In fairness, the same practice happens in other grassroots sports. Big wigs involved throwing money at lads off the books to win tin pot cups
I think there’s a massive difference between sorting out one of your own players with free rent (who may be going through hard times - Cluxton probably wasn’t but that’s beside the point) and pulling in outsiders and offering makey-uppy jobs, fuel cards, free apartments etc.
Cluxton was one of their own, Woolie wasn’t so the Laois man should shut his big gob and lie low on this one.
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You look after your own and that’s it.
You do, but do you want to make up any more strawmen there to try justify them all fleecing the club. You wouldnt do it to your own club, would you?
Cluxton hopped on the gravy train as well. He’s as bad as the rest.
The whole thing was a shitshow it seems. A real Celtic Tiger moment. You’d be stunned there was no one in the place to cry halt. Jesus when you saw the peroxide come in the door surely someone thought enough was enough.
Ah I’d doubt Parkinson is actually @myboyblue. That’s just a joke on here I’d say. I’m sure Wooly has been live on air while myboyblue has been posting here. Does Parkinson even support Man City?
He is an Everton supporter.
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Honestly doesn’t matter how much I read about the DJ Carey stuff, I will never become numb to it. It’s so so sickening and disgusting.
Feel so bad for Sarah Newman (and all his victims) in the below article from today’s Indo.
Remember when we all hated Sarah Newman on Dragon’s Den!
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Indo premium article (long one)
‘I’m probably one of the biggest victims of his fraud’: DJ Carey’s ex-partner Sarah Newman says Gardaí failed to act when she reported him for theft in 2012
Businesswoman speaks out after Carey admitted defrauding people over cancer claimsSarah Newman reveals she made a complaint to gardaí about Carey in 2012‘What he did was unforgivable — my own mother died of cancer two years ago’
Niamh Horan
July 6 2025 5:30 AM
It was a sunny day in one of the top golf clubs in Ireland when Sarah Newman’s world imploded.
At the time, she had sold a successful multi-million-euro business empire and was in a long-term relationship with one of the biggest sports stars in Ireland. But without her knowledge, former Kilkenny hurler DJ Carey had been telling people at the K Club, where the couple lived, that he had an incurable brain tumour.
Things began to unravel when a mutual friend of the couple, a wealthy businessman who has since died, gave Carey a brand-new Range Rover, with Carey promising he would pay in instalments.
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When the cheques bounced, the businessman telephoned Carey to ask about the money and told him he had given the car to him in good faith and expected to be paid.
The hurler lied to him, and claimed he was in the Mayo Clinic in the United States, having treatment for an incurable brain tumour. Ms Newman knew nothing about any of this.
The truth emerged when she returned from a trip to Switzerland and Carey’s Range Rover had disappeared from the driveway because the businessman had taken it back.
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Sarah Newman pictured for the ‘Sunday Independent’ in 2012. Photo: Gerry Mooney
She asked Carey about it. He told her it was in the garage with an electrical fault.
Some time later, Ms Newman was driving down the avenue of the K Club when she passed the businessman in his car. Moments later, he telephoned her and said: “You’re unbelievable, you know that? You and him, you’re unbelievable.”
Ms Newman was left speechless and asked him what on earth he was talking about.
The businessman told her: “I know that you were in America recently and DJ was undergoing the treatment, but I can’t believe that he just f**king bounced all the cheques on me for the car.”
She asked the man to pull the car over so they could talk face to face.
He said Carey had confided in him that he had been diagnosed with incurable brain cancer.
I can’t believe that he just f**king bounced all the cheques on me for the car
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For Ms Newman, that was the moment her world began to fall apart. And it was the moment when she realised her nine-year relationship with Carey had to end.
She confronted him, and he gaslighted her. He told her the businessman was mad and lying to her. But she knew the man was telling the truth and asked Carey to leave her home.
The lie about the brain tumour, she discovered, was only the start of it. After the couple split, others began to tell her the stories Carey had been spreading in order to get money, including that he had to get his spleen out – when he was seen playing golf a few days later.
Ms Newman was horrified. In 2012, weeks after the couple split, she sat with this reporter and confided – off the record – that she was horrified to learn Carey had been compulsively lying about health and money issues.
For the past year, the Sunday Independent has contacted Ms Newman on multiple occasions to speak – on the record – about her personal experience of Carey’s deceit. She declined. Now, having been contacted by this newspaper again last week following Carey’s guilty plea, she has agreed to speak publicly for the first time about her ordeal and why she believes gardaí should have acted sooner.
I hope they can live their best lives and have a wall of steel of deep friendships
Ms Newman said she contacted gardaí at Blackrock garda station in Co Dublin in 2012. She complained that Carey had been stealing from her.
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However, she says those complaints were not followed up, and Carey remained free to embark on a trail of deception.
It would be 11 years until Carey, now 54, was arrested and charged with 21 counts of fraud and forgery, in September 2023. Last Wednesday, at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, he pleaded guilty to 10 charges of defrauding a number of people out of money while pretending he had cancer, over a period from 2014 to 2022.
Carey is regarded as one of the greatest hurlers of all time, winning five All-Ireland senior medals with Kilkenny. He is due to be sentenced in October after a spectacular fall from grace — one as dramatic as its rise.
Ms Newman, now known as Lady Digby, is in a new chapter of her life. She is married to Lord Henry Digby, the Baron of Offaly. The pair live on a vast estate in Dorset, England.
“I moved on a long time ago. I’m very happy. I’ve got a very happy life and I’ve got very genuine friends who I love, adore, and hopefully they feel the same way about me,” she said.
On what she has learnt from her experience with Carey, she added: “Listen to the red flags. But it’s easier said than done.”
Ms Newman outlined the personal trauma she experienced as a result of Carey’s actions, but she also wanted to express her thoughts for his children, Mikey and Sean.
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“I hope they can live their best lives and that they have a wall of steel of deep friendships that will see them through this really traumatic time for them,” she said.
DJ Carey in action for Kilkenny in 2005. Photo: Sportsfile
“I am very relieved that the victims of DJ’s crimes will not have to be put through the trauma of giving evidence in what was expected to be a long and drawn-out trial.”
But she added that Carey “could have saved an awful lot of taxpayers’ money by pleading guilty a long time ago”.
On a personal level, she said the case has brought up “some very desperately sad and traumatic memories”, which she says “my family and I have lived through”.
In her own case, she said her 2012 complaint was not followed up.
This, she believes, could have been a turning point: if her reports about Carey’s behaviour had been taken seriously then, he might have been halted.
“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,” she said.
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“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.”
I just feel desperately, desperately sad for the victims of his crimes
Ms Newman, one of the first self-made female entrepreneurs to make Ireland’s Rich List in the 1990s, met Carey in 2005. They each had two children from previous marriages.
They were engaged to be married in 2011, but Ms Newman called it off in 2012 – the same year she reported him.
On being one of the first people to raise the alarm, she said: “I don’t believe I was heard, and therein lies the problem. So I don’t feel any form of satisfaction or elation this weekend. I just feel desperately, desperately sad for the victims of his crimes.”
DJ Carey with a phone charger up his nose
Ms Newman said her experience with Carey meant she “didn’t trust anybody for around 10 years”.
Asked why she believes she was not listened to, she said: “I suspect because of his status and fame as a sports star at that time, but I’ll never know the answer to that.”
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“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.
He could have done so much good — instead he chose to do so much bad
“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.”
Asked if she understood Carey’s motives for claiming he had a terminal illness in order to benefit financially, Ms Newman said: “I don’t think I can possibly get into the mind of somebody and make a call on that because I’m not a psychologist. But what he did was unforgivable. My own mother died from cancer two years ago.
“I will never ever be able to fathom why he conducted his life like this when he had the world at his feet. He had so much good that he could have done with his life because of his sports status. He could have supported people with illnesses, he could have supported charities, he could have done so much good — and instead he chose to do so much bad.”
Ms Newman said that during their relationship she was “totally unaware of his lies. In fact, I was probably one of the biggest victims of his fraud”.
The emotional trauma is more devastating than any financial loss
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For the victims who experienced financial losses, she said there are also “emotional losses”.
“I’m sure, like me, they have deeply questioned their judgment of human behaviour,” she said.
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“And knowing what I went through, the emotional trauma is more devastating than any financial loss.”
Asked if her experience with Carey was the reason she left Ireland, she said: “Yes. I wanted a new life and I wanted to get away from the cloud that followed me around in the aftermath of my separation from what was a nine-year relationship.”
Ms Newman is now enjoying her new life while Carey awaits sentencing.
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I chuckle every time I see that photo of dj with the phone charger
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Same. And that will be the lasting image of him in the public imagination.
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Niall Gilligan.
an Irish patriot
Next time I’m in the Crabtree I’ll have to ask him what happened
Man in possession of a stick catches boy (12) trespassing on his property. Boy falls fleeing.
Allegedly gives the trespasser a few lashes of said stick. Pleads self defence……
Is Gilligan wildly deluded that this plea will fly?
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Think i recall there being a bit more to it. Will come out in due course in court if there was
Juries are strange things. I was once talking to a judge who said, and I quote
“If I was guilty, I’d want a jury. If I was innocent, I’d want a judge”
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