A 59-YEAR-OLD man has been remanded in custody accused of enhancing a criminal organisation by purchasing a car used in the 2017 murder of a father-of-one in a shooting in Dublin.

Jamie Tighe Ennis, 24, from Darndale, Dublin, 17, but who was living in Timbermills, Artane, Dublin 5, was killed in a shooting at a housing estate on Moateview Avenue, Priorswood, on October 28, 2017.

John Farrell, of Rialto Cottages, Dublin 8, appeared at Dublin District Court before Judge Deirdre Gearty yesterday/today.

He is accused that from 13 to t0 28 October 2017, to enhance the ability of a criminal organisation to commit a serious offence, murder, he purchased and kept a 2000-reg car so as it could be and was later used in the commission of the murder of Jamie Tighe.

The charge is under section 72 of the Criminal Justice Act 2006, and a bail application could only be made in the High Court because the offence was connected to an alleged murder.

Detective Sergeant Domhnall O’Connell told Judge Gearty that he arrested the accused at his home at 11.20am today and brought him to Clontarf station, where he was charged and “made no reply”.

The Director of Public Prosecutions directed Farrell to face trial on indictment, but the case does not need to be heard in the non-jury Special Criminal Court trial.

Farrell stood silently throughout the hearing and did not address the court.

Judge Gearty remanded him in custody pending the preparation of a book of evidence.

He will appear again at Cloverhill District Court on Tuesday.

Defence solicitor Julieanne Hayden told Judge Gearty her client would make a High Court bail application next week. Legal aid was granted.