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…

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