Two couples who were jailed last week for counting drugs money for Dublin criminal John Gilligan were granted bail by the Court of Criminal Appeal yesterday.
The hearing of an appeal against the severity of the sentences imposed by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court was fixed for March 22nd.
Yvette and Patrick Warren, both aged 69, of Heatherview Lane, Tallaght, Co Dublin, were jailed for 18 months.
Their daughter, Nicola Cummins (26), of Clonfert Road, Crumlin, Dublin, was sentenced to 12 months and her husband, Brian (26), was jailed for eight months.
None of the four had any previous convictions.
The Circuit Criminal Court was told the accused were hired by Nicola Cummins's brother, Russell Warren, to count large bags of cash. Russell Warren was described as an "accounts clerk" for the Gilligan organisation.
In that court, Judge Dominic Lynch said the Warren parents were the more serious offenders.
The operation in which more than £1.5 million was counted by the accused began two days after journalist Veronica Guerin was murdered in June 1996, and ended when gardai raided the accused's home in September 1996. Another family member, Russell Warren, has been given a five-year jail term for money-laundering and is under the Garda Witness Protection Programme.
The Court of Criminal Appeal set bail for each of the accused at their own bond of £1,000, the same bail terms as before their appearance in the Circuit Criminal Court.