Funeral to take place of ‘neighbour from hell’ found dead in prison cell

A criminal once dubbed a ‘neighbour from hell’ in Buncrana will be laid to rest on Wednesday in Dublin.

The funeral of Carl Ryan, who was found dead in his prison cell on Christmas Day, will take place in the capital.

Ryan was a native of Ballyfermot who spent several years living in Buncrana, where he waged terror in the Burwood estate.

Ryan was serving a sentence at Wheatfield Prison having been in ill health of late. 

In 2023, Ryan was jailed for threatening to burn his neighbours’ children and ‘nail them to the floorboards’.

Ryan had 44 previous convictions when he was sentenced to 14 months in prison by Judge Éiteáin Cunningham at Letterkenny District Court.

Ryan was also charged with a series of vicious threats in Buncrana over a 13-month period in 2019 and 2020. 

In May 2022, Ryan was given a five-and-a-half year sentence when he appeared at Letterkenny Circuit Court, where he was found guilty of assaulting a 67-year-old neighbour and demanding money with menaces from the landlord of the house he was renting.

A funeral service for Ryan will take place in Stafford’s Funeral Home, Ballyfermot on Wednesday followed by a burial at Palmerstown Cemetery.

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Predeceased by his parents Arthur and Teresa and his brother Arthur, he is survived by his partner Jackie, son’s Carl and Dean, daughters Lisa, Shannon, Linda, Sandra, Lynn and Jodie, daughter-in-law Trisha, sons-in-law Mark and Eric, adored grandchildren, brother Darren, sister Anna, Gina and Sylvia, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, nieces, nephews, relatives, friends and neighbours.