In July, Carey pleaded guilty to 10 sample charges of using fraud and deception to cheat people out of money. A Sick Man: DJ Carey and his cancer con Listen | 51:15“He took advantage of people’s good nature and goodwill towards him,” said Judge Martin Nolan at his sentencing. Eimear Ní Bhraonáin’s recent book, The Dodger: DJ Carey and the Great Betrayal, reveals a man who desperately wanted to be liked and admired. He seemed to live in other people’s eyes, morphing into the person he thought they wanted him to be. An article by Colm Keena resurfaced something revealing Carey said to a reporter for The Irish Times in the 1990s.
