Michael Dermot McArdle (aged 41) of Brookfield, Heynestown, Dundalk, is wanted by Spanish authorities to serve a two year sentence for causing the death of Kelly Ann Corcoran over 10 years ago.
The mother-of-two died from injuries sustained when she fell from a hotel balcony while on a family holiday in Marbella on the Costa del Sol on February 11, 2000.
McArdle was convicted by a jury in Malaga in October 2008 but was allowed to return to Ireland pending an appeal.
He was due to hand himself in to the Spanish authorities to begin his jail sentence in September of last year, but failed to do so and was arrested in January on foot of a European Arrest Warrant issued by a Spanish judge.
Last month Barrister Mark Lynam told the High Court that McArdle was appealing to the Constitutional Court in Spain and had a “legitimate expectation” that he would not have to return to the jurisdiction until after the outcome of this appeal.
Today at the Criminal Courts of Justice, lawyers for the State told the court they had yet to receive any documentation to support a “legitimate expectation” argument or any points of objection to the extradition proceedings.
Mr Justice John Edwards acceded to a short adjournment in the matter and remanded McArdle on continuing bail until March 16.
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