A jury in the Central Criminal Court in Dublin on Saturday found a man guilty of murder but acquitted him of two charges of attempted murder.
The case arose out of a gun attack at a funeral in Co Sligo in 1999.
Martin McDonagh (30) whose last address was at Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, was sentenced to life imprisonment by Mr Justice Carney after a jury found him guilty of the murder of Mr Patrick "Deuce" Ward (38) at the funeral of Patrick "Skillet" Ward in Ballymote, Sligo, on May 10th, 1999.
The jury reached the verdict after deliberating over some six hours since Friday afternoon.
It found McDonagh not guilty on two charges of the attempted murder of Patrick "Jaws'" Ward snr and "Jaws Paddy" Ward jnr outside the graveyard in Carrownanty on the same date. Shouts greeted the jury's verdict and one member of the Ward family told the jury, "Thanks".
Following the outcome of the case, it can be revealed that last weekend, gardaí extradited five more men to be charged with the murder of Patrick "Deuce" Ward.
Martin McDonagh is already serving five years following his conviction for possession of a gun with intent to endanger life in a first trial last year, during which a jury acquitted him of the attempted murder of Mr Edward Ward and disagreed on verdicts on the other charges.
The 10-day retrial over the past fortnight heard that the gun attack, which one witness described as an ambush, was part of an ongoing feud between members of the Mountbellew Ward and Bumbee McDonagh Travelling families.