Wanted to start this thread on here for members in USA,Canada or other countries to keep them up to date on OC in ireland,im gonna keep updating daily-weekly with all the newspaper articles,clippings and pictures.

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Target No.1 - Sunday World 10/2/2012

1. Death-list man put under jail protection as RIRA step up hunt for ryans killers.

A dublin man arrested in northern ireland this week with false passports and 60,000 in cash is in protective custody in jail over fears the RIRA plan to whack him.

"Jonathan Gill" is on a "Real IRA" hitlist after the dissidents declared war on north dublin gangsters in the wake of the murder of its former leader "Alan Ryan".

The 31 year old was charged with money laundering offence in dungannon magistrates court on wednesday and is due to appear there again next week.Authorities in northern ireland fear the well-spoken man could be attacked by revenge-thirsty dissidents and have placed him in isolation for his own protection.

Gill is the subject of a massive garda investigation because of his suspected involvment in money laundering on behalf of a criminal gang based in coolock.The criminal assets bureau (CAB) is in the final stages of a massive investigation into gill and are likely to hit him with a demand for a five-figure sum of undeclared income.

2. Infiltrate.

He is also being investigated by gardai with a view to bringing charges before the special criminals court under the anti-gangland legislation,Which would see him go on trial without a jury.

Despite being suspected of being a serious player in the coolock gangs schemes,Gill has no serious charges brought against him and only has a handful of convictions for road traffic offences.Gardai have identified at least 12 hard core members of the gang and say its a extremely tight-knit and disciplined and is impossible to infiltrate.

"Sources say that 'Jonathan Gill' or Giller as he is known is a very smart operator",He comes from the malahide area of north dublin and a respectable family.
He no longer lives at the family home and spends his time moving between various locations in skerries,rush and swords.He is said to be extremely conscious of surveillance by gardai and is hard to keep tabs on.Gill attended school in leafy clontarf and teachers regarded him as being very smart.He is involved in a long-term relationship with a woman from clontarf and is a devoted boyfriend and very good to his friends,although he is said to bear grudges and is highly strung.

Gill first came to garda attention when,in his mid-teens because of his association with serious criminals and has been on gardai's radar ever since.The gang gill is involved with is just one of a number that have been targeted by the 'Real IRA' in a bid to get revenge for 'Alan Ryans' murder last september.The RIRA kingpin was shot dead close to his home in donaghmede on the orders of a criminal from north dublin who is nicknamed 'Mr Big'.

'Mr Big's' gang has been linked to at least seven murders,including the savage petrol slaying of two cousins in a case of mistaken identity.The gang is suspected of controlling the drugs trade in north dublin and being behind at least half-a dozen tiger kidnappings,including one in the northeast last year where several young children were held hostage.Over the past seven years 'Mr Big's' gang have become the main drug-dealing outfit in darndale,coolock,raheny on northside dublin.

His main rival in the drugs trade was 'Micka The Panda Kelly',who was shot dead two years ago by 'Alan Ryan RIRA Gang' clearing the way for them to take over.Gardai have linked the gang to several unsolved murders.They suspect the gang was responsible for kidnap and suspected of 'Patrick Lawlor',who disappeared in donaghmede in decemember in 2004,it is thought he was killed over a drugs debt but no body has ever been found.

Detectives have also linked the gang to the slaying of 22-year old 'James Purdue',who was shot dead in donaghmede in june 2006.Purdue was a low-level drug dealer and was also a close pal of 'Patrick Lawlor'.Two brothers from darndale nicknamed 'The Taliban',act as assassins for 'Mr Big's' gang.They were responible for the double murder of innocent cousins 'Mark Noonan' and 'Glen Murphy' were tragically murdered instead.The taliban brothers have been blamed for the double murder of 'Anthony Burnett' and 'Joseph Redmond' in march 2012,after the pair were found shot dead in a car in dundalk,co. louth.

3. Hatred.

'Mr Big' is known to have a serious hatred of gardai and regularly abuses members of the force.He has also been investigated for a number of incidents involving violence,including a man from coolock who was left with a number of serious stab wounds to the back.

However many people are afraid to make complaints against him because they are so fearful about the reputation of the gang.The mob is conscious of not displaying wealth and they travel around in a fleet of battered cars so as not to attract attention from gardai.For years,'Mr Big' and his fellow gang members existed in peace with 'Alan Ryans' RIRA gang,with boths sides turning a blind eye to each others activities.

However around christmas 2011 there was a incident in a well-known spot in swords co dublin,when one of ryans lieutenants recieved a serious beating at the hands of three members of 'Mr Big' gang,who were out of their heads on cocaine.This led to serious bad blood between the two gangs.The RIRA issued death threats 'Mr Big' and his associates and the gang boss left for spain last march.

The following month members of 'Mr Big' gang collected a cache of guns they had hidden in balgriffin cemetery and drove to 'Alan Ryans' home with the intention of murdering him.One of the masked men knocked on the door,but when a woman answered they lost their nerve and fled.This alerted ryan that his life was under threat and an all-out war broke out between the rival sides.

'Mr Big's' mob decided it was a case of kill or be killed and put in place an operation to get rid of ryan and that the key lieutenants who would replace him were very weak.Between leaving ireland in march and the time of ryans murder in september,gardai believe that 'Mr Big' returned to the country on three occasions,travelling through belfast airport.There is no suggestion that 'Mr Big' pulled the trigger when ryan was shot dead,but gardai have identified his associates as being responsible,as has the 'Real IRA'.

While in spain,'Mr Big' mixed with several notorious dublin drug-dealers including 'Paul Burger Walsh' from donaghmede,who was a long-time associate of 'Micka The Panda Kelly'.

4. Contacts.

His gang has extensive contacts among dealers in spain and sources its drug supply from there.'Mr Big' Permanently returned to ireland in november after it became clear that the 'Real IRA' was too busy with internal struggles to avenge their murdered comrade.
On december 4th 'Mr Big' and one of his closest associates was arrested on St.James street in dublins south inner city and gardai believe they had foiled an attempted assassination on up-and-coming drug dealer 'Greg Lynch'.

1. B-Ride Of His Life.

How X-rated pictures of groom and his lover led to a mass brawl at mobsters wedding.

These are the Xrated snaps that sparked murder on the dancefloor at a tallaght-based mobsters wedding last week.
The notorious gangster can be seen in a steamy clinch with a woman he was seeing behind his financees back.
However the criminal illicit activities came to light at the worst possible moment last weekend when his new bride to be was about told about the images and the affair at her wedding reception.

2. Vicious.

A vicious brawl erupted in a posh hotel in the midlands,with two groups of women exchanging punches on the dancefloor.

It is believed the mistress suffered horrific facial injuries after she was confronted at around 2.00AM on sunday when she dissapeared with her lover.The woman was rushed to the hospital after suffering a broken jaw and having lost a number of teeth after being kicked in the face.'A source described the scene as absolutely chaotic,the women did all the damage,it was total carnage,ive never seen anything like it'.

The savage assault is now being investigated by gardai.The mobster is a well known to gardai and is a close associate of armed robber 'Paul Rice'.He is currently before the courts in connection with drugs and weapons charges and has served a long sentence for a serious crime.Following the wedding the newlyweds are believed to have gone their seperate ways and have not been reunited.

Last week,a number of facebook pages where setup by the brides friends.The bride wrote on one 'She is welcome to my husband' another pal wrote 'A**** is a home wrecking whore,dirty damp yoke is probably riddled lol'.The criminal is believed to have gone underground after the wedding and is understood to be back home living with his mother in tallaght.

Don, i did not see you had this story up already, before i put this on Criminal Action Force thread. will have to keep my eyes open.

yeh i did it yesterday from the newpaper & scanned all the pics sometimes theres a few little articles in there that dont show up their website.

couldnt resist putting up the second story poor F*** got married for a total of 4 hours lol

Extortion Thugs Use's RIRA Name.

Criminal figures with links to 'Alan Ryans' former gang have been using the name of the 'RIRA' to extort money in sligo.
Gardai have arrested three men in castlebaldwin last monday during a routine checkpoint and found balaclavas in the car.

The arrest's happened shortly after four masked men called to the home of a family and where demanding 40,000 euros.
They said he had to pay up the money because he assaulted someone they knew.However,he was not present at his home at the time the men arrived his sister started screaming and the gang fled the scene.

Shot

Three men were later arrested during a routine checkpoint.They were released later the next day and investigations are ongoing.One of the men arrested is a criminal figure who is a pal of 'Fat Deccy Smith' and sligo man 'Aaron Nealis'.

Smith was shot shot in the legs by the 'Real IRA',Who now call themselves the 'I.R.A' after merging with 'Republician Action Against Drugs' 'R.A.A.D' and other former 'Provos' groups.

Nealis was with ryan when he was killed and suffered a gunshot to his leg but survived the Assault.Both smith and nealis associate with two brothers arrested on monday.The brothers are from baldoyle area,and sources say they have robbed drug dealers before using the name of the 'RIRA'.

Yes Don got the Criminal Action Force photo from Irish Daily Star paper but was not on their web site.

Don could we see Criminal Action Force outside Dublin like west of Ireland some time.

http://www.herald.ie/news/pipebomb-found-in-park-just-500m-from-garda-station-29066004.html

Pipebomb found in park just 500m from garda station.



Ken Foy Crime correspondent – 12 February 2013 03:15 PM

A PIPEbomb discovered in a Dublin park last night was less than 500 metres from a garda station.


The viable device was found at a park near Rossmore Road in Ballyfermot at around 5.30pm which led to officers calling in the army bomb disposal unit.

Sources say that the pipe bomb had been left in the park by a criminal gang for collection later.

A Defence Forces spokesperson said: "The Defence Forces deployed the Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Team in response to a request from the gardai after the suspect device was found in a green area near the Rossmore Road.



Controlled

"The team arrived on the scene at 5.30pm and a cordon was put in place around the scene for public safety.

"The suspect device was rendered safe in situ without the need for a controlled explosion and was then moved to a secure military location for further technical examination and testing.

"The scene was declared safe at 6.15 pm. The device has now been confirmed as a viable IED following further testing and it's component parts will be handed over to the gardai to assist in their investigation into the incident."

Meanwhile, gardai from Ballyfermot were investigating a suspected arson attack on a car which is understood to have happened in the early hours.

The car was completely gutted in the blaze with a number of officers attending the scene at around 8am. A distressed woman in pyjamas was observed in conversation with gardai.

A source said: "There is absolutely nothing at this stage to suggest that there is any link between the two incidents."

Separately, tensions have been high in the Ballyfermot area since local teenager Luke Wilson was shot at point blank range in an Inchicore park last month.

Last night, gardai re-arrested a man who was previously questioned about the gun attack and he is being held today in Kilmainham Garda Station.

Gardai believe Luke was targeted after a pub row with a gang of his former friends who branded his uncle John Wilson, who was shot dead last year, a "rat".

A number of people have been arrested as part of the detailed investigation including a 35-year-old career criminal from Ballyfermot and a 23-year-old woman from Clondalkin, who were arrested on suspicion of withholding information.

Sources said that the Rossmore Road incidents are not linked to the shooting which led to Mr Wilson losing an eye.

kfoy@herald.ie

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2013/0213/1224329982715.html

Rattigan directed drug deals from cell.




In what is believed to be the first successful prosecution of its kind, a man has been convicted in connection with directing the supply of drugs while in prison.

The Special Criminal Court has found Dublin criminal Brian Rattigan guilty of the possession and supply of €1 million worth of heroin.

The court was told that the president of the High Court, Mr Justice Nicholas Kearns, made an order that Rattigan should be tried at the non-jury court following an application by the Director of Public Prosecutions under the Offences Against the State Act.

The court yesterday agreed with the prosecution case that Rattigan (32) was the director of a drugs gang conducting a €1 million heroin deal.

Rattigan, Cooley Road, Drimnagh, had pleaded not guilty to the possession of heroin and two counts of possession of the drug for sale or supply on Hughes Road South, Walkinstown, Dublin, on May 21st, 2008.

The court cleared him of two counts relating to the possession of two mobile phones at cell 42, E1 landing, Portlaoise Prison, while a prisoner there, on May 22nd, 2008, which he had also denied.

Returning a written judgment, presiding judge Mr Justice Paul Butler said the court was satisfied that a “tick list” was sent by Rattigan to a Nokia mobile phone found with the heroin at the house on Hughes Road South and this, in conjunction with notes found in his cell, amounted to directions as to the distribution of the drugs.

Mr Justice Butler said that no other reasonable inference could be drawn from evidence before the court.

Text message

The court heard that gardaí who raided the house discovered 5kg of heroin valued at over €1 million and a Nokia phone in a shed at the back of the property, while a search of a bedroom yielded just over €36,000 in cash.

Drugs expert Det Garda Sgt Brian Robertson gave evidence that a text message printed out from an analysis of the Nokia phone, which spoke of “half bars”, “boxes” and “9” being allocated to names such as “Gangko” “McGyver” “Peck” and “Crazy”, referred to the division of drugs by weight.

The court heard that the sender of the text message was a phone number belonging to a Sim card that was thrown out of Rattigan’s cell when it was raided.

Members of the Garda Organised Crime Unit, who raided Rattigan’s cell, told the court that they found Rattigan lying on his bed with a mobile phone in his hand and that he threw this phone out of his cell when confronted by gardaí.

CCTV footage of an object being thrown onto the prison landing was viewed by the court, while gardaí gave evidence that two Sim cards were attached and that they had found a Samsung mobile phone, another Sim card and notebooks inside Rattigan’s cell.

Garda Sgt Tony Flanagan said he examined one of the two notebooks seized by detectives and that it also contained a long list of names and numbers, including names such as “McGyver”, followed by the word “half”, “Gangko”, succeeded by the number “9” and “Crazy”, also followed by “9”.

Mr Justice Butler said the court was “fully satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt” that Rattigan threw a mobile phone out of his cell upon the arrival of gardaí to search it, and that he was in possession of that device and others found in his cell.

He said the court found that the legislation on the possession of mobile phones in prison was drafted without any presumption that a person was without permission, and that there was an onus on the prosecution to prove the matter.

Deficit of proof

Brendan Grehan SC, defending, said there was a “deficit of proof” with regard to the two counts of mobile phone possession, as the prosecution failed to call two assistant governors who had the authority to grant permission for a phone to be used, thus the offence had not been made out to the requisite standard of proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

Mr Justice Butler said the court was not satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt in respect of the evidence adduced in relation to the mobile phone counts and would find Rattigan not guilty. He said the court would list the matter for sentencing on March 20th.

Message.

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THUGS OF WAR
Elite garda squad targets SIX new gangs as King Ratt and Fat Freddie are overthrown by 200 young guns



OUSTED: Brian Rattigan and Freddie Thompson have lost control of their crime empires

THE 'Fat' Freddie Thompson and Brian Rattigan mobs are no more and have been replaced by SIX new gangs with an incredible 200 members, the Sunday World can reveal.

Gardai have set up a new elite anti-gang unit and have declared war on the vicious new breed of gangsters, some of whom are as young as 16.

The mobsters have emerged from the ashes of the bloody Crumlin/Drimnagh feud and are involved in murders, armed robberies and pipe bombings.

The new crews are operating within just a few square miles in Dublin's south-inner city and gardai say they are the most dangerous criminals they have ever encountered.

THE 'Fat' Freddie Thompson and Brian Rattigan gangs have been replaced by six ruthless new mobs with 200 members, the Sunday World can reveal.

Gardai have declared war on the outfits and have set up an elite new anti-gang squad to crack down on their activities. The 200 serious criminals, some as young as 16, are operating in just a few square miles in Dublin's south inner city and sources say they are the most dangerous mobsters that gardai have ever encountered.

Bombings

The young thugs have been linked to dozens of incidents of serious crime over the last six months - including murder, pipe bombings and armed robberies.

The new mobs have sprung up from the original Crumlin-Drimnagh feud which has claimed 16 lives, but sources say that Thompson and Rattigan have no control over the latest generation of criminals and are regarded as "yesterday's men".

When Brian 'King Rat' Rattigan was convicted this week of operating a drugs network from his cell not a single criminal turned up in court to pay their respects. He has now been abandoned by his former cohorts and his gang has all but dissolved.

'Fat' Freddie is stuck in Spain following his extradition and although he still has supporters, the new gangs have taken over his drug-dealing strongholds, leaving him sidelined.



FEARED: Greg Lynch

Gardai at Kevin Street station have spent the last three months analysing all serious criminals in their area with links to Thompson and Rattigan and have identified the 200 suspects and six distinct gangs.

Senior officers were shocked at the sheer amount of dangerous thugs operating in such a small area and have set up a new unit with orders to get in the faces of criminals and stop and search them on sight.

The anti-gang cops have already started to disrupt the activities of the mobs and all officers in the district have been ordered to harass the mobsters and make their lives hell.

The biggest of the new gangs is based in the Coombe and has an incredible 60 members.The mob is led by convicted thug Greg Lynch and has been linked to drug dealing and armed robberies.

Twenty-eight-year-old Lynch is one of the main targets of the new anti-gang unit and is regarded as a cunning criminal who doesn't talk on mobile phones for fear he is being bugged by cops.

Notorious

The second largest of the gangs is based in the notorious St Teresa's Gardens flats project in Donore Avenue and has reportedly over 40 members.

One of the key figures in this outfit is 25 year-old Paul Gray. He learned the criminal ropes as a driver for key 'Fat' Freddie lieutenant Graham 'the Wig' Whelan.

Gray is the brother in law of Ritchie Thompson and he attacked rival criminal Gerard Eglington in a packed courtroom in July 2011. Eglington was shot dead last year by pals of 'Fat' Freddie.

Another mob of 35 gangsters is based in St Vincent Street South, just off Clanbrassil Street in the capital's south-inner city. The leader of this gang is a 23-year-old man who is suspected of setting up his friend Declan O'Reilly to be murdered last September.

The cunning criminal contacted a hitman who was lying in wait on the South Circular Road as O'Reilly was walking home after collecting fireworks with his young son.

O'Reilly was whacked in cold blood and the young boss is now under death threat and his home has been pipe bombed. Gardai say he had no qualms about setting up his mate. He is one of the prime targets of the new gang initiative.

There are a further 15 gangsters operating out of Bluebell. The leader of this faction is Sean Connolly.

Connolly is regarded as being a serious player in gang activity and is currently before the Special Criminal Court charged with the murder of gangland don Eamon Kelly last December.

The 34-year-old is said to be a dangerous figure with links to the Real IRA, the old Rattigan gang and 'King Ratt's' heir apparent himself Aaron Rattigan. Aaron Rattigan - who is a cousin of Brian - is the boss of a gang of around 20 young men based in Basin Street in Dublin 8.

The 22-year-old has become a major gangland player over the last three years and has kept the bloody feud with the Thompson mob going, orchestrating several violent attacks.

With Brian Rattigan serving a life sentence for murder, Aaron became the day-to-day boss and soon had a loyal group of followers around him, including Kenneth Roche, whose two brothers were murdered as part of the Crumlin-Drimnagh feud.

Rattigan is regarded as being extremely ruthless and is one of the most dangerous of the new breed of 200 thugs.

Murdered



NEW BOSS: Aaron Rattigan

Another 25 criminals have been identified as operating out of Fatima Mansions, Maryland and Dolphin House. A key player in this mob is 'Fat' Freddie's cousin Eoin O'Connor The 29-year-old has risen in prominence since 2005 when his face was badly slashed at a music festival by murdered gangsters Gerard Eglington and Anthony Cannon.

O'Connor, who was jailed in 2010 for assaulting a garda, is looked up to by young criminal associates. He acquired the nickname 'Scarface' after the slashing and is one of the new gang unit's main targets.

Despite the lack of resources available to them, gardai are determined to take the fight to the young criminals with an in-your-face policing approach.

They are maintaining a visible presence on the streets where the gangs operate and are carrying out daily checkpoints and patrols as well as intelligence led searches on suspects' houses.

Senior gardai are worried because many of the 200 or so criminals identified are very young, some still being as young as 16.

However, they are all regarded as already being hardened criminals with designs to replace 'Fat' Freddie Thompson and Brian Rattigan as the next generation of 'Mr Bigs'.

Although the six gangs are based in the south-inner city, some of the members are from Crumlin and Drimnagh.

Gardai in Kevin Street are leading the operation, although they are working closely with other stations, including Crumlin, Sundrive Road, Pearse Street and Kilmainham.

The Emergency Response Unit and Organised Crime Unit are also involved and are mounting joint operations.

Successful

If the new unit is successful it could be extended to other garda districts across Dublin.

Some of the original members of the Freddie Thompson and Brian Rattigan gangs supply drugs to the new criminals but moved away from the feud as they got older and the influence of their bosses waned.The main supplier is now Graham Whelan.

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BOYS IN THE BLOOD
Main players in new battle for gangland control show no mercy in vicious feuds



KEY PLAYER: Greg Lynch (left) is the top target for gardai

THE NEW garda anti-gang unit has been set up as a response to a serious increase in mob activity in Dublin's south inner city over the last six months.

Garda management knew there were dozens of serious criminals attached to gangs in the Kevin Street 'A' district, but were stunned that such a small area could support SIX dangerous mobs with 200 members.

The zero-tolerance approach to the new generation of thugs comes after dozens of shocking incidents of organised crime in the last six months.

Much of the violence is linked to vicious feuds between the six mobs, who are fighting for the control of the drugs trade in the south-inner city. The most serious of the 200 criminals is probably 27-year-old Greg Lynch, who has been on the garda radar for the last three years.

Lynch, who controls a network of 60 criminals from his stronghold in the Coombe, operates in secrecy and will only meet his fellow gangsters in public places for fear gardai are bugging his conversations.

He is a convicted heroin dealer who was mentored by Freddie Thompson and has links with drug barons Paul Rice and Gerard 'Hatchet' Kavanagh.

Arrested

His growth has not gone unnoticed by rivals in Dublin. Last December gardai arrested Jonathan Gill in St James's Street and believe they foiled an assassination bid on Lynch.

Gill is in custody in Northern Ireland and appeared in court last week with PSNI officers objecting to him being given bail, claiming the Malahide Road native was the boss of a criminal gang in north Dublin.

Not far behind him in the criminal pecking order is Basin Street gang boss Aaron Rattigan.

A cousin of faded mob boss Brian Rattigan, the 22-year-old is seen as being a key player in gangland and his gang of 20 members is especially violent.

The Rattigan mob is involved in a vicious feud with two rival gangs in and he has been regularly targeted. In October last year petrol bombs were thrown at his home in Hanover Street, while the home of one of his associates, Zachary Purcell, was also targeted.

Intelligence led gardai to search a premises in a nearby flats complex. They arrested and charged a man with possession of explosives and the next day the Rattigan faction hit back and a shot was fired through a car door.

Nobody was injured, but gardai flooded Basin Street and carried out two dozen searches. They recovered several pipe bombs and guns and arrested four known young criminals.

Just days later six Real IRA members were spotted at the flats and were stopped and searched by gardai. Then a relation of Aaron Rattigan was stopped at the flats and was found to be carrying a butcher's knife. He told gardai his life was under threat and that he was carrying the knife for his own protection.

A gang figure attached to the Basin Street gang, Owen Gaffney (23), has also been targeted by rival mobs. Last July he and Philip Finnegan were at Lower Basin Street when a passing car fired five shots at them. Neither of the pair were hurt and they refused to cooperate with gardai, as did several witnesses who saw what happened.

Bloody



WHACKED: Thompson loyalists shot Gerard Eglington

Philip Finnegan has been targeted by rival mobsters on more than one occasion. In December two rival outfits ran into each other in McDonald's on Grafton Street and a bloody brawl broke out between half-a-dozen people.

Later that day a hatchet was thrown through the front window of the 21- year-old's home at Mary Aikenhead House but no complaint was made.

Two other members of the gang are brothers Paul and Adam Graham. Paul (23), was recently jailed for five years after being caught with €35,000 worth of heroin.

Adam (22), is facing a sentence after a joyriding incident on the South Circular Road where he ran over a garda bicycle in a stolen BMW.

Another criminal who is being regularly stopped and searched by gardai is Leroy Dumbrell (26). Dumbrell is part of the notorious crime family from Inchicore and is well known to gardai.

Last October he appeared in court charged with rioting in Mountjoy jail in 2009. He was the leader of a group of inmates who attacked prison officers, leaving three in hospital.

Demand

Just before Christmas Dumbrell was arrested along with another man outside a house in Inchicore. Gardai believe Dumbrell was there to demand money for a drugs debt. He was arrested but released without charge.

Two of Dumbrell's brothers, Leonard and Tommy, are also regarded as being senior gang figures and are among the gardai's targets. Leonard is only 25 but has over 100 criminal convictions, while Tommy 'Scarface' Dumbrell has a fearsome reputation.

The gang of around 40 criminals based in St Teresa's Gardens include several former members of the Thompson gang.

One of the main men is 25-year-old Paul Gray,who is Ritchie Thompson's brotherin- law and a former driver for Freddie.

The membership of this outfit includes half-a-dozen young men who are just 16 and 17 years old.

Sean Connolly is the leader of the Bluebell gang of 20 people, which is very active in serious crime.

Connolly was arrested last July after several shots were fired into the front window of a house in Bluebell. There was not enough evidence to charge him and the 34-year-old is extremely feared in the area.

He is regarded as being a serious player with links to the Real IRA and the old Brian Rattigan gang.

Fireworks



HIT: Declan O’Reilly was shot in front of his son

He is currently before the Special Criminal Court charged with the murder of gangland don Eamon Kelly last December. It is business as usual for his gang despite his absence, with his younger brother Ronan taking charge.

Last September convicted drug dealer and killer Declan O'Reilly was shot dead on the South Circular Road as he returned from picking up fireworks with his young son.

Gangsters associated with Freddie Thompson were responsible for the assassination, in retaliation for O'Reilly stabbing Derek Glennon to death in Mountjoy prison.

A member of the gang based in Vincent Street is suspected of luring O'Reilly to his death.

Pals of O'Reilly have since sought revenge against the 23-year-old and last month two hoax pipe bombs were placed outside his home in Dublin 8.

Gardai believe that the life of this man is under imminent danger and he has been given security advice. He is regarded as being a ruthless criminal who was pals with O'Reilly but had no problem about setting him up to be killed.

He is one of the prime targets of the new gang initiative as his gang is involved in a separate feud with a drugs gang in nearby Rathmines.

Another Vincent Street native being investigated is 21-year-old Adam Howe. Adam, who has no serious convictions, is the brother of former Thompson gang members Dean and Morgan Howe.

Although the six new mobs are separate and distinct to the Freddie Thompson and Brian Rattigan gangs, they still have associations with their criminal mentors and are happy to target relations of criminals involved in the original Crumlin-Drimnagh feud.

Wayne McNally was a senior enforcer for the Brian Rattigan gang before being jailed for 13 years for the attempted murder of a bouncer.Young criminals loyal to Thompson have consistently targeted relations of McNally.

Horrors

His mother was attacked with a wheel brace in a Dublin 8 pub, while last September his innocent brother Stephen was stabbed in the arm.

Another young man who has witnessed the horrors of the Crumlin- Drimnagh feud at first hand is Kenneth Roche. The 21-year-old saw two of his older brothers murdered in the feud, but is involved in the Aaron Rattigan gang and was the best friend of Gerard Eglington, who was whacked by Thompson loyalists last year.

In the last three weeks gardai have seized several firearms, pipe bombs and petrol bombs from the six new mobs and hope that the new gang unit will severely limit their activities.

THE GROG FATHERS
Drug lords lived it up in jail but party was well and truly over

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SCUM: Gilligan is still banged up

THIS PRISON snap shows three former drugs godfathers defiantly toasting their homemade hooch in the country's maximum security prison in Portlaoise. Despite posing under the Ferrari flag, it still hasn't dawned on 'Warehouse' John Gilligan, 'King Scum' Tony Felloni and Michael 'Roly' Cronin that life in the fast lane has come to a juddering halt - for good.

They're all smiles for the camera in another of our behind bars shots, as Gilligan gives the fingers and Felloni - who's missing one on his left hand - manages a flimsy wave. The lags, who once thought they were untouchable, were celebrating Gilligan's first year in prison with a cake washed down with home-made alcohol, his fondness for which landed him a 56-day stretch in solitary last year. But as time would tell, the three amigos' luck was about to go from bad to worse. First be freed - Michael 'Roly' Cronin - was shot dead in Dublin's Summerhill three years ago as he chatted with a pal.

Trusted

The 35-year-old heroin trafficker from Ballymun learned the hard way that drug friendships come cheap. He didn't even see the semi-automatic being lifted to the back of his head by someone he trusted enough to allow into the passenger seat of a Northern registered Volvo. Cronin was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 1998 for heroin dealing.

By the time he was released, the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) had seized all his assets, so despite controlling drugs in Ballymun, Finglas and the north inner city, he died broke. He was shot dead at Langrishe Place in January 2011 along with his driver James Maloney (26), on the orders of murdered don and underworld assassin Eamon Dunne.

It was an end as ignominious as the prime of his life - spent partying in tacky prison cells. The second man to be freed in the prison party line-up has not seen any improvement in his own living standards since his release. Tony Felloni was freed in 2011, after being jailed for 20 years in 1996 - the longest drugs sentence of its kind at the time.

The 69-year-old from Dublin's Dominick Street has also been hit by CAB, and when he left prison he carried his possessions in a bin bag as he headed home to his squalid house on James's Walk in Rialto. He fled Sunday World photographer, Liam O'Connor like a man possessed, using a scarf to conceal his face and bolting over the Ha'penny Bridge. The pensioner, who is credited with flooding Dublin with heroin in the 1980s and 1990s has also been spurned by his family - his former wife Anne refers to him as 'pig'.

Marriage



DOWNHILL FROM HERE: Michael Cronin (left) John Gilligan (centre) and Tony Felloni raise a glass inside Portlaoise

Anne has revealed how Tony had beaten her continuously through their marriage. Her last baby, Benito, died a few days after birth when his liver collapsed as a result of her heroin addiction. "I was near comatose in the hospital and he (Tony) was spoonfeeding me heroin," she told murdered reporter, Veronica Guerin.

HIV positive Tony also introduced his children to the horror of heroin addiction. A daughter Ann became hooked on hard drugs at the age of 13 after her dad gave her a job in his business. Their oldest child, Mario Angelo,was jailed in Parkhurst Prison in the UK and diagnosed with full-blown AIDS. Other siblings Luigi and Regina were jailed for drugs offences.

His ex-wife Anne would also claim the deaths of some of Dublin's heroin addicts were down to Tony mixing up heroin with strychnine (rat poison). Father-of-eight Tony fought a 14- year battle for his assets, but lost everything following a life of crime. Sources say he drinks in pubs in the Rialto area and "is a pathetic old man".

The last man smiling in our prison snaps - John Gilligan - has fared no better locked behind bars than his old buddies. In 2002, he was tried and acquitted by the Special Criminal Court for the murder of Veronica Guerin.

His original sentence of 28 years for drug crimes was reduced to 20 on appeal, but he got a further two years in 2002 for threatening to kill two prison officers, another eight months in 2011 for possession of a mobile phone in 2008, and six months in 2012 for possession of a mobile phone in his cell in March 2010.

Crime

Gilligan is due to be released next year, but CAB put his €2m Jessbrook equestrian centre up for sale late last year. And the pint-sized 60-year-old was sent solitary confinement last Christmas after a 56-day stint for drinking his favourite tipple. As our pictures show, a leopard never changes its spots.

THEY ARE the dumb criminals who prove that criminal masterminds are a dying breed.

This week, Ireland's criminals showed there is nothing as thick as thieves,On Monday, two men were jailed for six years for robbing more than £123,000 in life savings from a pensioner in Cork, Instead of laying low, Malcolm Kelly (26) and Ger Ryan (31); were caught "drinking their way through the money" tile very next day.

Elsewhere, a Limerick criminal who posted photos of himself posing with an imitation firearm on Facebook pleaded not guilty to possession of a toy gun.

Thug Ian Flanagan (23),was jailed for seven months in Limerick District Court for possession of a fake handgun.
The court heard how he had pointed the imitation firearm at gardai after they responded to a street brawl in Ballinacurra Weston in September 2011.
In his evidence, he claimed the gun belonged to his younger brother who could have dropped it in the front garden of his home.

He said: "He plays with toy guns and Action Man and has a big box of toy guns.He wants to be a garda when he grows up."
However,the thicko thug had uploaded an image of himself posing with a weapon on the interent.Sticking
This exclusive photo- graph shows Flanagan holding the gun and sticking out his tongue while surrounded by his pals.


On Monday, Malcolm Kelly and Ger Ryan were jailed at Cork Circuit Criminal Court after pleading guilty to the raid.

The court heard how they were arrested after they tried to drink their way through €123,000 they had stolen from an 80-year-old man's home.
Det Garda Padraig Reddington said the pair had found €123,OOO in cash at the house in Kanturk, Co.Cork, last October 14.After the theft they went to a hotel in Cork city where gardai were called as their party was so loud.Staff opened a safe in the room and, with officers present, a large amount of money was found.
Judge Sean 0'Donnabhain jailed both men for six years. Ryan's sentence was suspended for the last year and Kelly's sentence was suspended for the last two years.


BOOZE-UP: Malcolm Kelly
(left) and pal Ger Ryan

HORRIFIC violence exploding inside Irish prisons will be shown for'the first time on Tv.

A new two-part documentary lifts the lid on life behind bars for the country's 4,000 prisoners.

Inmates are shown launching vicious attacks on prison CCTV and prisoners talk openly about the widespread violence that can erupt at any time, just from someone looking at another inmate the wrong way.
One 'man talks of how an inmate was dragged into a shower area with a bootlace round his neck and then slashed across the face requiring 180 stitches.
Hard-pressed prison officers reveal an arsenal of weapons,including a toothbrush with two razor blades attached to its head "because double blade wounds are harder to stitch up".

Murder

The public will see for the first time what doing time really means in Life on the Inside, starting tomorrow night on RTE One.Midas Productions _ gained unprecedented access inside Wheatfield Prison in Dublin and Shelton Abbey in Co. Wicklow, where they filmed over the course of a year.
Men convicted of murder, robbery and drug offences allowed cameras into their. cells to reveal how they ended up in jail and how it affects them and their families.
'In Wheatfield, which holds 700, inmates, 32-year-old Eddie has served eight years of a mandatory life sentence for killing his father.He says: "We are not all monsters. Some of us committed horrible crimes, but most are not horrible people. '

"Some things you have a chance to say sorry for, but sometimes you never get that chance and you have to live with that."
He said 'a life sentence meant there was no release date to aim for.
"We don't know how old our kids will be or who will be alive when we get out," he adds.

Father-of-three Colin (34), from Cork, says he has been in and out of jail for 18 years.
"I did not want to be a criminal but it turned out that way," he says. A former heroin user who turned to crime to feed his habit, Colin has been drug free for six months.
"I am keeping my head down and sticking to myself this time because I want to give my children a life. When I leave here I intend to make amends." Another inmate doing two-and-a-half years for fraud says he never asks prisoners what they are in for because he doesn't want to know.
"That could create tension. Even eye contact can start a row here," he explains.
The documentary follows Colin as he is transferred to open prison Shelton Abbey for good behaviour. At first he is hugely excited, but his mood soon changes.
"I am full of fear and anxiety going to a new prison and meeting new people," 'he confesses. "You come to a new prison and you don't want to put someone's nose out." . After his first night he says: "I would like to be in the other prison. I don't like it. I was out on the green last night and I had the urge to go home." "

A month later, though, he has settled and is determined to keep on the straight and narrow.

"I want to make it up to my children. I have taken knocks in my life but mostly generated by my own activities. I have spent my life blaming o,~hers but I can't hide any more, he says, •
One officer reveals some of the 115 inmates can't handle the free-dom of an open prison,
"There is nothing to stop you walking away except self discipline and willpower, It might be harder to do time," he explains, '

But another officer says he can see inmates' confidence growing the more trust they were given,
Another inmate, Michael, who was locked up after being caught with £340,000 of drugs for supply, says he had never done heroin until he came to prison.
"People say I will use it until I get out of here or until I get used to my sentence, but it doesn't end up like that," he reveals,His sister Cathy says she could not believe Shelton Abbey when she first saw it.

"Is this a- prison? He thinks it's hard, but he does not know how hard it is for everyone else as he does not have to worry about bills.
"I had to fight to go to college, but he gets all these courses handed to him. I have done nothing wrong, but I have to fight to do a course. All they are missing is their liberty."
Michael says someone could go to prison and learn nothing or do a course and try to make a living for themselves when they get out.

Another prisoner adds: "Anyone who thinks it's easy, it is not. Anyone with a family. You get one phone call a day and that's it."
• Life on the Inside, tomorrow 9.3Opm_

MEET THE pensioner killer who is back on the streets and is commuting from Mount joy Prison to his job as a mechanic.

This exclusive photograph shows Francis Palmer leaving the Dublin jail- as he does just after 7.30am every day.

The convicted killer then walks for 15 minutes to a housing estate where he collects his car, before driving to a garage in the Clondalkin area.

Palmer (42), originally from Foxborough Road, Lucan, was at the centre of one of the most brutal crimes of the 1990s, after he shot dead a pensioner during a raid on a home in Co. Tipperary.
Palrner was part of an armed gang that gunned down innocent cattle dealer,Danny Fanning (71), in front of his terrified wife at their home in 1995.

The savage crime lead to calls for a clampdown on Dublin gangs marauding around the countryside. Bizarrely, Palmer's name hit the headlines again in 2005 when it emerged his twin brother was dating pop queen Samantha Mumba,Former male stripper Gary Palmer dated the singer and was regularly photographed with her around Dublin.
A prison source said Francis Palmer commutes between Mount joy and Clondalkin every weekday.

The source told the Sunday World that Palmer is due for permanent release within weeks.
"He is due to get out permanently in the very near future but, until then, he is getting day release most days," he said.

In May 1997, Palmer was jailed for life following a tense trial. The court heard that a gang had targeted Mr Fanning after being told that on market days the elderly farmer often returned home with more than IR£60,000, which he kept in a safe. However, Danny had got rid of the safe when carrying out renovations and tended to avoid cash.

That day he had sold only IR£14,OOO worth of livestock and he had been paid by cheque. The four masked robbers spent an hour ransacking the house before fleeing with a wallet containing just IR£155 and "punishing" Danny by shooting him in the knee.
He bled to death before he could be taken to hospital. The court was told how two men wearing balaclavas and brandishing sawed-off shotguns had burst into the Danny s home and ordered him and his 65-year-old wife Biddy to lie on the floor.

The couple's youngest daughter Rose (26), was forced into the farmhouse by a third masked man wielding a baseball bat.

During the trial, the court heard how Palmer had admitted involvement during interviews with gardai.

Shotguns

He had said: "i was only the driver, I was not in the house."
Palmer had told gardai he had never touched any guns, but knew there was a baseball bat and a sawed-off shotgun.

"He wasn't meant to die;it was only meant to be a warning," he told gardai. After Palmer and a second man, Ivor Sweetman, were convicted, there were angry scenes outside the court from their relatives and friends.
Both Sweetman and Palmer had claimed that they were "fitted up" by gardai. Both made statements that they were involved in the robbery, but refused to sign them.Ivor Sweetman, from Jobstown in Tallaght, had his conviction for murder overturned on appeal in 2000.

THE 'Fat' Freddie Thompson and Brian Rattigan gangs have been replaced by six ruthless new mobs with 200 members, the Sunday World can reveal.

Gardai have declared war on the outfits and have set up an elite new anti-gang squad to crack down on their activities.
The 200 serious criminals, some as young as 16, are operating in just a few square miles in Dublin's south inner city and sources say they are the most dangerous mobsters that gardai have ever encountered.

Bombings

The young thugs have been linked to dozens of incidents of serious crime over the last six months - including murder, pipe bombings and armed robberies.
The new mobs have sprung up from the original Crumlin-Drimnagh feud which has claimed 16 lives, but sources say that Thompson and Rattigan have no control over the latest generation of criminals and are regarded as "yesterday's men".

VVhen Brian 'King Rat' Rattigan was convicted this week of operating a drugs network from his cell not a single criminal turned up in court to pay their respects.He has now been abandoned by his former cohorts and his gang has all but dissolved.'Fat' Freddie is stuck in Spain following his extradition and although he still has supporters, the new gangs have taken over his drug- dealing strongholds,leaving him sidelined.Gardai at Kevin Street station have spent the last three months analysing all serious criminals in their area with links to Thompson and Rattigan and have identified the 200 suspects and six distinct gangs.Senior officers were shocked at the sheer amount of dangerous thugs operating in such a small area and have set up a new unit with orders to get in the faces of criminals and stop and search them on sight.

The anti-gang cops have already started to disrupt the activities of the mobs and all officers in the district have been ordered to harass the mobsters and make their lives hell.
The biggest of the new gangs is based in the Coombe and has an incredible 60 members. The mob is led by convicted thug Greg Lynch and has been linked to drug dealing and armed robberies.
Twenty-eight-year-old Lynch is one of the main targets of the new anti-gang unit and is regarded as a cunning criminal who doesn't talk on mobile phones for fear he is being bugged by cops.

Notorious

The second largest of the gangs is based in the notorious St Teresa's Gardens flats project in Donore Avenue and has reportedly over 40 members.
One of the key figures in this outfit is 25 year-old Paul Gray. He learned the criminal ropes as a driver for key 'Fat' Freddie lieutenant Graham 'the Wig' Whelan.

Gray is the brother in law of Ritchie Thompson and he attacked rival criminal Gerard Eglington in a packed courtroom in July 2011. Eglington was shot dead last year by pals of 'Fat' Freddie. Another mob of 35 gangsters is based in St Vincent Street South, just off Clanbrassil Street in the capital's south-inner city. The leader of this gang is a 23-year-old man who is suspected of setting up his friend Declan O'Reilly to be murdered last September.

The cunning criminal contacted a hitman who was lying in wait on the South Circular Road as O'Reilly was walking home after collecting fireworks with his young son.

O'Reilly was whacked in cold blood and the young boss is now under death threat and his home has been pipe bombed.Gardai say he had no qualms about setting up his mate. He is one of the prime targets of the new gang initiative.

There are a further 15 gangsters operating out of Bluebell. The leader of this faction is Sean Connolly. Connolly is regarded as being a serious player in gang activity and is currently before the Special Criminal Court charged with the murder of gangland don Eamon Kelly last December.
The 34-year-old is said to be a dangerous figure with links to the Real IRA, the old Rattigan gang and 'King Ratt's' heir apparent himself Aaron Rattigan.

Aaron Rattigan - who is a cousin of Brian - is the boss of a gang of around 20 young men based in Basin Street in Dublin 8.
The 22-year-old has become a major gangland player over the last three years and has kept the bloody feud with the Thompson mob going, orchestrating several violent attacks. With Brian Rattigan serving a life sentence for murder, Aaron became the day-ta-day boss and soon had a loyal group of followers around him,including Kenneth Roche, whose two brothers were murdered as part of the Crumlin-Drimnagh feud. Rattigan is regarded as being extremely ruthless and is one of the most dangerous of the new breed of 200 thugs.

Murdered

Another 25 criminals have been identified as operating out of Fatima Mansions, Maryland and Dolphin House. A key player in this mob is 'Fat' Freddie's cousin Eoin O'Connor,The 29-year-old has risen in prominence since 2005 when his face was badly slashed at a music festival by murdered gangsters Gerard Eglington and Anthony Cannon.
O'Connor, who was jailed in 2010 for assaulting a garda, is looked up to by young criminal associates. He acquired the nickname 'Scarface' after the slashing and is one of the new gang unit's main targets. Despite the lack of resources available to them, gardai are determined to take the fight to the young criminals with an in-your-face policing approach. They are maintaining a visible presence on the streets where the gangs operate and are carrying out daily checkpoints and patrols as well as intelligence led searches on suspects'houses.
Senior gardai are worried because many of the 200 or so criminals identified are very young, some still being as young as 16. However, they are all regarded as already being hardened criminals with designs to replace 'Fat' Freddie Thompson and Brian Rattigan as the next generation of 'Mr Bigs'.
Although the six gangs are based in the south-inner city, some of the members are from Crumlin and Drimnagh. Gardai in Kevin Street are leading the operation, although they are working closely with other stations, including Crumlin, Sundrive Road, Pearse Street and Kilmainham. The Emergency Response Unit and Organised Crime Unit are also involved and are mounting joint operations.

SuccessFul

If the new unit is successful it could be extended to other garda districts across Dublin. Some of the original members of the Freddie Thompson and Brian Rattigan gangs supply drugs to the new criminals but moved away from the feud as they got older and the influence of their bosses waned. The main supplier is now Graham Whelan.

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THE 'Fat' Freddie Thompson and Brian Rattigan mobs are no more and have been replaced by SIX new gangs with an incredible 200 members, the Sunday World can reveal .
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Gardai have set up a new elite anti-gang unit and have declared war on the vicious new breed of gangsters, some of whom are as young as 16.
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The mobsters have emerged from the ashes of the bloody Crumlin/Drimnagh feud and are involved in murders, armed robberies and pipe bombings.
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The new crews are operating within just a few square miles in Dublin's south-inner city and gardai say they are the most dangerous criminals they have ever encountered.

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THE NEW garda anti-gang unit has been set up as a response to a serious increase in mob activity in Dublin's south inner city over the last six months.

Garda management knew there were dozens of serious criminals attached to gangs in the Kevin Street 'N district, but were stunned that such a small area could support SIX dangerous mobs with 200 members.
The zero-tolerance approach to the new generation of thugs comes after dozens of shocking incidents of organised crime in the last six months.

Much of the violence is linked to vicious feuds between the six mobs,who are fighting for the control of the drugs trade in the south-inner city.
The most serious of the 200 criminals is probably 27-year-old Greg Lynch, who has been on the garda radar for the last three years.

Lynch, who controls a network of 60 criminals from his stronghold in the Coombe, operates in secrecy and will only meet his fellow gangsters in public places for fear gardai are bugging his conversations.
He is a convicted heroin dealer who was mentored by Freddie Thompson and has links with drug barons Paul Rice and Gerard 'Hatchet' Kavanagh,

Arrested

His growth has not gone unnoticed by rivals in Dublin. Last December gardai arrested Jonathan Gill in St James's Street and believe they foiled an assassination bid on Lynch.

Gill is in custody in Northern Ireland and appeared in court last week with PSNI officers objecting to him being given bail, claiming the Malahide Road native was the boss of a criminal gang in north Dublin.
Not far behind him in the criminal pecking order is Basin Street gang boss Aaron Rattigan,

A cousin of faded mob boss Brian Rattigan, the 22-year-old is seen as being a key player in gangland and his gang of 20 members is especially violent. The Rattigan mob is involved in a vicious feud with two rival gangs in and he has been regularly targeted.

In October last year petrol bombs were thrown at his home in Hanover Street,while the home of one of his associates,Zacharv Purcell, was also targeted.

Intelligence led gardai to search a premises in a nearby flats complex. They arrested and charged a man with possession of explosives and the next day the Rattigan faction hit back and a shot was fired through a car door.

Nobody was injured, but gardai flooded Basin Street and carried out two dozen searches. They recovered several pipe bombs and guns and arrested four known young criminals.
Just days later six Real IRA members were spotted at the flats and were stopped and searched by gardai.

Then a relation of Aaron Rattigan was stopped at the flats and was found to be carrying a butcher's knife. He told gardai his life was under threat and that he was carrying the knife for his own protection.

A gang figure attached to the Basin Street gang, Owen Gaffney (23), has also been targeted by rival mobs. Last July he and Philip Finnegan were at Lower Basin Street when a passing car fired five shots at them. Neither of the pair were hurt and they refused to cooperate with gardai, as did several witnesses who saw what happened.

Bloody

Philip Finnegan has been targeted by rival mobsters on more than one occasion. In December two rival outfits ran into each other in McDonald's on Grafton Street and a bloody brawl broke out between half-a-dozen people.

Later that day a hatchet was thrown through the front window of the 21-year-old's home at Mary Aikenhead O'Zack Purcell Owen Gaffney House but no complaint was made.
Two other members of the gang are brothers Paul and Adam Graham. Paul (23), was recently jailed for five years after being caught with CS,OOO worth of heroin.

Adam (22), is facing a sentence after a joyriding incident on the South Circular Road where he ran over a garda bicycle in a stolen BMw.

Another criminal who is being regularly stopped and searched by gardai is Leroy Dumbrell (26). Dumbrell is part of the notorious crime family from Inchicore and is well known to gardai.

Last October he appeared in court charged with rioting in Mount joy jail in 2009. He was the leader of a group of inmates who attacked prison officers, leaving three in hospital.

Demand

Just before Christmas Dumbrell was arrested along with another man outside a house in Inchicore. Gardai believe Dumbrell was there to demand money for a drugs debt. He was arrested but released without charge.

Two of Dumbrell's brothers, Leonard and Tommy, are also regarded as being senior gang figures and are among the gardai's targets. Leonard is only 25 but has over 100 criminal convictions,while Tommy 'Scarface' Dumbrell has a fearsome reputation.
The gang of around 40 criminals based in St Teresa s Gardens include several former members of the Thompson gang. One of the main men is 25-year-old Paul Gray, who is Ritchie Thompson s brother-in-law and a former driver for Freddie.

The membership of this outfit includes half-a-dozen young men who are just 16 and 17 years old.

Sean Connolly is the leader of the Bluebell gang of 20 people, which is very active in serious crime.

Connolly was arrested last July after several shots were fired into the front window of a house in Bluebell. There was not enough evidence to charge him and the 34·year-old is extremely feared in the area.
He is regarded as being a serious player with links to the Real IRA and the old Brian Rattigan gang.

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He is currently before the Special Criminal Court charged with the murder of gangland don Eamon Kelly last December. It is business as usual for his gang despite his absence, with his younger brother Ronan taking charge.
Last September convicted drug dealer and killer Declan O'Reilly was shot dead on the South Circular Road as he returned from picking up fireworks with his young son.
Gangsters associated with Freddie Thompson were responsible for the assassination, in retaliation for O'Reilly stabbing Derek Glennon to death in Mount joy prison.

A member of the gang based in Vincent Street is suspected of luring O'Reilly to his death.

Pals of O'Reilly have since sought revenge against the 23-year-old and last month two hoax pipe bombs were placed outside his home in Dublin 8.Gardai believe that the life of this man is under imminent danger and he has been given security advice. He is regarded as being a ruthless criminal who was pals with O'Reilly) but had no problem about setting him up to be killed.
He is one of the prime targets of the new gang initiative as his gang is involved in a separate feud with a drugs gang in nearby Rathmines.

Another Vincent Street native being investigated is 21-year-old Adam Howe. Adarn, who has no serious convictions, is the brother of former Thompson gang members Dean and Morgan Howe.

Although the six new mobs are separate and distinct to the Freddie
Thompson and Brian Rattigan gangs,they still have associations with their criminal mentors and are happy to target relations of criminals involved in the original Crumlin-Drimnagh feud.
Wayne Menally was a senior enforcer for the Brian Rattigan gang before being jailed for 13 years for the attempted murder of a bouncer. Young criminals loyal to Thompson have consistently targeted relations of MeN ally.

Horrors -

His mother was attacked with a wheel brace in a Dublin 8 pub, while last September his innocent brother Stephen was stabbed in the arm.

Another young man who has witnessed the horrors of the Crumlin-Drimnagh feud at first hand is Kenneth Roche. The 21-year-old saw two of his older brothers murdered in the feud, but is involved in the Aaron Rattigan gang and was the best friend of Gerard Eglington, who was whacked by Thompson loyalists last year.

In the last three weeks gardai have seized several firearms, pipe bombs and petrol bombs from the six new mobs and hope that the new gang unit will severely limit their activities.

GARDAI are working on the theory that a hitman travelled from England to murder Real IRA gang leader Alan Ryan.

Investigators have CCTV footage of a man who travelled to Belfast and got on a flight to Manchester following the cold-blooded killing in September last year.

Gardai received intelligence that the man captured on CCTV was hired by a north Dublin drugs gang to carry out Ryan's murder.
Detectives arrested a 26-year-old man from Coolock during the week in relation to the killing.

He had just been released from prison where he was serving a short sentence for road traffic offences when gardai arrested him.
He was previously pepper sprayed by gardai in a driving incident in Coolock in October 2011.

At the time he was with Jonathan Gill (31), from Malahide Road in Dublin, who this week was named as a leader of an organised crime gang in Dublin.
The 26-year-old arrested this week, who has convictions for drug dealing, is the fifth person to be arrested in relation to the killing.
The arrest comes after Gill and his associate Paschal Kelly (47)- originally from Coolock - were arrested in Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh, earlier this month and charged with possession of criminal property.


Cash

They were told by a judge in the North that they would not get bail after PSNI officers outlined in court how the two men were a flight risk and had access to large quantities of cash.

The joint PSNI/Garda operation recovered sums of €65,826 and £2,669 (stg) in cash along with 24 mobile phones.

They also found a passport which had a photograph of Kelly but had the name Brendan Duffy which was the name Kelly gave police when he was stopped.
The court heard the apartment the men were staying in had been rented by Anthony Heaney who in a witness statement told officers he had sublet it to Kelly. Explaining how he believed the men were a flight risk, a PSNI officer said: "We believe these people are leaders of a criminal gang."

The court also heard of an active threat to Kelly's life.Judge Gerard Trainor described Kelly as a "seasoned, practised criminal" with convictions for robbery and escaping lawful custody. The men were refused bail and remanded in cus- tody to appear again at Fermanagh Court by video link from Maghaberry Prison on March 11.

It is understood both Kelly and Gill are under threat from dissident republicans.

Many of Ryan's former associates have been booted out of the dissident group since his killing. Belfast man Fat Deccy Smith, who was a close pal of Ryan, was shot in the leg by the terror group in Dublin in January.
The dissident organisation, who are calling themselves the IRA since a merger with other republican groups, booted Smith out after accusing him of keeping extortion money that should have been sent up the North.

Punishment:

Another associate, Nathan Kinsella, was shot in the knee by the group in November last year.Both punishment attacks were carried out as part of what was described as "in-house cleaning" of the Dublin branch of the IRA. Several other key Ryan associates have been kicked out as part of the restructuring process. Reports this week suggested three men have now been appointed to direct operations in the capital.

The middle-aged men live in Finglas, Coolock and Tallaght.Meanwhile, locals in Sligo say former associates of Ryan have been making extortion demands in the county.

Gardai stopped four men, including two brothers from Dublin, were arrested in Castlebaldwin last month and found balaclavas in their car. The arrest happenedshortly after four masked men called to the family home of man demanding £40,000.

The men arrested had links to Sligo man Aaron Nealis, a pal of Alan Ryan, who was shot in the leg during the attack on Ryan. The brothers who were arrested are from Baldoyle. One of them has been involved in drug dealing.
Gardai previously found one kilo of cocaine belonging to the drug dealer at his then-girlfriend's house in Dun Laoghaire in south Dublin.
Sources said he has also robbed Nigerian drug dealers using the name of the Real IRA.
His mother was jailed in England in 2004 after she was caught up in a multi-million euro international drug network run by British gang boss Owen Clarke.

Sources in Sligo say the group has been making a number of extortion demands in the county using the name of the IRA even,though most of Ryari's former cronies have been kicked out of the organisation.
Locals also claim a businesswoman living in Sligo was having an affair with Ryan at the time of his murder. Other key associates of Ryan in Dublin have been living in fear since his killing.

Two well-known members, originally from the north-side of the city, have been living together in the south city in recent weeks.
Gardai recently warned one of the men his life is in danger. Homes of both men have been attacked since Ryan's murder.

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THIS PRISON snap shows three former drugs godfathers defiantly toasting their home-made hooch in the country's maximum security prison in Portlaoise.

Despite posing under the Ferrari flag, it still hasn't dawned on 'Warehouse' John Gilligan, 'King Scum' Tony Felloni and Michael 'Roly' Cronin that life in the fast lane has come to a juddering halt - for good.

They're all smiles for the camera in another of our behind bars shots, as Gilligan gives the fingers and Felloni -who's missing one on his left hand manages a flimsy wave.
The lags, who once thought they were untouchable, were celebrating Gilligan's first year in prison with a cake washed down with home-made alcohol, his fond- ness for which landed him a 56-day stretch in solitary last year.

But as time would tell, the three amigos' luck was about to go from bad to worse.
First be freed - Michael 'Roly' Cronin -was shot dead in Dublin's Summerhill three years ago as he chatted with a pal.

Trusted

The 35-year-old heroin trafficker from Ballymun learned the hard way that drug friendships come cheap. He didn't even see the semi-automatic being lifted to the back of his head by someone he trusted enough to allow into the passenger seat of a Northern registered Volvo.Cronin was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 1998 for heroin dealing.
By the time he was released,the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) had seized all his assets, so despite controlling drugs in Ballymun, Finglas and the north inner
city, he died broke.
He was shot dead at Langrishe Place in January 2011 along with his driver .Iames Maloney (26), on the orders of murdered don and underworld assassin Eamon Dunne. It was an end as ignominious as the prime of his life - spent parrying in tacky prison cells.
The second man to be freed in the prison party line-up has not seen any improvement in his own living standards since his release. Tony Felloni was freed in 2011,after being jailed for 20 years in 1996 - the longest drugs sentence of its kind at the time.
The 69-year-old from Dublin's Dominick Street has also been hit by CAB, and when he left prison he carried his possessions in a bin bag as he headed home to his squalid house on James's Walk in Rialto.

He fled Sunday World photographer,Liam O'Connor like a man possessed, using a scarf to conceal his face and bolting over the Ha'penny BridgeThe pensioner, who is credited with flooding Dublin with heroin in the 1980s and 1990s has also been spurned by his family - his former wife Anne refers to him as 'pig'. Marriage
Anne has revealed how Tony had beaten her continuously through their marriage. Her last baby, Benito, died a few days after birth when his liver collapsed as a result of her heroin addiction.
"I was near comatose in the hospital and he (Tony) was spoonfeeding me heroin," she told murdered reporter, Veronica Guerin.
HIV positive Tony also introduced his children to the horror of heroin addiction. A daughter Ann became hooked on hard drugs at the age of 13 after her dad gave her a job in his business.

Their oldest child, Mario Angelo, was jailed in Parkhurst Prison in the UK and diagnosed with full-blown AIDS.
Other siblings Luigi and Regina were jailed for drugs offences.

His ex-wife Anne would also claim the deaths of some of Dublin's heroin addicts were down to Tony mixing up heroin with struchnine (rat poison).

Father-of-eight Tony fought a 14- year battle for his assets, but lost everything following a life of crime.

Sources say he drinks in pubs in the Rialto area and "is a pathetic old man".

The last man smiling in our prison snaps

John Gilligan - has fared no better locked behind bars than his old buddies.In 2002, he was tried and acquitted by the Special Criminal Court for the murder of Veronica Guerin. His original sentence of 28 years for drugS crimes was reduced to 20 on appeal, but he got a further two years in 2002 for threatening to kill two prison officers, another eight months in 2011 for possession of a mobile phone in 2008, and six months in 2012 for possession of a mobile phone in his cell in March 2010.

Crime

Gilligan is due to be released next year, but CAB put his €2m Jessbrook equestrian centre up for sale late last year.
And the pint-sized 60-year-old was sent solitary confinement last Christmas after a 56-day stint for drinking his favourite tipple.

As our pictures show, a leopard never changes its spots.

"FINISHED TILL NEXT WEEK"

This is the guy who ratted out whitey bulger & pat nee for gun smuggling

Informant claims IRA plans 'big show' in Britain to mark Easter Rising


DISSIDENT republicans determined to make a "big show" in the near future are plotting gun or bomb attacks on mainland Britain, according to a former IRA commander who has turned informant.

"As we are speaking, there are people somewhere in Ireland thinking about how they can bomb England," Sean O'Callaghan told London's 'Independent on Sunday'. "There is no doubt in my mind that there will be serious attempts at an attack."

With the centenary of the Easter Rising, which marked the birth of modern Irish republicanism, in three years' time, we are in a "very dangerous period", according to Mr O'Callaghan, who now lives in England for his own safety.

"There's an inevitable momentum as you move towards 2016, as dissidents become more determined to be relevant – they'll be very keen to prove they are the big show in town on the republican side."

Speaking after a presentation on the dissident threat to experts at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR), King's College London, last week, he added: "If they can undertake operations here, they will."

The dissidents are "trying to kill people all the time", claimed the 59-year-old former member of Sinn Fein's national executive and a veteran of more than 60 terrorist attacks in the 1970s.

Once the head of the IRA's southern command, Mr O'Callaghan turned himself over to the British authorities in 1988. He served eight years in prison for two murders before being granted early release by the Queen.

His warning comes amid raised tensions in Northern Ireland, after weeks of rioting provoked by a decision to stop routinely flying the Union flag on Belfast City Hall.

Commenting on Mr O'Callaghan's claims, Dr John Bew, ICSR director, said: "There's a very small prospect of any return to the Troubles. However, do these people pose a serious threat to life? Absolutely – there's no question about that. Are they trying to kill police officers every day? Yes." He added: "The fantasy of any dissident is damage in London, because it is ultimately about British occupation of Ireland. It is not an empty threat, but they do not have the same network or sympathetic diaspora that the Provos had."

Two shot near attack that led to IRA arrest.


ALAN MURRAY – 17 FEBRUARY 2013

Two men have been shot and wounded just two streets from the scene of a 'punishment shooting' for which a notorious IRA bomber was arrested.

The incident, on Friday evening in the Oldpark area of north Belfast, came just three days after an 18-year-old youth was shot at the Flax Centre in Ardoyne Avenue.

Sean Kelly was arrested by the Police Service of Northern Ireland the following day and held for questioning for 36 hours before being released without charge.

Sinn Fein has denied that the IRA man, who was given nine life sentences for his role in the 1993 Shankill bombing, had any involvement in the attack on Padraig McAleenan.

The victim of that shooting – who has several criminal convictions for theft, assault and riotous behaviour – underwent emergency surgery after it was discovered that one of the bullets had penetrated his bladder.

Kelly was released from the Maze in 2000 under the prisoner-release terms negotiated alongside the Good Friday Agreement and has been prominent alongside leading republicans in north Belfast during nationalist protests against Orange Order parades.

He is viewed as a 'hate figure' among loyalists for his role in the bombing of Frizzell's fish shop in October 1993, in which fellow bomber Thomas Begley and eight Protestant civilians were killed.

It is not known if Friday evening's shooting has any connection with Tuesday's attack on McAleenan or the arrest of Kelly, but on Thursday morning masked men entered the Flax Centre in Ardoyne, locked staff in an office and then removed footage from a CCTV system which may have recorded the McAleenan shooting.

Sinn Fein's Gerry Kelly claimed that the PSNI's serious crime branch had "questions to answer in arresting a high-profile republican who has always supported the peace process".

Kelly's licence was revoked briefly in 2005 after it was alleged that he had been involved in violence in north Belfast.

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The jury in the trial of two men accused of assaulting another man with a meat cleaver is set to begin its deliberations today.

Alan Wilson (33), of New Street Gardens, and David Crowley (36), of New Bride Street, have pleaded not guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to trespass while committing assault causing harm at Dromheath Drive in Blanchardstown on June 3, 2009.

Crowley has also pleaded not guilty to a second charge of unlawfully possessing a firearm on the same occasion.

DRUGS BARON Greg lynch has walked free from court after having a six-month sentence reduced to 200 hours community service.

Lynch (27), from the Oliver Bond Flats in Dublin's inner city, is believed to head up a tightly-knit gang supplying heroin and cannabis across the city.
The convicted heroin dealer is the number one target for gardai investigating the drugs trade in the south inner city and has been dubbed the new 'Fat' Freddie Thompson.
However, Lynch managed to avoid a six-month prison sentence for driving offences on Monday - ironically after claiming to be battling with a drug problem.


Reformed -

The sentence was reduced to 200 hours community service on appeal in Dublin District Court. Despite his claims in court to be reformed, the Sunday-World can reveal that the burly gangster has developed close links to a number of notorious criminals based in the Finglas area of North Dublin in recent months.
He was recently spotted in a car registered to convicted armed robber David 'Sos' Mulvey.

Mulvey, from Berryfield Drive, Finglas, is a close associate of the notorious Bradley brothers and has served a sentence for gun possession.

In 2006, Mulvey was jailed for the attempted robbery of a post office in Cabra on the city's northside and possession of a double-barrelled shotgun in two separate incidents.
During his time in jail, Mulvey was at the centre of a massive controversy after a prison officer was charged with smuggling contraband into him in Mount joy.

Shamed -

Shamed prison officer Dillon O'Brien pleaded guilty in December 2009 to smuggling a bottle of vodka and a mobile phone to prisoner Mulvey and a mobile phone to convicted murderer Thomas Hinchon.

He also admitted conspiring with others to bring cocaine to Mulvey, heroin to Hinchon and two mobile phones to Donnagh O'Brien between January 2005 and March 2007, and to having cocaine in his home on March 15,2007.

A source said Lynch has long-term links with associates of brothers, Wayne and Alan 'Fatpuss' Bradley. "Lynch was friendly with some of the Bradley gang when he was in Wheatfield.

He was a close friend of Karl Browne, one of 'Fatpuss' Bradley's best pals, who was killed in a motor- bike crash," the souce added.
In 2004, Lynch was jailed for eight years after he was caught with heroin worth more than €400,000.

The then teenager was spotted handing over the drugs to another man in the car
park oj the Red Cow Inn, Naas Road, Dublin on October 1, 2003.
Lynch pleaded guilty to the unlawful possession of heroin with a market value in excess of €13,000 for sale or supply.

Lynch has close links to some of Ireland's most notorious underworld figures. His dad, Gerard 'Bra' Brady, is a close pal of godfather Christy Kinahan who also lived in the Oliver Bond Flats for years.

Lynch's uncle is exiled heroin dealer Gerard 'Hatchet' Kavanagh, who is currently based in Spain. It is believed that Lynch is a regular visitor to Kavanagh's villa in Malaga on the Costa Del Crime.
The gang boss is also a close associate of convicted armed robber Paul Rice.

Gardai believe Lynch has taken over from 'Fat' Freddie Thompson as the biggest drugs supplier in large parts of the city.

Despite being rivals, Lynch is said to be friends with Thompson and lives just metres from Freddie's mum in the Marylands estate, South Dublin.

GANGLAND murder victim Philip O'Toole was believed to have been set up by former associates after falling foul of a mob boss known as 'the Gutter Man'.

Gardai arrested a man in Wicklow yesterday and are questioning him in relation to the killing.
The body of the criminal, from Bray, Co. Wicklow, was found dumped in a ravine in Trooperstown, Co. Wicklow, on Friday following a tip-off to gardai.
He went missing on January 7.

Gunpoint -

It is believed he willingly met his killers and was taken to the area at gunpoint before being shot in the head.

Speaking after the body was discovered, his father Brendan said they have not stopped looking for him since the day he went missing.
"I had been looking in every field, ditch and pipe. Last Sunday, I was up searching in Trooperstown for him. I would have been just 200 metres away from him. I probably passed by him," he said.

Brendan appealed for people to come forward with information on his son's death, adding: "Please, I'm asking as his father, have it in your heart and come for-
ward. I want to get justice for my son."

O'Toole survived a gun attack in 2011 when he was shot in the stomach in the Kilgarron Park area of Enniskerry, shortly after his release from prison. He was serving a four-year sentence for possession of a sawn-off shotgun.

In the weeks after that shooting sinister graffiti appeared around Bray making threats against O'Toole and his associates.
Thugs then opened fire on O'Toole's father's house using a Mac10 machine pistol
"They opened fire on my house with a machine gun last September," said Brendan O'Toole, pointing to the bullet holes in the front of his home in Bray.

Miracle -

"They put 27 bullets into my house.

There were children in the house at the time and five people here altogether. It was a miracle nobody was killed."

It is believed O'Toole was targeted by associates of criminal Brendan Kinlan,aka 'the Gutter Man', who was arrested in the UK in November after being caught with €2m worth of amphetamines.

Kinlan is originally from Bray and is believed to be involved in supplying drugs to the Wicklow area. O'Toole, who had almost 40 convictions including drugs convictions, was also questioned over a shooting in Finglas in 2010.

Glen McGrath (40), was shot and seriously injured near the Cappagh Nua pub on the Barry Road in Finglas on December 30 but survived.

Philip's dad said he.did not want to talk about his son's "business", but hoped it would not put people off coming forward with information.

"I can't talk about that side of things, except to say he never talked to me about his business," Brendan said. "He was a good lad. He was well liked. He phoned his mother every day.

Sources told the Sunday World Philip had fallen out with a local drugs gang.

Emenies -

"He had made a bid to go out on his own in the drugs business and he made dangerous enemies," a source said.
Kinlan ( 41), from Bray, appeared in court in the UK after crashing a van on the Ml motorway with €2m worth of drugs.

It is understood his incarceration in Armley Prison in Leeds had left a vacuum in the Bray drugs scene, causing tensions to ratchet up a notch,

Philip O'Toole, who had a seven-month-old baby, knew his life was under threat and relocated after he was shot.

"He was hiding in Arklow," Brendan said, "Nobody knew he'd gone, he kept it very quiet, However, he had moved to Arklow as he was becoming worried about his safety,"
"When last seen, he was driving a blue BMW car with the reg 99-D-88221. This car was located by Gardai on the Lower Dargle Road, Bray, on January 9.

His family are relieved to have found the body and he is no longer one of the 'gangland disappeared' - people murdered and disposed of by professional criminals.

One of the most notorious cases from the annals of gangland history is the murder of Jock Corbally in 1996.

He was beaten and tortured before being buried,possibly still alive, in a field in Co. Kildare.

PJ 'the Psycho' Judge, who was shot dead in 1997, is thought to have carried out the murder after Corbally beat him up on the street.

In 2008, gang boss David 'Baby Face' Lyndsay and Alan Napper disappeared.

A feud started because Micka Kelly owed them money. It's believed that in July that year Kelly lured them north of the border, where they were both killed and dumped in the Irish Sea.

Evidence -

Christopher 'Git' Gilroy is believed to have disappeared in Spain in 2009. He was believed to have carried out the 2009 murders of Michael 'Roly' Cronin and James Maloney in Summerhill, Dublin, on behalf of Eamon 'the Don' Dunne.

Drug addict Gilroy was manipulated into carrying out the killings, but left vital forensic evidence behind.

However, 'the Don' was anxious not to leave any loose ends and Gilroy's fate was sealed.
There have also been a number of people who had no involvement in crime but crossed paths crossed with dangerous gangsters, with lethal consequences.

A GROUP of senior terror bosses have relocated to Dublin from the North to interrogate members of Alan Ryan's RIRA mob, a senior dissident source has revealed.

The terror bosses came down to the capital last week and are currently staying at an address in Tallaght, south Dublin.
The group includes a notorious killer who was released from prison as part of the Belfast Agreement, as well as the man suspected of killing two soldiers outside the Massereene Barracks in Antrim town.

The interrogation squad is under the direction of veteran republican Paddy Fox, one of the most feared terrorists in the North.

Fox (41), is a convicted bombmaker and was regarded as the leader of the terror group Oglaigh na hEireann, which merged recently with the RIRA.

His parents were shot dead by the UVF in 1992 while he was serving a jail sentencce in the Maze prison and he has doS(- p,-r'-;oll,,1 links 10 the overall leader of the new IRA.
Fox, a prominent Tyrone republican, is a self-confessed dissident who was abducted by the Provos in 1999 because of his opposition to the Good Friday Aggreement.

It is believed that each member of so called Dublin brigade of the RIRA will he individually interviewed about their activities over the last two years.

Extorted -

RIRA bosses suspect a number of Alan Ryan's close associates were pocketing cash extorted from gangs who operate cannabis grow houses in north Dublin.

A large part of the investigation is being carried out by a close associate of terrorist Dominic 'Mad Dog' McGlinchey, who is a senior figure in the organisation.
The violent criminal is a suspect in the murder of PSNI Constable Stephen Carroll at the Massereene Barracks in Antrim.

An ex-Provo, who was released from prison in the 1990s under the Belfast Agreement, has also moved to Tallaght.
He was convicted of shooting an RUC officer at a checkpoint in the 1980s, but has remained off the radar since his release.

A senior dissident has told the Sunday World that a "root-and-branch" review of the organisation in Dublin is being carried out.
"All organisational activities will be moved to the Tallaght area and people who had been working for Ryan will be questioned.

"It is suspected that members of the gangwere using the organisation's name to get money out of drug dealers and not handing it over.

"People will be asked exactly what was collected over the last two years and it will be compared to what was handed over.

"The situation that has been allowed to develop in Dublin is a disgrace and it is all about to change.

"It will be cleaned up, the people in the North are embarrassed with what has been going on."
He added: "I imagine 80 per cent of Ryan's people will end up being kicked out."

In July, the Real IRA merged with two other dissident groups to form a new group, calling themselves the IRA.

The Real IRA were joined by Republican Action Against Drugs (RAAD) in Derry and a coalition of independent armed republican groups - often known as Oglaigh na hEireann.

Oglaigh na hEireann - previously headed by Paddy Fox - consisted of a group of hardened ex-Provos based in rural Northern Ireland who opposed the peace process.

The dissident source claimed that Declan 'Fat Deccy' Smith has been isolated by the northern leadership.

Smith, who is originally from Belfast, was put forward by as leader of the Dublin brigade by the southern leadership following Ryans murder.
The chubby dissident is wanted for questioning in the North over the murders of two former Continuity IRA members in 2007.
Edward Burns (36), and Joe jones (38),were killed within an hour of each other in horrific murders.

Both Burns and jones were savagely beaten before Burns was shot dead and his body dumped in the Bog Meadows area of west Belfast.

Decapiiitated -

A short time later; Joe Jones was decapitated with a shovel and his body abandoned in an alleyway in Ardoyne.
However, the dissident source claimed Smith has been effectively removed from his position by his bosses in the North.

"Deccy Smith is not involved in the reorganisation - he will be questioned like everyone else."

The internal reorganisaion was ordered after RIRA suspect Nathan Kinsella was caught with drugs in his apartment.

His flat was 'raided' by an internal dissident discipline squad after a Dublin drug dealer told them Kinsella had been buying drugs off him.
The stash - which included cocaine and 'downers' - was found in Kinsella's north inner-city apartment. The find has led to a major split within the dissident group in Dublin, with a number of people effectively being kicked out of the organisation.

Kinsella was subsequently shot twice in the legs before being dumped in Ballyfermot on November 25. He was quizzed by gardai, but has claimed he did not know the shooter.
In September Kinsella was charged with IRA membership in the Special Criminal Court as part of the massive investigation into paramilitary criminal activity at the funeral of Alan Ryan, in which shots were fired over Ryan's coffin.

The IRA is believed to have called a number of major Dublin gangsters to a series of 'business
meetings' in recent weeks.

Abused -

Gangland figure Troy Jordan was just one of a dozen gangsters summoned to meetings with the new RIRA leaders, who have come to Dublin in the aftermath of the murder of terror chief Alan Ryan.

Jordan was ordered to hand over a significant amount of cash to the RIRA leadership. The protection money would, they said, enable him to continue on with
his drug-dealing racket.

But Jordan not only refused to hand over any cash, he verbally abused the dissident godfathers.