Man convicted of operating ‘dodgy box’ service remanded in custody after further charges arise

Court told gardaí found selfie on Ciaran Donovan’s phone mocking his being brought before court for non-payment of TV licenceCiaran Donovan pleaded guilty last July to money laundering arising from selling an app linked to an illegal streaming service between January 2016 and March 2022. Photograph: Colin Keegan/Collins

The 41-year-old, a married father of two from Ashfield, Kildare, pleaded guilty last July to money laundering arising from his selling of an app linked to the King Kong Media illegal streaming service between January 2016 and March 2022. Judge Baxter said the presumption of innocence applied in relation to that matter and she was only dealing with the case before her. The court also heard that the illegal service was still operating as of the weekend.

The court heard that at one stage when Donovan was before the courts for the non-payment of his TV licence, he took a selfie outside the courts which he posted with the words: “In court for not paying TV licence. How ironic. LOL” and “If only they knew”. The selfie was discovered on a phone seized by gardaí.

When Judge Baxter said she found statements made by Donovan in a letter handed in to her to be “hypocritical”, counsel did not disagree but added that his client had pleaded guilty to the offences before the court.

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