http://www.herald.ie/news/psni-arrest-al...e-29052454.html

06 February 2013 10:35 AM

Mr Big (31) and the 47-year-old gangster who is blamed for introducing Tiger kidnapping to Ireland are the chief suspects for planning the murder of Alan Ryan last September.


Police raided the Enniskillen property where they seized forged documents, including driving licences and passports. They also confiscated over €60,000 in cash which is believed to have been buried.

Both men are expected to face multiple serious crime charges. The arrests happened as part of an intelligence-sharing operation between the Garda Organised Crime Unit and the PSNI's Organised Crime branch.

It is understood the older gangster had grown a beard and had taken to wearing disguises. The two thugs are the number one targets for the Organised Crime Unit and are strongly suspected of ordering Ryan's murder after their gang got into a feud with the terror chief after a nightclub assault in December 2011.

This led to several tit-for-tat incidents which included a foiled murder attempt, a number of savage assaults, death threats swinging back and forward and Ryan's mob stealing a huge cash sum from the drugs and Tiger kidnap gang.

Sources say that by last autumn the crime gang decided "enough was enough" and hatched the plan to have Ryan shot dead in broad daylight in Clonshaugh, north Dublin.


Veteran

The Herald understands that 'Mr Big' was in Spain when the murder happened in early September while his veteran criminal sidekick was in Co Cavan.

'Mr Big' had been based in Spain since April 2012 because of his feud with Ryan but he returned to Dublin in December as his gang regrouped and decided to take on Ryan's RIRA mob head on.

Within days of his return, 'Mr Big' was arrested in a car in Dublin with his right- hand man. They were later released.

In the meantime, the veteran Tiger kidnap gangster was forced to relocate to the North because gardai sought him after a number of bench warrants were issued for his arrest.

In the last two months, the two gang bosses have continued to direct operations and have stepped up a campaign of terror against what has been left of Ryan's RIRA mob .

hnews@herald.ie

thanks for the update getting interesting now

Yeah could get more interesting with the xmas new year over, gangs do not shoot each other much this time of the year.

http://www.herald.ie/news/criminal-quizzed-over-ryan-murder-was-just-out-of-jail-29054510.html

KEN FOY, CRIME CORRESPONDENT – 07 FEBRUARY 2013 10:35 AM

A DUBLIN man who was arrested by detectives investigating the murder of Real IRA terror boss Alan Ryan had been released from prison just weeks before Ryan was shot dead.


THE 24-year-old Donaghmede man was picked up by gardai in the Artane area of the capital yesterday but sources say that it is not believed he was directly involved in Ryan's murder.

Instead it is thought that he may have key information in relation to the killing.

The suspect is considered a low level criminal who has a number of previous convictions including serving a short sentence for street-level crack cocaine dealing.

Sources say that he was a previous target for the gardai's Operation Boa – a special undercover operation led by detectives based in Clontarf and Raheny against street dealing on the capital's northside, particularly in the Kilbarrack area.

A source said: "It is fair to say that this fella is not a criminal mastermind or anything like that – however it is suspected that he may have information about Ryan's murder.

"He would know some of the main players so that is why he is a person of interest."

It is suspected that Ryan was murdered on the orders of two gang bosses who are now in jail for unrelated offences.

Milking

It is understood that a number of north Dublin gangs "clubbed together" to have Ryan murdered because of the money his mob was milking from them in extortion rackets.

Before being locked up, the two gang leaders continued to direct operations and have stepped up a campaign of terror against the RIRA mob.

Sources say that the duo have also been in a "cash drive" with the older criminal in particular demanding that other gangs who "clubbed in" for Ryan's murder "cough up money" that was owed to the actual hitmen who murdered Ryan.

Ryan (32) – who was shot dead in broad daylight as he walked in Clongriffin in September – had built up a fearsome underworld reputation for extorting money from some of Ireland's most dangerous drugs gangs.

Ryan was shot dead close to his Donaghmede home when two gunmen opened fire on him and one of his associates.

A car carrying what gardai believe were two gunmen pulled up and at least one of the passengers got out and started firing at Ryan and his pal Aaron Nealis who was hit in the leg.

Ryan was hit a number of times, including in the head.

kfoy@herald.ie

http://www.herald.ie/news/courts/two-charged-with-money-laundering-29054517.html

Two charged with money laundering.

EIMEAR COTTER – 07 FEBRUARY 2013 10:35 AM

TWO Dublin men have appeared in a court in Northern Ireland charged with money laundering offences.

PASCHAL Kelly (47) and Jonathan Gill (31) were allegedly caught in possession of criminal property.

The arrests were made following a special operation between officers from the PSNI and detectives from An Garda Siochana's specialist Organised Crime Unit (OCU).

The accused men did not apply for bail.

Judge Bernie Kelly remanded them in custody to appear before the court again next week.

Possession

Kelly, who is originally from Coolock but has an address in Ballyjamesduff, Co Cavan, appeared before Dungannon Magistrates' Court charged with possession of criminal property, contrary to Section 329 of the Proceeds of Crime Act, 2002.

The alleged incident took place at a property in Co Tyrone on February 4.

Kelly is further charged with two counts of obstructing Constable Gary O'Donnell during the same incident and with custody of a false passport.

Gill, of Malahide Road, Dublin 17, is facing a single charge of possession of criminal property.

On that charge, the pair face a possible fine and prison sentence not exceeding six months in the magistrates' court or a maximum sentence of 14 years upon indictment in the Crown Court. The defence solicitor said the pair had provided addresses in Northern Ireland but these were not suitable to the PSNI.

hnews@herald.ie

really enjoy all these articles and updates you guys post in regards to the irish OC scene, keep it up!

Thank you, updates will come when as with us all when we have the time to do so.

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Photo of Criminal Action Force members with what looks like AK47 and sub gun of some kind.

C.A.F Spokesman statement.

whats that supposed to be ^^^^^

Sorry just net went down for some time.

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Streamville Road, Dublin. This wall painting is in the area where Criminal Action Force killed Real IRA leader Alan Ryan.

http://www.sundayworld.com/columnists/sw-irish-crime.php



Target No. 1
Death-list man put under jail protection as RIRA step up hunt for Ryan's killer

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 Real IRA plan to whack him.

Jonathan Gill is on a Real IRA death list 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 a 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 involvement 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 for undeclared income.
Infiltrate

He is also being investigated by gardai with a view to bringing charges before the special criminal court under antigangland legislation, which would see him go on trial without a jury.

Despite being suspected of being a serious player in the Coolock gang's schemes, Gill has had 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 it is extremely tight-knit and disciplined and is almost impossible to infiltrate. Sources say that Jonathan Gill, or 'Giller' as he is known, is a "very clever operator". He is from the Malahide
Road in Dublin and comes from a very respectable family.

He no longer lives at the family home and spends his time moving between various addresses 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 said to be 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 the 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 Ryan's murder last September.

The Real IRA 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 station slayings in March 2010 of two innocent cousins who were shot in a case of mistaken identity.

The gang is suspected of controlling the drugs trade in north Dublin and of 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 has become the main drug-dealing outfit in Darndale, Coolock and Raheny, on Dublin's northside.

His main rival in the drugs trade was Micka 'the Panda' Kelly, who was shot dead two years ago by Alan Ryan, clearing the way for the mob to take over.

Gardai have linked the gang to several unsolved murders. They suspect the gang was responsible for the kidnap and suspected murder of Patrick Lawlor, who disappeared in Donaghmede in December 2004. It is thought he was shot dead over a drugs debt, but his body has never 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 Coolock, nicknamed the 'Taliban', act as assassins for 'Mr Big's' gang. They were responsible for the double murder of innocent cousins Mark Noonan and Glen Murphy in Finglas in March 2010.

Two associates of the gang led by 'the Panda' were the actual targets, but Noonan and Murphy were tragically murdered instead.

The 'Taliban' brothers have also 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.
Hatred

DOUBLE HIT: Anthony Burnett and Joseph Redmond were shot dead


'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 one attack on a man from Coolock who was left with serious stab injuries 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 Ryan and his Real IRA cohorts, with both mobs prepared to turn a blind eye to each other's activities.

However, around Christmas 2011 there was an incident in a well-known night spot in Swords, Co. Dublin, when one of Ryan's lieutenants received a serious beating at the hands of three of Mr Big's associates, who were "out of their heads" on cocaine.

This led to serious bad blood between the two gangs. The Real IRA issued death threats against 'Mr Big' and his senior associates and the gang boss left Ireland for Spain last March.

The following month members of 'Mr Big's' gang collected a cache of guns they had hidden in Balgriffin cemetery and drove to Alan
Ryan's house in Donaghmede 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 all-out war broke out between the rival mobs.

'Mr Big's' mob decided it was a case of 'kill or be killed' and put an operation in place to get rid of Ryan, believing that the key lieutenants who would replace him were weak.

Between leaving Ireland in March and the time of Ryan's 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 drug dealers including Paul 'Burger' Walsh from Donaghmede, who was a long-time associate of 'the Panda'.
Contacts

His gang has extensive contacts among dealers in Spain and sources its drugs 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 4 'Mr Big' and one of his closest associates were arrested on St James's Street in Dublin's south inner city and gardai believed they had foiled an attempted assassination on up-andcoming drug dealer Greg Lynch.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnew...der-584617.html

Man arrested in connection with Alan Ryan murder

Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - 11:52 AM
A man has been arrested in connection with the death of Real IRA boss Alan Ryan last September.

The man who has been arrested is in his 20s. He was arrested in the Dublin area this morning and is being detained under Section 50 of the Criminal Justice Act, 2007, at Coolock garda station.

Ryan was gunned downclose his home in north Dublin on Monday afternoon, as he walked with an associate on Grange Lodge Avenue, Clongriffin, in the north of the city.

He is survived by his partner Stacey, daughter Alannah, mother Marion and siblings Anthony, Niamh, Dermot, Eoin and Vincent.

Ryan, 32, was one of the leaders of the RIRA Dublin branch and, with other members, had been trying to extort money from drugs gangs.

A convicted criminal, Ryan was notorious for racketeering – extorting cash from drug dealers and businessmen across the city and demanding protection money from firms.

He was jailed for taking part in a RIRA weapons training camp in Meath in 2001 and served time for possession of a firearm in a separate incident.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2013/0214/1224330013806.html

The Irish Times - Thursday, February 14, 2013Man held on release from prison for questioning on Ryan murder

A criminal has been arrested moments after being released from prison and is being questioned about the murder of Real IRA figure Alan Ryan.

The arrested man is in his 20s and is from Coolock, north Dublin. He is closely aligned to a leading drug-dealer from a middle-class north Dublin suburb who is believed to have worked with another Dublin gang leader to organise and pay for Ryan’s murder.

Ryan, who had served time in prison for firearms offences linked to his membership of the Real IRA, was shot on September 3rd at Grange Lodge Avenue, Clongriffin, north Dublin.

He had led Real IRA extortion demands on drugs gangs in Dublin and gardaí believe some of those gangs conspired to kill him as a result.

Four people have previously been arrested for questioning about the murder of Ryan (31). The man held yesterday is suspected of a more central involvement in the murder.

He was arrested outside Mountjoy Prison on release from a sentence for road traffic offences. He was held under section 50 of the Criminal Justice Act for questioning at Coolock Garda station.

http://www.herald.ie/news/pepperspray-thug-held-over-ryan-murder-29069608.html


Alan Ryan
Ken Foy Crime correspondent – 14 February 2013 10:40 AM

A CRIMINAL arrested by gardai investigating the murder of Real IRA boss Alan Ryan was previously pepper-sprayed by officers in a bizarre driving incident.


During the incident in the Coolock area in October, 2011, the 26-year-old man was travelling in a car with crime boss 'Mr Big' who is suspected of organising Ryan's murder in Clongriffin, north Dublin.

The pair were pulled over by officers before the man in garda custody today started to act in a threatening and aggressive way and had to be pepper sprayed.

It is understood that the small-time thug from Darndale begged 'Mr Big' to help him, but the gang boss did not intervene and simply watched as his associate was brought to a north Dublin garda station.

"It shows just how much the gang leader cared – he just sat back as his mate screamed in agony," said a source.

Gardai arrested Mr Big's pal yesterday in north Dublin just weeks after he was released from prison where he had served a short sentence for road traffic offences.

He is in custody in Coolock Garda Station and is the fifth man to be arrested as part of the massive investigation into terror boss Ryan's murder.

Sources say that the 26-year-old had no involvement in the savage gangland slaying, but may have information about it because of his friendship with 'Mr Big'.

While he continues to be questioned today, it has emerged that a 24-year-old Donaghmede man who was picked up by detectives on Wednesday of last week was released over the weekend.

This suspect – who was released without charge – is considered a low level criminal who has a number of previous convictions including serving a small sentence for street-level crack cocaine dealing.

Sources say that he was a previous target for the gardai's Operation Boa – a special undercover operation led by detectives based in Clontarf and Raheny against street dealing on the capital's northside, particularly in the Kilbarrack area.



Dangerous

It is understood that a number of north Dublin gangs "clubbed together" to have Ryan murdered because of the money his mob was milking from them in extortion rackets.

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Two men accused of being the leaders of an organised criminal gang and who allegedly carry guns for their own protection, appeared at Fermanagh Court yesterday (Wednesday).

Pascal Kelly (47) and Jonathan Gill (31) were arrested in a car on the Queen Elizabeth Road in Enniskillen last Monday.

Officers subsequently recovered a key to an apartment at Portora Wharf beside Enniskillen Police Station and seized over 65,000 euro. They also recovered 24 mobile phones and two cars.

Kelly, from Ishlawn, Ballyjamesduff, County Cavan, and Gill, from Malahide Road, Dublin, are both charged with possessing criminal property.

Kelly is further charged with possessing a forged passport and obstructing a police officer.

The men were in court to apply for bail.

Their defence barrister, Mr. Ian Turkington, began by warning the prosecution against speculation and said it should stick to the facts.

Outlining the background to the case, a member of the PSNI's Organised Crime Branch told the court that according to gardai the men regularly carried firearms for their own protection.

Mr. Turkington immediately got to his feet to object.

The officer said that as a result of information received, police stopped a Renault Clio on the Queen Elizabeth Road on Monday, February 4, and arrested Kelly and Gill. During a search officers found the key to an apartment at Portora Wharf. They went and searched the apartment and discovered 65,826 euro and £2,669. They also found a passport bearing Kelly's photograph but in the name of Brendan Duffy, the name given by Kelly when he was arrested. Officers also seized 24 mobile phones and found the keys to a Mazda and Ford Focus as well as a receipt for a hotel in Enniskillen in the name of John Jones. None of the cars linked to the men were registered to them.

The officer told the court the apartment had been rented by an Anthony Heaney, who, in a witness statement, said he had sub-let it to a Pascal Kelly.

During police interviews the men were asked about the cash and made no comment. They were arrested for possession of criminal property.

Explaining his objections to bail, the officer said Kelly was a flight risk. He had a false passport and appeared to have ready excess of large quantities of cash and might be able to contact others to get another false passport. There were three warrants for his arrest in the Republic of Ireland and he had supplied 11 possible bail addresses, of which two were acceptable to the police.

The officer told the court he had spoken to gardai in the Republic and been told Gill had convictions for motoring offences from 2004 until 2011.

He submitted there was also a flight risk in respect of Gill as, with access of large quantities of cash, it would easy for them to evade police.

"We believe these people are leaders of a criminal gang," said the officer, as their defence barrister again got to his feet to object.

The officer continued, referring to them being members of "an organised crime group in Dublin".

Mr. Turkington asked the officer if the false passport was in a fit condition to travel with, suggesting "it was in bits".

The constable accepted that it looked like it had "been through a washing machine" and that he very much doubted whether anyone could travel on it.

The barrister suggested that at this stage there was nothing to connect Gill with the apartment.

The officer replied: "That would be a matter for forensics."

Mr. Turkington suggested the police purported to link Kelly to the apartment by a sub-lease.

He submitted that it was up to the court to prove the property was the produce of a criminal enterprise and not up to the court to infer that just because it was a large sum of money "it must be the product of ill-gotten gains".

The barrister argued that "there's not a shred of evidence" to link Gill to the apartment in question, never mind the money found there, and there was no evidence he would leave the jurisdiction.

Turning to Kelly, he said: "It's fair to say he is no stranger to the courts down south."

He said Kelly had a number of convictions for dishonesty and had three bench warrants against him, two for mobile phone offences and one in relation to a tax matter.

He told the court the families and friends of the two men had raised significant cash sureties and could lodge £10,000 in respect of each of them at Newry Court.

Mr. Turkington said these were serious offences but not the most serious and that "both deny the offences" and are "afforded the presumption of innocence".

District Judge Gerard Trainor dismissed Kelly's application for bail as "entirely hopeless" as his record showed him to be a "seasoned practiced criminal" with convictions for robbery and evading lawful custody.

He told Kelly he was satisfied there was a risk of flight and he would not turn up for his trial in any circumstances. Most importantly, when interviewed in the presence of his lawyer, he was given the opportunity to give an explanation about the money and remained silent.

The District Judge told Gill the reasons for refusing him bail were "equally forthright".

"You're both singing from the same hymn sheet," he told Gill.

Refusing the bail application he said he was satisfied that if he released Gill there was no guarantee he would turn up for his trial.

Kelly and Gill were remanded in custody to appear again at Fermanagh Court by video link from Maghaberry Prison on March 11.

http://www.herald.ie/news/enemy-of-the-state-29073808.html



IT LOOKS like gangster Brian Rattigan has reached the end of the line.

This week he was convicted, in a landmark judgement, of running a drugs ring from his Portlaoise prison cell.

As a detective superintendent I personally encountered Rattigan. As you can imagine, I found him a very unsavoury character, not least because he tried to kill some of the officers who worked under my direction.

That happened 10 years ago today, when Rattigan opened fire on my colleagues in their patrol car as they pursued him on La Touche Road in Bluebell.

He fired with a shotgun from the rear window of the car he was in. Luckily, no officer was injured and Rattigan was chased and captured.

It was the first time Rattigan had come to widespread public attention. It would not be the last.

Chilling

But of all the crimes I encountered that were perpetrated by this criminal, the most chilling involved a murder he planned that I investigated with my team a year later.

And like the drugs case this week, Rattigan planned it from a prison cell.

On the night of February 25, 2004, at Grays Public House, in Newmarket Square, just off Cork Street in Dublin's south inner city, a terrible execution was about take place.

It resulted in the death of 24-year-old Paul Warren. While he was socialising, two masked and armed men came into the pub, one stood at the front door covering the customers present while the other walked towards Paul Warren. Warren made a run towards the toilet but while trying to escape he was shot in the back.

Warren ran into a cubicle and jammed the door in a further effort to evade his assassin but the gunman pushed his arm through the door and shot Warren in the face, fatally.

Paul Warren died where he lay. The two gunmen bolted from the pub.

Warren was a criminal who lived in a league a lot lower than gangland, but he had mixed with the wrong people.

Background

It is important to give the reader a little of the background to this. In 2001, a criminal named Declan Gavin was murdered on the Crumlin Road, Brian Rattigan was charged with this murder. In July 2002, Joseph Rattigan was murdered on Cooley Road in Drimnagh, a brother of Brian Rattigan.

It was believed this second murder was in retaliation for the first one.

The killings launched a feud which still goes on. It has resulted in many more deaths.

On the night of Joseph Rattigan's killing, Paul Warren was the last person with him and it is widely thought that Warren was murdered for setting up Joseph Rattigan.

After the pub shooting, we received confidential information to suggest that a man using the nickname Tipper shot Warren. Tipper was later identified as one Gary Bryan.

We then arrested another man, Jonathan Mooney. During his detention, he admitted to getting mobile phone calls from a man in Mountjoy Prison asking him how Warren was dressed and his location on the night.

He was also directed by the Mountjoy prisoner to let him know if Warren left the pub.

He received five calls from the same man and gave him all the sought information.

He later said that he knew Warren and the man on the mobile phone were mortal enemies, but he still gave the information.

Slaps

When asked what he thought would happen, he said just a few slaps.

A short time later Mooney got another call on his girlfriend's phone and the question posed this time "Did Warrener get killed?"

The man in prison told Mooney to get rid of the phone. Mooney was later arrested and convicted of his part in the shooting.

Who was the mysterious man on the prison phone?

None other than Brian Rattigan, 'King Ratt' himself. Within a few weeks, I issued warrants under Section 29 of the Offences Against the State Act to search specific cells in Mountjoy Prison used by him.

This was the first time that prison cells were searched under such legislation. During the search, parts of phones, amongst other items, were found. Unfortunately, they did not prove anything of evidential value. Gary Bryan was later charged with the murder of Paul Warren. At the Central Criminal Court he was found not guilty after a witness, Bryan's ex-girlfriend Valerie White, withdrew her statement. Bryan was later shot dead in Drimnagh, another victim of the feud engaged in by 'King Ratt'.

Dangerous

This is just one short story about the killer and drug dealer known as Brian Rattigan – but it provides an insight into how this gangster operates and why he's one of the most dangerous men in the country.

He is serving life for another feud-related murder and that, along with this week's drug conviction, will hopefully ensure he never sees the light of day in the outside world again.

PJ Browne is a former detective superintendent who investigated the activities of Brian Rattigan and his gang

Thanks Don, I have seen Criminal Action Force statements were they have killed Rattigan gang members.

just put that up cause thought you were on holiday is all

I was just about to put this story in your thread when i seen it here. I have some old papers with Criminal Action Force storys in them i think you will like them. i will do it next week.

http://www.herald.ie/news/shadowy-trio-put-in-charge-of-ira-in-city-by-north-chiefs-29073806.html

Shadowy trio put in charge of IRA in city by North chiefs.

KEN FOY, CRIME CORRESPONDENT – 15 FEBRUARY 2013 10:40 AM

THREE Dublin men including a veteran Republican have been appointed by the IRA's Northern leadership to direct operations in the captial.

The three shadowy figures have been chosen because of their ability to keep off the garda radar as well as their "staunch Republicanism", said a source.

The middle-aged men have addresses in the Finglas, Tallaght and Coolock areas of the city.

The Finglas man escaped serious armed robbery charges in the North in the 1990s in connection with a £300,000 raid on a supermarket.

A source said: "This so-called organisation is no longer using the Real IRA tag – they just call themselves the IRA now."

It is understood the trio have come to the attention of detectives who have been investigating the punishment shootings of slain RIRA boss Alan Ryan's former pals Declan 'Fat Deccy' Smith (30), who was shot in the leg last month in Saggart, and Nathan Kinsella (33), who was kneecapped in Ballyfermot in November.

It is not thought that they carried out the shootings but instead oversaw operations.

The Herald previously was briefed on internal plans to remove a number of those who were close to Ryan after the dissidents drew up a chilling hit-list of 13 Dublin-based gangsters.

A high-level dissident source told the Herald that more than 10 more IRA figures in the Dublin area will be removed as they are deemed too much of a "risk" to the organisation.

"We were shocked when we came down and saw the type of s*** that Ryan had running the show. They are nothing short of rabble and they have no place in the organisation," the source explained.

Mob

It is understood the 'appointment' of the three middle-aged Dubliners is all part of the Northern leadership's plans to clean up the mob.

The attack on 'Fat Deccy' last month followed the shooting of alleged Real IRA man Nathan Kinsella in November last year.

Kinsella was kneecapped despite the fact that he was a close friend of murdered Real IRA boss Alan Ryan, who was assassinated in September last year. It is understood Ryan was on his way to see Declan Smith when he was gunned down in Clongriffin, north Dublin.

Smith was present in the horrible aftermath of the targeted assassination and stood watching as paramedics desperately tried in vain to save Ryan's life.

Following Ryan's death, Smith attempted to muscle into the mob's operations but ended up being kicked out of the organisation with weeks.

And was shot over a bitter "missing money dispute" and also to teach him a lesson.

Some of Smith's associates are wanted for questioning by the PSNI about the murders in 2007 of Edward Burns (36) and Joe Jones (38).

hnews@herald.ie

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-19840967

Criminal Action Force bomb attack, last year.

Rathangan Bomb: Irish army make safe a device found in County Kildare.

A bomb has been made safe after being found in County Kildare on Thursday night.

Irish army bomb disposal experts were called by police (gardai) after the device was found outside a house in Rathangan.

The area had been cordoned off by the gardai and local residents were moved.

A controlled explosion was carried out on the bomb. It has been described as a viable improvised explosive device.

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/businessman-with-political-links-paid-rira-200k-29074918.html

Businessman with political links paid RIRA €200k.

Paul Williams Special Correspondent – 16 February 2013

A HIGH-PROFILE businessman and property developer, with close links to top politicians and celebrities, has been secretly paying huge sums of money to the Real IRA for protection.

According to dissident Republican informants and sources in the security services, the millionaire gave at least €200,000 to the terror group in the past year and has promised to hand over in excess of €1m this year.

Details of the arrangement emerged when anti-terrorist Special Branch officers and the crime and security section in Garda HQ stepped up their investigations into dissident Republican activities since the murder of Alan Ryan last year.

Suspicions were fuelled when the businessman lodged money to the bank account of a man linked to a member of the RIRA last year.

The connection between the businessman and the terrorists was confirmed last November when the Real IRA kneecapped one of their own members who they accused of "misappropriating" some of the protection money. Dubliner Nathan Kinsella (34), an associate of Alan Ryan, was abducted and shot in Ballyfermot on November 25 last.

Kinsella, from Matt Talbot Court in central Dublin, was one of three men charged with IRA membership in September following the paramilitary display at Ryan's funeral. The murdered man's younger brother Vincent (22) and another associate, Daragh Evans (23), were also charged.

In January the man who was second in command of the Alan Ryan gang was also abducted and shot as part of an ongoing "internal purge".

Declan Smith (30), also known as 'Fat Deccy', was found with a gunshot wound to the leg at Fairgreen in Saggart, west Dublin, on January 19.

Smith, originally from Belfast, had reportedly replaced Ryan as leader of the gang.

He is currently wanted by the PSNI for questioning about the murder of two men in Belfast in 2007.

Security sources believe that Smith was targeted by his own comrades in connection with the money being paid by the businessman.

Discipline

He had been ordered to meet with members of the discipline squad for questioning. A convicted drug dealer, who had been taken to the meeting, was arrested by gardai a short time after the punishment shooting.

The businessman, who is now the centre of a major investigation, has kept his links to organised crime a closely guarded secret for decades while at the same time rubbing shoulders with the country's rich and famous.

He is currently being pursued by the banks for property debts but is suspected of hiding a fortune, which he amassed through crime.

The Irish Independent has learned that he "hired" Alan Ryan and the RIRA to protect him and his family after he had been threatened by underworld associates and the INLA.

The former tycoon has been under the protection of the Republican criminals since then.

His mansion is also equipped with a hi-tech CCTV security system. RIRA members have also been staying at the home of another close relative of their benefactor.

Gardai believe that the businessman has been a central player in organised crime both here and in the UK for many years.

He controls a tightly-knit group of trusted associates who are involved in the smuggling of huge quantities of illegal drugs and money laundering.

The businessman also acts as a de facto banker for a number of well-known criminal families in the Traveller community.

However, at the same time he worked hard to nurture a respectable front and invested heavily over the past 30 years in legitimate businesses and property development.

His circle of friends and contacts included politicians, celebrities and even some senior gardai.

But the businessman's legitimate endeavours fell apart in the economic collapse and he is now being chased by the banks.

In the past year he has also fallen out with a number of major criminal gangs in Dublin who have begun pressurising him for money.

The businessman and his family were threatened that they would be seriously harmed if they didn't pay up. That was when he called in the Real IRA.

In a newspaper interview last month a spokesman for the terror gang, which now calls itself the 'IRA' after merging with two other dissident groups, claimed that the shooting of Nathan Kinsella was carried out after their "discipline squad" found illegal drugs during a search of his apartment.

Republican informants have claimed that the new IRA group is "very concerned" that their funding from the businessman is kept under wraps and not cut off.

Northern dissidents have teamed up with a number of former senior Provos from Dublin, Cork and Dundalk in a major effort to re-organise and establish a powerbase in the capital.

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UK HITMAN LINKED TO ALAN RYAN GUN DEATH
Garda are told the assassin was hired by north Dublin drugs gang



ASSASSINATED: RIRA boss Alan Ryan was shot dead

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 convic-tions 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.



DENIED BAIL: Jonathan Gill

The men were refused bail and remanded in custody 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 happened shortly after four masked men called to the family home of a 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.

Affair



THREAT: Paschal Kelly

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 Ryan'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 northside 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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Sean South, I said 250 members Criminal Action Force could have looks like there could be more as 200 criminals in this few square miles of Dublin and we know that CAF has done hits, bomb attacks all over the place.

Hundreds of criminals live in Dublin some hits CAF were said to part of.

Gerard Eglington, Declan O'Reilly, said in this report they have 100 members that is without the gang who killed Alan Ryan or other gangs.the Real IRA CAN NOT WIN THIS WAR FACT.

sunday world update their site at 12.00am every sunday?

just finished typing all that stuff took 3 hours, ill put up the story you want from last week tomarrow.

I have taken it down work away Don.

leave it repost it,im just saying not point in typing stuff by hand if the sunday-worlds putting them storys online,you can take over the other thread i started too,i dont mind