Man denies he helped Lunney abductors

• Published date: 05 June 2021
• Author: Eoin Reynolds

Luke O'Reilly also told gardaí that he was "definitely not" involved in the dispute over Quinn Industrial Holdings (QIH), of which Mr Lunney is a director, and wouldn't know Mr Lunney if he met him.

Gardaí arrived at Luke O'Reilly's home at about 1pm on September 20th, 2019, three days after Mr Lunney had been abducted, tortured and abandoned on a country road.

Det Sgt Michael Kearney told Seán Guerin SC for the Director of Public Prosecutions that Mr O'Reilly brought him and a colleague into his sitting room and told them that he understood they had a warrant to search his home. When asked if he understood why gardaí were there, he said: "Because I bought the bottle of bleach."

He told gardaí that his son had gone to the shop but returned without bleach and so Mr O'Reilly had said he would get it once he finished his dinner.

Find the bleach He said he subsequently went to Lynch's Gala in Killydoon and had to ask the woman working in the shop where to find the bleach.

When Sgt Kearney asked Mr O'Reilly if he knew anything about the false imprisonment of Kevin Lunney, Mr O'Reilly responded: "I seen it on the news. I wouldn't know the man if I met him."

The sergeant asked if Mr O'Reilly was "involved in what is happening in the Quinn companies".

He replied: "Definitely not."

An unnamed man referred to as YZ (40), Alan O'Brien (40), of Shelmalier Road, East Wall, Dublin, Darren Redmond (27), from Caledon Road, East Wall, Dublin and Luke O'Reilly (67), with an address at Mullahoran Lower, Kilcogy, Co Cavan, have all pleaded not guilty to false imprisonment and intentionally causing serious harm to Mr...