D. J. Carey

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Denis Joseph Carey (born 11 November 1970), often abbreviated to D.J. Carey, is an Irish former hurler and convicted criminal. He played as a left corner-forward at senior level for the Kilkenny county team. In July 2025, he pled guilty to ten counts of deception, and was sentenced to five and a half years’ imprisonment in November 2025. Carey began his hurling career at club level with Young Irelands. He broke onto the club's top adult team as a 17-year-old in 1988 and enjoyed his first success in 1992 when the club won the Kilkenny Intermediate Championship title and promotion to the top flight of Kilkenny hurling. Carey later won Kilkenny Senior Championship medals as captain in 1996 and 2002. He made numerous championship appearances in three different grades of hurling for the club before retiring after a 25-year club career in 2013. At inter-county level, Carey was part of the successful Kilkenny minor team that won the All-Ireland Championship in 1988 before later the All-Ireland...

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