From legend to pariah: Court hears of DJ Carey’s spectacular fall from grace

From legend to pariah: Court hears of DJ Carey’s spectacular fall from grace

From legend to pariah: Court hears of DJ Carey’s spectacular fall from grace


Fame and talent can only buffer reality for so long. For DJ Carey, the first moment of truth came in December 2022, when a financial institution contacted the gardaí about a suspiciously large transfer into his AIB bank account. Around the same time, a garda complaint was filed against the former Kilkenny hurler by a person he had duped out of money claiming he needed cancer treatment. Carey wasn’t sick. It didn’t take long for the sporting legend’s mesh of duplicity to unravel. At a voluntary garda interview on December 20, 2022, Carey partially confessed.  He admitted to asking for…