A 54-year-old Clare man already serving a life sentence for the murder of a hackney driver has been given six five-year jail terms for other offences related to the murder.
Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court yesterday ordered that the six five-year sentences run concurrently with the life sentence.
Anthony Kelly, a native of Ruan, Co Clare, with an address at Emlagh na Muck, Emlagh More, Waterville, Co Kerry, was found guilty of murdering father-of-four Liam Molony (56) in Ruan, Co Clare, on February 11th, 2005.
The defence had admitted the killing but claimed the accused was suffering from a mental disorder at the time. However, a jury rejected this defence and found him guilty on May 8th this year.
Before the murder trial, Kelly had pleaded guilty to six other charges: robbing the deceased of €10, taking his car, setting fire to it, burglary of the deceased's flat, possession of a machete and axe, and possession of a firearm.
Mr Justice Carney said he took into account that Kelly had at all times pleaded guilty to these offences and that he had no previous convictions in this jurisdiction.
He also backdated the sentences to run from February 25th, 2005, the time of Kelly's arrest.
Sgt Michael Harron told the court Kelly was deported from the US in 2001 after being convicted of faking his own kidnapping in an attempt to extort money from his uncle. He served two years in a US prison for this offence and, on his return to Clare, he initially worked as a security man in a shop.
But he moved to Kerry in 2003 and was introduced to the deceased by a mutual friend six months before the killing.
All three men would drink together "infrequently" and, at the time of the killing, Kelly owed the deceased €160.
The court heard how Kelly sharpened an axe and knife at his home in preparation for the attack.He hacked Mr Molony to death with a hatchet or meat-cleaver and then slit his throat.