An All-Ireland winning former GAA footballer today pleaded guilty on behalf of his company to it converting almost £1.2million in criminal property.
Before the trial was due to start, prosecution counsel Samuel Magee KC told Judge Gordon Kerr KC that there had been a “development in the case” and Mr Short as the only director of C Short Ltd would now be re-arraigned on the single count the company faced. The charge reads that between June 9, 2010 and March 20, 2012, C Short Ltd “converted £1,188,520 or thereabouts, which they knew or suspected, constituted or represented in whole or in part, benefit from criminal conduct or represented such a benefit”.
Short played football with Crossmaglen Rangers as a forward and won three All Ireland Club championship medals, three Ulster Club medals while also turning out for the Armagh county team.