“DJ did a beeline for my husband on the side of the hurling field and he said, ‘I have the same cancer as your wife’”
Journalist Eimear Ní Bhraonáin is the author of The Dodger: DJ Carey and the Great Betrayal, a book exploring the personality and deception of Kilkenny’s former hurling great. From impromptu requests for €100 during chance encounters to elaborate stories about his fake cancer to tap wealthy victims including Denis O’Brien, she tells Dion Fanning about the traits that led Carey down a a path of fraud, how he targeted his victims — and the dark corners that continue to surround the years before he was caught.
