded out thousands of euro by cancer conman DJ Carey has warned the GAA it would be '100 per cent wrong' to honour the disgraced hurler in Croke Park today.
Noel Tynan, owner of The Celt bar in Dublin and one of the 80,000 strong crowd who will be in attendance for today's All-Ireland Final, said: 'It would be, completely, 100 per cent wrong.
'I'll be in Croke Park and to watch him walk out there waving and nodding, you couldn't do it.
'They recommended on the day of the court that a psychiatric report on him be carried.
'Well, if he turns up on and waves to the crowd, there certainly should be a psychiatric report on him … that's how I would see it … he'd need some balls.
'You couldn't do it, in front of 80,000, not knowing if you're going to be booed off the pitched.
'And at the least he should be booed off the pitch.'
DJ Carey admitted to deceiving 13 victims
The GAA have failed to comment ahead of today's clash between Cork and Tipperary as to whether Carey will be included when tribute is paid to the Kilkenny team that lifted the Liam McCarthy 25 years ago.
Calls to the GAA's director of communications were not returned.
A traditional part of All-Ireland ­final day is the presentation of the winners from 25 years ago to the crowd in Croke Park.
Carey was man of the match in his teams All-Ireland win over Offaly in 2000.
It's unknown whether Carey will attend but even those not in attendance traditionally have their name read out, followed by a description of their contribution during the game.
But Mr. Tynan, who is one of the 13 people Carey pleaded guilty to approaching for money after faking a cancer diagnosis, believes the conman's action, and in particular the targeting of a woman with cancer with his cancer lies, are 'unforgiveable and can't be overlooked.'
Noel Tynan says GAA should not honour Carey
'If DJ Carey wasn't who was he was, superstar that he was and the whole lot, people would be saying throw the book at this criminal,' Mr. Tynan said.
'But he's no better or worse than any other criminal.
'He's a criminal … full stop and just because he won five All-Irelands and nine All Stars, it doesn't change things
'The bottom line is he purposely set out to defraud people.
'He met me in 2017 and that's when he told me about his cancer and then he didn't hit me for six years.
'He kept me in cold storage for six years before I got the call on a Monday morning.
'And some of the lies he told me that morning …
'He didn't have to even blink.
'The big word was the deception.
'He came across as such a humble fella but he was setting me up.
'It was a form of grooming.
'The All Star, the All-Ireland winner and then to use that and say you had cancer, it's just unforgiveable and there's no excuse for him.
'What angered me more than anything is when I found out about the woman who had cancer … he conned this woman and her husband … and that to me is unforgiveable.
'That was way worse than what happened to me.
'To con that poor woman that had cancer … that's inexcusable.'
DJ Carey in his heyday before he disgraced his sporting legacy
Carey pleaded guilty on July 3rd to dishonestly by deception, inducing victims to make monetary payment to him after he fraudulently claimed to have cancer and needed finances to obtain treatment.
The offences happened at unknown locations within the State on dates between 2014 and 2022.
The 13 victims named in the case were Mr. Tynan, Owen and Ann Conway, Mark and Sharon Kelly, Denis O'Brien, Aidan Mulligan, Tony Griffin and Christy Browne, Thomas Butler, Jeffrey Howes, Edwin Carey and Aonghus Leydon.
He admitted to dishonestly persuading people to give him money by fraudulently claiming he was suffering from cancer and saying he needed funds for treatment.
He was remanded on bail and is due to be sentenced on October 29th.
DJ Carey faked having a cancer diagnosis
Last week, Carey's ex-partner Sarah Newman spoke out about the scandal, insisting a major chance had been missed to stop Carey in his tracks as far back as 2012.
She told the Sunday Independent newspaper she had contacted Blackrock Garda station to complain about Carey stealing from her, but that this was never followed up by gardai.
She said: 'That trauma could have been stopped. These victims should not have become his prey if the gardaí had taken proper notice of me when I made formal complaints back in 2012 about DJ's conduct, lies and deception.
'They [my complaints] went untreated and there has been a black cloud over my judgment and reputation for many years, which I feel has now been lifted. victims of his crimes.
'There are people who will have met me and taken statements from me over that period of time. And it is they who have to look at themselves. They know the truth and they had the facts and they did nothing about it.
'Sometimes the legal system fails people.
'Whether it's domestic violence or a heinous criminal act, sometimes the judicial system gets it wrong.
'And that starts at grassroots with the gardaí when people make complaints.
'I think all over the world there are miscarriages of justice, there are people that get away with absolutely dreadful things — and I guess that's just the way things are.'