Brian Cummins, who had connections to Young, is appealing the severity of his five-year sentence for money-laundering
Brian Cummins, Balgaddy Road, Tuam, Co Galway pleaded guilty on the date his trial was due to get underway to money laundering contrary to S7(1)(b) and 7(3) (b) of the Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) Act 2010.
He was sentenced to seven years in prison with the final two years suspended by Judge Brian O’Callaghan at Galway Circuit Court on July 19, 2024.
The sentencing court heard that during the course of an investigation into organised crime, gardaí arrested Barry Young in December 2019. His phone was seized and analysed and the material found on it showed Young as the leader of an Organised…