THIS IS ONE of ireland's most dangerous sex beasts back on the streets after serv-ing his time in jail for a brutal kidnap and sex attack.

Robert Quigley's 22-year-old victim was beat-en so badly she thought she was going to,,,clje after being abducted and driven to the Dublin Mountains. Now he's is back Hying in his family home in Tallaght, Dublin, where the Sunday World snapped him on the street. He took a trip to a garden centre where he helped a female companion load shopping into a saloon car. Dressed in a fleece and tracksuit bottoms, the unshaven ex-bouncer cut a shabby figure. Much heav-ier compared to when he was arrested in 2006, Quigley mingled with shoppers who were oblivious to his disgust-ing background.

Fantasist

The warped fantasist sparked off a huge Garda manhunt following the sinister attack in November 2006 He was given an eight-year sentence after pleading guilty and Judge Moran commented: "It would be quite wrong and irresponsible to release this man into the community without some kind of strict supervision." Quigley was also jailed for another assault on his then girlfriend after driving her to remote woodlands in Co. Kerry. He walked free from jail earlier this year after serving most of his time on a protection wing in the Midlands Prison. His disturbing and unexplained sex attack forced cops to launch a cold-case style probe amid fears he may have carried out other attacks. A 22-year-old woman attacked by Quigley in Dublin suffered a -brutal and prolonged ordeal after her night out ended in terror. She mistakenly got in Quigley's car after leaving a nightclub on Harcourt Street thinking it was a hackney cab. After giving him directions, she feel asleep and when she awoke Quigley told her he was a detective and that he had found cocaine in her handbag. He used plastic cable ties to bind her hands, at which point the young woman realised he wasn't a cop. He drove the woman up the Dublin Mountains, where he punched her sev-eral times and used a black baton to hit her in the face. He also tried to choke her, at which point the woman said she thought she was going to die. The young woman suffered serious facial injuries, including fractures to her cheekbones. When he attempted to rape her, two passing cars distracted him long enough for the woman to make her escape and raise the alarm. - Her victim impact statement was lat-er read out in court. Changed "Before the attack I used to be a hap-py-go-lucky girl.

After that night, when I walked down the street everybody looked at me. Some laughed and joked and remarked how I had two fine shin-. ers and that I deserved them. "My teeth were pushed back and my lip was cut. I could not eat or speak for two weeks. Six months on so much of my social life has changed. I can't trust people anymore. I never want to be left alone. "Sleep is supposed to be enjoyable, but all I have is nightmares. I'd rather if he had killed me that night. I'd rather he kill me than rape me. I was hoping he'd pull a gun out and end the pain. I don't think the memory of it will ever go away." In the bizarre attack on his girlfriend Quigley forced her to hand over cash, threatening that she and her family would be attacked by gangsters.

The young woman was forced to seek loans and give the money to him to stave off the threats from the fictitious gang. A psychiatric report concluded that Quigley suffered no major mental ill-ness, but had a history of "fantasising and fabricating stories" and there were hints of self-harm. Quigley is not the only serious dangerous sex offender to he released form jail since the Sunday World's spe-cial investigation into how many are behind bars. One of those was John English, who was sent back to jail for drinking alco-hol, in breach of his release conditions. The 35-year-old has previous convic-tions for rape, false imprisonment and sexual assault dating back to 1993, when he was in his mid-teens. Menace In 2004 he was jailed for 13 years for raping an Australian tourist after meeting her in a bar in Cork. He was described at the time as "a danger and a menace to society" and "a serious threat to the women of Cork". Shortly after his release in September last year he was spotted drinking and the case was put back into court to have a five-year term activated.

THIS IS the massive haul of amphetamines that finally brought one of Ireland's most notorious and exlusive crime lords to justice in England.

Gangster Brendan Kinlan (42), was sentenced to eight -rears in prison in Leeds Crown Court on Monday titer he was caught with a ,2 million drugs haul near Wakefield, West Yeashire. Bizarrely, the massive stash of designer drugs was only dis-covered after Kinlan had crashed his van as he swerved to avoid 'hitting a pheasant which had ran out on the road. When police came to the crash scene they realised Kinlan wasn't the registered owner of the van and impounded the vehicle.

SUSPICiOUS

After the van was towed to a garage in West Yorkshire, Kinlan continually"Called to the business asking staff to return his property in the back of the van. During the trial, the court heard that Kinlan's persistence led to garage staff becoming suspicious and discovering the stash. The eight-year sentence will be ! the first time Kinlan has been giv-en a lengthy prison term despite being heavily involved in organ-ised crime for two decades. When Kinlan was born in 1970 in Bray, Co. Wicklow, drug crime was a relative rarity in the county. By the time he turned 30 he headed up a major crime organi-sation, distributing millions of euro worth of cocaine, heroin and cannabis along the East Coast. During the early 1990s, Kinlan

BUSTED:

Massive amphetamines haul found in Brendan Kinlan's van had forged close links to a num- ber of Dublin gangs. A source said Kinlan regularly got 'high' on his own supply and blew thousands of euros in the local bookies every month. During his time as Wicklow's top mobster, Kinlan also earned a reputation for using extreme violence and intimidation. Gardai believe he was responsi-ble for intimidating two State wit-nesses who failed to turn up in court during the murder trial of his pal Richie O'Carroll. They believe Kinlan personally lodged money in their accounts in exchange for them agreeing to stay away from Bray. In 2005 O'Carroll's guilty to manslaughter plea was entered and accepted by the State 10 days after a jury failed to reach a ver-dict in his murder trial. Kinlan's gang are also the prime suspe,cts:for the murder of local criminal Joseph Vickers (43), in 1999.

The murdered man was found beaten to death outside his burning caravan on a beach at Greystones, Co. Wicklow. It' believed Vickers was the victim of a revenge attack after his pal Vincent O'Brien had seriously injured Kinlan in a stabbing. Five years later,Vincent O'Brien was murdered after he was shot at his home at Kilbride Grove in Bray, on August 10, 2005. Gardai believe the chief sus-pects for the murder are two asso-ciates of Kinlan's. Kinlan had spent the last few years moving between the UK, Holland and Spain, sourcing drugs from Peter Tatso' Mitchell.

THIS IS the man behind a European crime wave in which millions of euro worth of rhino horn exhibits have been stolen.

The traveller-trader from Rathkeale is one of a core group known to have made a fortune flogging rhino horns to China. The exhibits stolen from a stor-age facility in Swords, Co. Dublin, this week were still on display and within arms reach when the Sunday World first revealed the scam two years ago. The audacious robbery of the muse-um warehouse this week is the latest in dozens of raids across Europe since 2010. A key player, `Smokey Burns' previ-ously featured in the Sunday World thanks to his lucrative international tobacco smuggling operation. Others have close links to the tar-mac crews who travel all over Europe doing botch jobs for over-inflated prices. Just after the Sunday World expose, the rhino exhibits were moved to a warehouse in north County Dublin for safe-keeping.

Rhino horns can command as much as €60,000 per kilo on the black mar-ket, supplying Chinese traditional veal the traveller medicine makers. On Wednesday four rhino heads were stolen from the warehouse in what appears to have been a careful-ly organised raid. Gardai were alerted shortly after midnight by a security man at the premises. At about 10.40pm three masked men entered the building and tied up the security man on duty. The three men loaded the rhino heads and horns from the building into a large white van. The raiders were in the building for approximate-ly one hour. The security man, who was uninjured, later freed himself svp=ges:foeci The thieves knew exactly what they were looking for in a warehouse the size of two football pitches. Museum staff confirmed that nothing else was taken during the raid. The keeper of the Natural History Museum, Nigel Monaghan, said this week the robbery was well planned.

"It looks like a targeted robbery with a specific agenda. It's not unusu-al. Unfortunately, there's been quite a few of these across Europe," he said. "Rhinoceros are poached in the wild so people can cut off the horn of the animal they've just killed and this is basically an easier target. They go and find museums, stately homes, private individuals with big-game tro-phies or decorative artworks made Out of rhino horns." With more than 60 raids reported from Scandinavia to Portugal, the gang has attracted intense police attention. In a recent Europol report they were count-ed among 3,600 identified organised criminal gangs operating in Europe. The major players among the Rathkeale traveller-trader communi-ty stay at arm's length from the hoods who carry out: the raids. Contacts based in England and, to buyers in China, where it is highly-prized as an ingredient in traditional medical cures. However, the criminals contracted to carry out the robberies or who are trying to cash in have used more vio-lent methods to get their hands on rhino horns. In one raid in July 2011, would-be robbers used tear gas to subdue secu-rity_ guards at a museum in Liege, Belgium. Police arrested two British nationals and recovered a rhino horn at a roadblock.

They told cops they had been promised €3,000 for the raid and had been ordered to leave the rhino horn near a statue in Holland. In the UK last year an antiques deal-er was beaten unconscious as he chased thieves who snatched a rhino horn from him. The dealer in Nottingham had set up a meeting with potential buyers at a McDonald's restaurant when he was targeted. In a series of raids in Germany dur-ing June 2011, thieves hit a string of museums snatching a total of eight rhino horns worth up to -€2 Last year the Sunday World pub-lished a photograph that was being touted around Rathkeale in the wake of one robbery in the UK. A source claimed that the exhibit was worth €200,000 and that three members of the Rathkeale traveller community who had played a minor role got €16,000 as their share. Convicted The involvement of Rathkeale trav-eller traders emerged in January 2010 when customs officers seised a cache of eight horns at Shannon airport. This year brothers Jeremiah and Michael O'Brien were convicted of illegally importing the horns, which had since risen in value from €500,000 to €1.5 million.

Two other young Rathkeale men were arrested in 2010 in a sting oper-ation in the United States and later jailed for six months. One of those, Richard 'Kerry' O'Brien, was previously jailed in Belgium for cigarette smuggling. His father, Richard senior, is regard-ed as one of the wealthiest traders from the County Limerick town. O'Brien junior and his brother-in-law Michael Hegarty travelled to the US after a buyer responded to an email sent out to taxidermists all over the world. The email sought mounted rhino head exhibits for an African-themed hotel due to open County Kerry. Another two Rathkeale men are currently subject to extradition pro-ceedings in Ireland, One man is want-ed in connection with a rhino horn robbery in the UK and the other over a robbery in Austria.

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Paul Williams Special Correspondent – 30 April 2013

THE family of a man facing charges of withholding information about the murder of Real IRA boss Alan Ryan believe he may have been abducted.


Yesterday a court issued an arrest warrant for Robert Carroll (27), from Clonee, Co Meath, who has not been seen for over a week.

In October he was charged under Section 9 of the Offences Against the State Act for allegedly withholding information that might be of material assistance to detectives investigating Ryan's murder.

The feared crime boss was gunned down as he walked along Grange Lodge Avenue, in Clongriffin, north Dublin, on September 3 last.

The Irish Independent has learned that Mr Carroll's father reported him missing last week and has told gardai he fears something sinister has happened.

He said he believes his son would not have gone missing voluntarily and that there had been no contact from him.

Security sources have revealed that detectives investigating the disappearance are "keeping an open mind" about what happened to him.

Struggle

It is understood that officers have visited Mr Carroll's home at Ard Cluain in Clonee and found no evidence of a struggle.

"Robert Carroll is currently the subject of an arrest warrant and we are looking for him in relation to that," a source said.

"The fears of his family have to be taken seriously but so far there is no information that anything sinister has happened to him and we are keeping an open mind."

Mr Carroll was charged in connection with the murder on October 9 and was subsequently granted bail.

A second man, Thomas Hunt (39), from Canon Lillis Avenue, in Dublin's north inner city, is also facing similar charges for allegedly withholding information. Last month he was sent forward for trial to the Circuit Criminal Court.

Mr Carroll failed to turn up at the Dublin District Court last Friday where he was due to be served with a book of evidence in the case and be sent forward for trial.

No one has yet been charged with the murder of Alan Ryan.

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The hit attempt on gangster Derek McLoughlin may be linked to the murder of a man three years ago.

McLoughlin (48), who was a close associate of Eamonn ‘the Don’ Dunne, was in a car park at the Castle Shopping Centre in Swords when a gunman walked up to him and pulled the trigger twice around 11.30am on Tuesday morning.

He had been at the Image Health and Fitness Centre before getting into his car when a people carrier pulled up beside him and the gunman got out.

Luckily for McLoughlin the would-be killer’s gun jammed and he was unable to fire any shots.

McLoughlin tried to run over the hitman after he fired the shots but he managed to flee the scene.

The gunman was spotted waiting around outside shops near the gym for two days before the hit attempt. Witnesses said he looked foreign.

McLoughlin, originally from Ballymun, was a close pal of Dunne who was shot dead in Cabra in 2010.

The gangster, who was hit with a €600,000 bill by CAB in 2010, is not cooperating with gardai over the incident but detectives are examining a number of lines of inquiry.

Sources say they are sceptical that the hit attempt was carried out by the Real IRA but they are not ruling it out.

Gardai are also examining any links to a hit attempt on Sean Enright the day after the attack on McLoughlin.

Another line of inquiry is that associates of David Thomas were responsible.

Thomas was shot dead by Dunne’s gang in Finglas in 2009. Back in 1998 Thomas killed the Don’s associate Brian O’Reilly’s brother David following a row in a pub.

Thomas later shot and injured two gardai after barricading himself into a flat in Dublin’s inner city. He claimed he believed associates of O’Reilly were trying to kill him.

Several associates of Dunne have been targeted by the Real IRA since his death including veteran gangster Eamon Kelly who was shot dead near his home in Killester last December.

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The Trinity girl, the IRA arms haul and the gangland hit.

Gardai have traced a gun that was recovered from a dissident republican active service unit to a gangland slaying 11 years ago.

The Sunday World can reveal that Garda forensic experts have linked a 9mm semi-automatic pistol seized from dissident republicans last November to the murder of David

McCreevy in Tallaght, Dublin, in 2002.

Trinity College student Ursula Shannon (29), along with John McGreal (36) and 33-year-old John Troy are currently charged before the Special Criminal Court after being found with two handguns and 32 rounds of ammunition in Rahan, Co Offaly, last November.

They were arrested after a failed attempt to get a gun shop owner to open his shop door so the gang could force their way in and nab 250 weapons.

Shannon posed as a pregnant woman in distress in a bid to get the owner to open up but the plot failed and gardai were alerted and the trio were arrested nearby.

The Sunday World understands that McGreal and Troy were arrested by gardai again on Monday in connection with the brutal assassination of McCreevy.

The were quizzed by detectives about the execution of 23 year-old McCreevy, who was gunned down outside his parents’ home in Tallaght, west Dublin, in February 2002.

It can also be revealed that McCreevy was murdered because he was selling heroin for one of the country’s biggest dealers, which was a major embarrassment to the IRA because one of his close relations was a senior Provo.

McCreevy, from Belgard Heights in Tallaght, had been arrested in November 2001 with €100,000 worth of heroin and cannabis. He was one of the prime targets of Operation

Jumbo, which was a major crackdown on the activities of criminal heavyweight Jeffrey Mitchell.

Mitchell was one of the country’s most successful drug dealers and McCreevy was one of his most trusted couriers.

However, the IRA decided that he had to go because he was drawing too much attention on the terror group, as he was openly dealing drugs despite the fact his relation led the Provos’ ‘campaign’ against dealing.

He was warned on several occasions that if he did not distance himself from Mitchell, then he would be murdered.

He refused and it is thought that the officer in command of the Dublin branch of the IRA sanctioned his murder, without informing McCreevy’s relation of his plans.

A professional hitman approached the victim as he left home to go to work and calmly opened fire, shooting him several times in the head and body.

He escaped in a stolen car which was later found burnt out.

Gardai always suspected that the IRA had been responsible but they got a major break in the case when McGreal, Troy and Shannon were arrested in Offaly last November.

The trio have been charged with the unlawful possession of a 9mm Taurus PT92 semi-automatic pistol, a 9mm Walther P5 semi-automatic pistol, a stun gun and the possession of 36 rounds of 9mm ammunition.

McGreal, from Palmer Road in Rush, north County Dublin, and Troy, from Dunard Avenue in Cabra on the capital’s northside, are also charged with membership of the IRA.

The three were released on bail and their trial is expected to go ahead later this year.

McCreevy’s boss, Jeffrey Mitchell, was one of Ireland’s most senior dealers in the early 2000s.

His gang was shipping an estimated 40 kilos of heroin into the country each month and making massive profits.

However, just three months after McCreevy was whacked, justice caught up with Mitchell when he was arrested in the middle of an armed robbery on a jewellery shop.

He was jailed for six years and was seriously injured in prison after being slashed by fellow inmates.

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Murder accomplice gets €45,000 under Witness Protection Programme, court hears.

A murder accomplice with immunity from prosecution receives €45,000 annually from the State for himself and his family while living under witness protection.



A Detective Superintendent confirmed the payments while being cross examined by the defence in a Dublin murder trial at the Central Criminal Court.

Christopher Zambra (38) of Galtymore Road, Drimnagh, Dublin has pleaded not guilty to murdering 33-year-old John Carroll.

The Charlemont Street native was shot dead on February 18, 2009 as he socialised in Grumpy Jacks pub in The Coombe.

Accomplice-turned State witness Joseph O’Brien has testified that Zambra ordered the murder.

O’Brien (28) said that the accused told him to source the motorbike used in the killing and to destroy it afterwards.

The trial has heard that O’Brien was never charged in connection with the murder despite admitting his involvement.

Now in the Witness Security Programme (WSP) and living in another jurisdiction, he testified in the knowledge that nothing he said could be used against him.

Detective Superintendent Liam King today confirmed that the State pays O’Brien, his partner and two children about €45,000 in cash and allowances annually as part of the WSP.

D Super King, who is responsible for the programme, agreed with Michael O’Higgins SC, defending, that a person would need to earn €65,000 per year gross in order to end up with €45,000.

He had already explained that the family received the equivalent of a similar family on social welfare, along with a contribution towards utilities, €315 per week in rent allowance and at least €40 per week for healthcare.

He also confirmed that the DPP had not been informed that a file on O’Brien existed in the possession of the ‘Host Force’ outside the jurisdiction.

He agreed that this foreign force was precluded from voluntarily disclosing its records for security reasons. He agreed that steps could have been taken to have this information released on a non-voluntary basis.

After making enquiries, he also said that O’Brien’s sworn testimony that his partner was now his ex-partner was incorrect.

The trial continues before Mr Justice Patrick McCarthy and a jury of eight women and four men.

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John Dundon admitted to hospital.

A male prisoner has been taken from Portlaoise Prison to hospital.
RTÉ News understands he is John Dundon, who is in custody awaiting trial for murder.
He has been on hunger strike at Portlaoise Prison for a number of days.

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MOBSTER John Dundon has refused water for the last five days after going on hunger strike in protest at his failure to have his murder trial adjourned, a source has revealed.

Dundon has been refusing food for the last five weeks in the Midlands Prison and has dropped from 18 and a half stone to 11 and a half stone.

The notorious Limerick criminal is now also claiming he has refused all water for the last five days before his upcoming trial, which is due to start on Tuesday.

On Friday, Dundon (29), from Hyde Road, failed in his bid to have his trial for the murder of rugby player Shane Geoghegan adjourned.

He had brought High Court proceedings over the Special Criminal Court’s refusal to adjourn his case until 2014.

He sought the adjournment because his lawyers claim they have not been given sufficient time to go through the large volume of material, including CCTV footage and documentation, about the case furnished to them by gardai.

A source said Dundon claims he suffered a similar “injustice” during his previous trial for the murder of bouncer Brian Fitzgerald.

Dundon was acquitted of murder after documents given to the defence proved supergrass witness James Martin Cahill was unreliable.

The source said: “Dundon claims his lawyers have not been given time to go through more than 26,000 pages of documents given to him by prosecutors.

“He has been saying it took the prosecution seven months to prepare, but he is only getting two weeks to mount a defence.”

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Murdered Athy man was prominent Republican.

A man who died in the early hours of this morning after being found badly beaten in Athy, Co Kildare was a prominent member of the Republican movement who had convictions for bombing and remained supportive of dissident republicanism in recent years.
Larry Keane, a 56-year-old father of six, who served in the Army from 1974 to 1980 including a stint in Lebanon, was found unconscious with serious head injuries in a laneway in Athy at 11.50pm last night.
Paramedics treated him at the scene before he was taken by ambulance to Naas General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 5am.
In 1998 he was caught be gardai driving a car bomb twice the size of the Omagh bomb onto a car ferry in Dun Laoghaire, south Dublin.
The bomb was bound for England but Keane from Cloney, Athy, claimed at the time he was transporting it for payment and denied he was a member of any illegal organisation.
Last September he was a prominent figure among mourners at the funeral in Donaghmede, north Dublin, of Real IRA leader in Dublin Alan Ryan who was shot dead.
A large amount of blood was visible in the spot where his body was found and the laneway was sealed off immediately gardai arrived. The laneway underwent a forensic examination yesterday by members of the Garda Technical Bureau.
While the results of a post mortem on the remains of Keane have not been officially released, Garda sources said the dead man had suffered catastrophic injuries to the back of his head and was either kicked to death or beaten by somebody using a blunt weapon.
A number of witnesses have report sightings of the dead man up to around 11.30pm, suggesting he had been attacked only shortly before his body was found.
The laneway where he was found bloodied and unconscious joins Dukes Lane to the Greenhills estate in Athy.
While the dead man had spent time in prison after being caught with bomb making equipment he also had at least four convictions for violent assault, the latest of these was recorded at the end of last year.
Gardai believe he had regularly become involved in verbal and sometimes physical alternations around Athy where he lived and was well known. Detectives investigating his death believe the fatal attack on him was the outcome of one such altercation and was most likely not linked to his involvement with dissident republicans.
In 1998 at the Special Criminal Court he pleaded guilty to having 980 lbs of an improvised explosive mixture, a timer power unit, an electrical detonator, two improvised booster tubes and an improvised detonating cord with intent to endanger life at Dun Laoghaire port on April 2nd, 1998. He was sentenced to 15 years which was later reduced to 10 on appeal.
The court was told that Keane was paid £300 sterling in advance and was to get the balance of the £2,000 on his return from England.

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IRA suspect gets bail despite gardai's fears.

Brian Kavanagh – 20 July 2013 07:00 AM
A 45-year-old man who was charged with IRA membership and possession of ammunition has been granted bail at the Special Criminal Court despite the objections of gardai.

Stephen Hendrick of Balbutcher Drive, Ballymun, Dublin 11, was arrested at a yard in Cloghran by members of the Special Detective Unit and the Crime and Security Section earlier this month as part of ongoing investigations into dissident republican activity in Dublin.

At an out-of-hours sitting of the Special Criminal Court, Hendrick was charged with membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army, otherwise Oglaigh na hEireann, otherwise the IRA on July 3.

He was also charged with possession of ammunition in suspicious circumstances on the same date at Furry Park, Turnapin Great, Old Airport Road, Cloghran, in Co Dublin.

Counsel for the State, Garnet Orange, told the non-jury court that gardai were objecting to bail because of the circumstances of the accused's arrest and the seriousness of the charges laid against him.

CONDITIONS

However, presiding judge Mr Justice Paul Butler said the court was satisfied that bail should be granted, as for bail to be refused the accused man would have to pose a flight risk or a risk of witness interference, while there was also no objection to bail under Section 2 of the Bail Act, 1997.

He said that bail would be set on two independent sureties of €43,000 and €20,000, and on Hendrick's own bond of €100.

Mr Justice Butler said that the accused must abide by a number of conditions, including signing on daily at Ballymun Garda Station between 9am and 9pm and living at his home address.

Hendrick must observe a curfew between midnight and 7am, must surrender his passport and cannot apply for any new travel documentation nor leave the jurisdiction, which includes travel to Northern Ireland.

Mr Justice Butler said the accused must provide a mobile phone number to gardai and ensure that this phone is in operation at all times.

The accused man also cannot contact any proposed prosecution witness in the case or associate with anyone charged with or convicted of a scheduled offence.

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Murder victim was Alan Ryan mourner.

Ken Foy Crime correspondent – 20 July 2013 07:00 AM
A 56-year-old man who gardai believe was beaten to death at midnight yesterday was a prominent mourner at the funeral of Real IRA terror chief Alan Ryan.

Larry Keane (56) suffered fatal injuries to the back of his head when he was assaulted in a laneway at midnight in Athy, Co Kildare, yesterday.

He was still alive when he was found by a passer-by but died in hospital at 5am yesterday.

Former soldier Keane had been jailed for 15 years for transporting a bomb twice the size of the Omagh bomb.

This sentence was later reduced to 10 years on appeal.



ASSAULT

A senior source explained: "Mr Keane suffered a horrendous hiding.

"Because of the severe injuries to the back of his head, gardai first thought that they were caused by a weapon but it now seems far more likely that he was kicked to death.

"Gardai are looking at whether the assault is linked to Keane's links to dissident Republicanism.

"What is known is that Keane was photographed by detectives at the Alan Ryan funeral last September when he stood beside the colour party outside the church.

"And he has been trading off his reputation as a Republican hardman around Athy for years, even though he has become frail in recent times."

This did not stop Keane being involved in a number of assaults and he received a six-month suspended sentence last November for his role in assaulting a local man.

In December 1998, Keane, a father-of-six from Cloney, Athy, Co Kildare, pleaded guilty to having 980lb of an improvised explosive mixture, a timer power unit, an electrical detonator, two improvised booster tubes and an improvised detonating cord with intent to endanger life.

The bomb was destined for England.

The home-made explosives were packed into a silage bag which filled the boot of a stolen red BMW car that Keane was driving.

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IRA sympathisers agree not to fire shots over Larry Keane coffin.

Associates of IRA sympathiser agreed not to fire a volley of shots over his coffin but the ceremony had all the other hallmarks of a paramilitary funeral.

Keane (56) was found seriously injured following an assault in a laneway between two housing estates in Athy on July 18. He had suffered head injuries and died despite efforts of gardai and the emergency services.

Keane was a notorious figure in the IRA and was sentenced to 15 years for what was believed to be a plot to bomb the Grand National in Aintree in 1998.

The sentence was reduced to 10 years on appeal.

Gardai allowed Keane's associates to wear black berets and permitted elements of Republican traditions, but banned a volley of shots over the coffin as had happened at the funeral of Dublin Real IRA leader Alan Ryan last September.

Uniformed gardai, backed up by members of the Armed Support Unit and mounted units, were visible in the streets and outside Keane’s Athy home.

A number of cars were being searched on approach to the town.

Black flags hung from windows and lamp posts, and a tricolour was placed in the window of the house with the words ‘Oglaigh Larry Keane RIP’ written in red across the flag.

Outside in the rain a party waited for the remains of Keane to be brought from the house.

Wearing black, berets, ties, trousers, shoes and gloves, along with white shirts, they stood to attention as the coffin draped in the tricolour was brought out.

A beret and gloves adorned the coffin also which was walked to St Michael's parish church as a lone piper played.

Keane's body was released to his family this week and lay in repose in his son Laurence's house in Castlepark overnight where a family rosary was held.

The house is close to where Keane was attacked.

His remains were due to be buried in St Michael's new cemetery this afternoon.

Detectives kept a close eye on the event amid expectations that it would attract senior figures in the Real IRA. Members of the Divisional Crime Scene Investigation Unit also video recorded the funeral procession.

Members of the 32 County Sovereign Movement – known as the political wing of the IRA – held a demonstration in Athy last week after what they saw as delays in the release of Keane's body.

A spokesman for the group said a “full republican funeral” was being planned but that no volley of shots would be fired.

Gardai investigating Keane's murder arrested a 47-year-old man in the Athy area last Thursday. He was later released without charge.

Gardai are continuing to appeal for information about the assault that led to Keane's death.

By Conor Feehan – 31 July 2013

ARMED gardai flanked the funeral cortege of murdered dissident Larry ‘Bomber’ Keane today.

Detectives do not believe there is any terrorist connection to the murder.

In December 1998, dad-of-six Keane from Cloney, Athy, Co Kildare, pleaded guilty to having 980lb of an improvised explosive mixture, a timer power unit, an electrical detonator, two improvised booster tubes and an improvised detonating cord with intent to endanger life at Dun Laoghaire port eight months earlier.

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They are after shooting me'

Ken Foy, Crime Correspondent – 07 August 2013 02:30 PM

A MAN who drove himself to a garda station after being shot in the head had been stalked for days.


Detectives are investigating reports that Gerry O'Neill (33) had been targeted by two separate gangs.

In dramatic scenes around 9.40pm last night he was chased by a gunman on a motorbike who was recklessly firing shots on a city street.

After driving more than a kilometre from Seville Place

to Store Street, O'Neill stumbled into the garda station shouting: "They're after shooting me, they're after shooting me."

He is expected to survive even though the bullet went through his head and exited his mouth.

It is the second time in just over a year that he has escaped a murder attempt. In May 2012 he drove to Cloverhill Prison to escape his attacker.

Gardai at the front desk in Store Street station last night were shocked when O'Neill arrived at the station with blood pumping from a head wound.

"It was chaos in there and it wasn't helped by the fact that his car was pulled up outside on a Luas track which led to lots of onlookers gathering around," a source explained.

Today senior sources revealed that detectives are probing two different crime gangs suspected of being involved in the attempted murder.

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One is the mob led by exiled gangster 'Fat' Freddie Thompson, while the other is an up-and-coming crew based in Newbridge, Co Kildare.

A source told the Herald: "Both these theories are being looked at but what is not in doubt is that Mr O'Neill had been under surveillance for a number of days – the culprits had built up a pattern of his movements.

"The gunman knew his movements and had been waiting for him in the Sheriff Street area last night.

"Gardai are also satisfied that last night's attempted murder is linked to the incident in which Mr O'Neill was lucky to survive when he was shot in Ballyfermot last May."

His Mercedes car was abandoned halfway on the path and on the Luas tracks which caused a suspension of tram services last night.

The back windscreen was blown out and there was a bullet hole in the front window.

Just a couple of minutes before abandoning his car at Store Street, O'Neill had been shot as he pulled up on a kerb at Seville Place and the junction of Oriel Street Lower.

He then drove from that location onto Amiens Street while being pursued by the hit team on a motorbike. The gunman continued to fire shots until O'Neill miraculously was able to rush into the doors of the garda station.

At around 11pm on May 15 last year, O'Neill had another lucky escape when the he was shot as he sat in his Audi A4 car outside Ruby Finnegans pub in Ballyfermot.

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On that occasion a bullet just skimmed his chest. He also suffered a flesh wound to the shoulder. A window in the car was shot out.

In the aftermath of the shooting, he drove his Audi to the gates of nearby Cloverhill Prison for help arriving there shortly before 11.30pm.

He told prison officers that he had been shot and was given emergency treatment at the prison.

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You was right on this matter Wilson no involvement.


SPANISH cops have now ruled out the involvement of hitman Eric ‘Lucky’ Wilson in the disappearance of Amy Fitzpatrick.

Dublin teenager Amy was just 15 years old when she vanished from the family’s Spanish home in Calahona on the Costa del Sol on New Year’s Day 2008.

In an email sent to Amy’s mother Audrey, the embassy of Ireland in Madrid confirmed that Wilson is not regarded as a suspect in the case.

“The police confirmed to the Embassy that they had received the information reported…to the Irish police via Interpol,” an embassy official wrote.

“Their investigations did not uncover any evidence that Eric Wilson was in the area where Amy went missing at the time of her disappearance.

“Furthermore, they confirmed that a property leased by Mr Wilson in Coin was thoroughly searched in 2009 in connection with the investigation of another crime.”

Wilson (30) from Ballyfermot, Dublin, is serving a 23-year sentence in a Spanish prison for the brutal 2011 killing of British man Dan Smith.

Argument

Wilson shot him eight times at close range following a drunken argument over a girl in June 2010.

The girl in question was a friend of the missing teenager and the victim was also known to her, Audrey later revealed.

In the wake of Wilson’s conviction, Amy’s mum and partner Dave Mahon told Irish police that they had been contacted by an anonymous tipster who claimed Wilson boasted of killing Amy.

However, Spanish police have found nothing to link the gangster to the crime.

Meanwhile, Audrey’s partner Dave Mahon is still awaiting word from the DPP as to whether he is to be charged over the death of Amy’s brother Dean.

The 23-year-old father-of-one, from Clarehall in Dublin, was fatally injured when he was stabbed during an altercation at the Burnell Square apartments, Northern Cross, on the Malahide Road, on May 25 last year.

He was taken to Beaumont Hospital where he was soon pronounced dead.

Gardai subsequently arrested Mahon and he was later released without charge.

Updating the coroner on the investigation in January, Detective Inspector Tony Howard said a file was given to the DPP last November.

He added that the Gardai were “pretty hopeful” that they will receive directions back “in the very near future”.

Loss

Yesterday, Dean’s dad touchingly reached out to him on his 24th birthday.

Christopher Fitzpatrick (48) revealed his “heart is broken” at the loss and that Amy is also thinking of him “no matter where in the world she is”.

Christopher wrote online: “Remembering my son Dean who should be celebrating his birthday with us and not in Heaven.

“You will always be missed by your dad. My heart is broken for you son.”

He added on his Missing Amy Facebook page: “Love dad and your little brother Alex and your little sister Amy will be thinking of you today, no matter where in the world she is. x.”

Christopher also posted a touching ‘memory card’ of Dean showing a bicycle, because he loved to cycle and a set of weights as he liked to work out in the gym.

Dean had a two-year-old son Leon.

The message said: “Happy Birthday in Heaven, I wish you were here even for just a little while so I could just say Happy Birthday and see your smile.”

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Court hears 16-year-old went on crime spree after threats from 'local heavies'
A 16-YEAR-OLD Dublin boy broke into 14 cars over two days to pay back a drug debt to a group of “heavies” who intimidated his family, a judge has heard.

The first-time offender had been doing well in school and active in sports until he began abusing “street tablets” which led to him building up a massive drug-debt he could not afford, the Dublin Children's Court was told.

Following a garda investigation it was established he broke into 14 cars during a two-day crime spree , and when he came to court he pleaded guilty to 15 criminal damage charges. The 16-year-old also admitted four connected charges for: possessing a long piece of steel and a hammer use in thefts, theft of €5 and a bottle of aftershave, and one for attempted burglary.

All the incidents happened in the Dublin 7 area at houses at Villa Park Road, Villa Park Gardens and Villa Park Drive, on December 4 and at Croke Patrick Road on January 24 last.

Evidence has yet to be heard on the bulk of the charges but Judge John O'Connor was given details of the attempted burglary.

Garda Adrian Burns told the juvenile court that on December 4 a report had been received of a number of car break-ins. Gda Burns spotted the youth coming out of a garage at the side of a house and trying to hide before he was arrested.

Gda Burn said 14 cars were broken into and property was taken from them; when detained for questioning the boy, who had no criminal convictions, made admissions.

The teenager was accompanied to the hearing by his mother who sat by his side and was visibly upset.

Defence solicitor Gareth Noble explained that “this is a young man who has never been before the courts before” and the crimes happened at a time the boy had become heavily addicted to “tablets he procured on the street”.

He was in school and was involved in sports but both “fell by the wayside” as a result of his taking drugs, described in court as “street tablets”.

“In these circumstances he was not able to afford the amount of drugs he was consuming on a daily basis,” Mr Noble said. The teen was under influence of these pills when the offences took place and his “memory is somewhat blighted”, the judge heard.

The juvenile court was also told the teen's drug-taking led to him building up debts which placed his family under huge strain. Mr Noble said they were “visited on occasions by a number of local heavies asking for the money back”.

“To do that, they suggested he get the money whatever way he could,” the lawyer also said.

Judge O'Connor was also told that the boy was given a “time-scale to get it back” and committed the offences to build up the funds necessary to pay the money.

The lawyer said the boy continued to have family support and his life has become more stable. He also asked the judge to note that the teenager had pleaded guilty to all the charges despite some evidential gaps in the prosecution's case.

He would work with the Probation Service to address his offending and the possibility of reimbursing the car owners for the damage he caused, the court was told.

Judge O'Connor said the teenager, who is on bail, faced very serious charges and had affected a number of victims. He adjourned the case until July when a pre-sentence probation report is to be furnished to the court.

The Irish Mobster, Domenyk Noonan, the head of the Manchester crime family, has been remanded in custody after his arrest on allegations of rape against a vulnerable adult and been charged with lewd behaviour in front on a 15-year-old boy.

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The publicity hungry gangster could face an indeterminate life sentence if convicted of the sexual offences and although he has been bailed on adult rape charges he had been remanded on the charge of conducting sexual behaviour in front of a minor.

Noonan is accused of paying a child to watch while he was pleasured by another adult over the last two weeks.

The Manchester Court has placed reporting restrictions on witnesses in the case but Noonan has protested his innocence.

His legal team has said that it is concerned with the 'conduct of the police' and have claimed that there was not enough evidence to charge the Irish gangster who has admitted stealing one €4m in transit van robberies over the last two decades.

Noonan has spent 32 of his 49 years in jail and has just been released after a nine year sentence for gun possession.

He has claimed that Greater Manchester Police has stitched him up having previously charged him with two sets of sexual offences over the last three years - an assault against a 15 year old boy and the rape of a 24 year old woman - but none of those charges ever made it to trial.

His twitter account run by his supporters said that "we were happy he was going straight, planning to marry, set up a business but in custody for sex offences. It's a set up", the account claimed.

Noonan's own son, Bugsy was sentenced to 38 month in jail for his part in a car ringing gang.

Upon sentencing he shouted '38 months what's that', he told supporters in the dock.

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A Dublin man charged with INLA membership has been granted bail by the Special Criminal Court, despite the objections of gardai.

Paul Mason (26) with an address at Ballygarra Park, Garristown, Co Dublin was earlier this month brought before a late sitting of the non-jury court charged with membership of an unlawful organisation within the State, to wit an organisation styling itself the Irish National Liberation Army, otherwise the INLA on May 7, 2014.

Detective Garda Peter Cooney, of Ardee Garda Station, this morning told State Solicitor Mr Liam Mulholland that gardai were objecting to bail on monetary grounds as it was believed a proposed independent surety of €5,000 did not reflect the seriousness of the charge of INLA membership.

The court heard that gardai also objected to bail on other grounds.

Det Gda Cooney agreed with counsel for Mr Mason, Mr Marc Thompson Grolimund BL, that gardai were seeking bail conditions based on an independent surety of €20,000.

He accepted that Mr Mason has been unemployed for a substantial period of time and that his mother was not a person of substantial means.

Asked if he accepted that a €5,000 independent surety was substantial amount for both Mr Mason and his mother, Det Gda Cooney said he accepted it was a substantial amount personally but said it did not reflect the seriousness of the charge.

Presiding judge Ms Justice Iseult O’Malley said the court was disposed to settle the terms of bail. She said the main difficulty was the amount proffered and although it was accepted that €5,000 was a substantial amount personally, the court found the sum was too low and would require an independent surety of €8,500.

She said that Mr Mason must also reside at his mother’s address, sign on daily at a garda station and observe a curfew between 9pm and 9am. He is to keep a mobile phone on his person at all times and is not to interfere with any witnesses in the case.

Mr Mason is also to stay out of Co Louth, save in advance of 24 hours notice to gardai, and is not to associate with anyone convicted of or charged with an offence.

An application for legal aid was also granted.

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Roy Collins

A man charged with the murder of Limerick businessman Roy Collins ran away from a garda patrol car just minutes after the murder, the Special Criminal Court has heard.

Nathan Killeen (24) of Hyde Road, Prospect and Wayne Dundon (36), of Lenihan Avenue, Prospect, have pleaded not guilty to the murder of 35-year-old Roy Collins at Coin Castle Amusements, Roxboro Road Shopping Centre on April 9, 2009.

Detective Garda David Baynham, of Henry Street Garda Station, today (Friday) told counsel for the prosecution, Mr Michael O’Higgins SC, that shortly after noon on April 9 he got a call about a shooting in the Steering Wheel Pub. He said he arrived there and saw that Roy Collins was seriously injured.

Last week the court heard evidence from Mr Steve Collins, the father of Roy Collins, who said that at around noon on April 9 one of his barmen at the Steering Wheel Pub told him there was “a fellow bleeding next door”.

He said he ran next door to the arcade and saw his son crouched on his knees holding himself. Roy said: “I’m after being shot Dad”.

Det Gda Baynham agreed with Mr O’Higgins that he decided he would head up to where the McCarthy-Dundons were based in the city, which was in Ballinacurra Weston.

He agreed that about 12:15pm he arrived at a house on Crecora Avenue where Christopher McCarthy Gareth Collins, Lisa Collins and another man were present.

Det Gda agreed that he and his colleagues then continued to drive around Ballinacurra Weston and became aware that a black Mercedes car was on fire in the Greenfields area.

At approximately 12:20pm he was travelling from Hyde Avenue toward Hyde Road when he observed two males walking from the direction of Garryglass Avenue. Both youths were dressed in dark clothing and had their hoods pulled up tight, Det Gda Baynham said.

Det Gda Baynham said that as they approached one of the youths, he turned to his left toward the garda patrol car and the witness immediately recognised him as Nathan Killeen.

Asked if the fact he saw Nathan Killeen was striking in any way, Det Gda Baynham said that it was important at that particular time.

He said he wanted to speak to the youths as he suspected they were involved in the earlier shooting, but they ran from the car.

Det Gda Baynham said Nathan Killeen ran across the road on to Hyde Avenue while the other youth also crossed the road and ran toward Crecora Avenue. He told the court that the Nathan Killeen used a junction box to jump over a wall where he disappeared from his view.

On Thursday, Mr O’Higgins told the court that the trial was moving into a new phase involving garda witnesses and evidence of warrants secured to search a block of houses.

Counsel for Nathan Killeen, Mr Giollaiosa O Lideadha SC, told the court that he would be challenging the admissibility of all evidence arising out of any searches and entries to properties of foot of Section 29 warrants, the lawfulness of the arrest and detention of Mr Killeen and all material arising from that detention.

He asked that the court regard itself as being in a voir dire when this evidence became relevant. A voir dire is a trial within a trial to determine the admissibility of evidence.

The trial will continue in the voir dire on Tuesday before presiding judge Ms Justice Iseult O’Malley.

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A jury in a murder trial has heard that the accused told gardai he would ‘do 15 to 20 years knowing that it is over’ when referring to the death of Shane Rossiter in 2012.

Maurice Power (31) of Dranganbeg, Kilmoyler, Cahir has pleaded not guilty to murdering Shane Rossiter (29) in Co. Tipperary on October 17 more than one year ago.

The court heard that the accused told gardai in interview that he had ‘decided to keep him (Mr Rossiter) close’ and that he ‘didn’t want to show the fear’.

When asked if any effort could have been made to repair the relationship, the accused said ‘this was going on years. I should be dead five times over’.

Questioned as to whether he had come face to face with Shane Rossiter before he died, the accused said ‘I didn’t disguise my face. I was wearing a hood.’

Asked whether or not the accused regretted anything he replied ‘no. I didn’t want to be looking over my shoulder. I would either do 15 to 20 years knowing that it is over and feeling the way that I did.’

‘I spent my whole life arguing and now its done. The way it is he is dead, people can get on with their lives.’

Under cross examination by Mr Dominic McGinn SC defending, Detective Garda Adrian Cooke rejected the suggestion that the accused was made to tell gardai what he told them.

Detective Cooke confirmed that he was involved in five separate interviews with the accused and accompanied him on a number of cigarette breaks.

“You were involved in 6 breaks where Mr Power was having a cig break,” said Mr McGinn.

“I suggest the reason was to put pressure on Mr Power to make a confession.”

Detective Cooke replied “no” adding “there was no interaction apart from supervising cigarette breaks and interviewing.”

Mr McGinn continued “I suggest this process was a way of making him tell you what he was going to tell you” to which Detective Cooke replied “absolutely not”.

The trial continues before a jury of seven women and five men with Ms Justice Deirdre Murphy presiding.

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Christopher Evans Hubbart, 63, raped a hundred women over a 12 year period.A serial rapist who has raped and abused up to 100 women is to be released into a small community on the orders of a senior judge, despite going on rape sprees every other time he was released.

The rapist who has undergone a course of anti-testosterone injections and will have a electronic ankle strap has been adjudged to be safe by a senior judge despite passionate objections from the Police and residents.

Christopher Evans Hubbart is to be released on July 7th into the small town of Palmdale, in California after a local Judge in Santa Clara ordered his release.

The offender admitted raping and assaulting at least 40 women between over more than a decade before his capture in 1982 but Police has put the figure at nearly 100 but his release after more than 34 years in jail is considered humane and necessary, according to the Judge ordering his release into the Los Angeles community.

A judge has ordered a serial rapist released to live in a Los Angeles County community in spite of objections from residents, the Daily News reported.

His new home will be in a college town with more than 3000 female students.

He was convicted of rape, sodomy, and burglary at the age of 21 in 1971 and immediately on his release in 1979 he went onto commit another 15 rapes. When released again he went onto rape at least two women a month before a 16 year sentence for multiple rapes in 1982.

A further release in 1990 saw him attack a jogger within two months and he was placed in a mental institution in 1996 where he remains until his release next month after a long legal fight.

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Trip: Kim and Kanye
After shopping in Paris, booking out Versailles and getting hitched in Florence, Kimye have reportedly picked Ireland for their honeymoon

Sunday World spies in Cork spotted the Wests hitting the rebel county this afternoon before being whisked away to the luxury Castlemartyr resort near Middleton in Cork.

The stunning 5-star resort features golf and a spa for the newlyweds to recharge after their hectic weekend of partying.

The couple were famously secretive about their wedding plans and these sightings can't, as yet, be confirmed. A rumour last month said that Kanye was set to hit Dublin for his stag with best pal Jay Z jetting in for the party but this was discovered to be a hoax started by a Dublin nightclub boss.

However, the couple are well-known for their love of the finer things in life and would certainly fit in in one of Munster's finest hotels.

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Pay the bribe or take the bullet, the Mexican cartels warn US drivers on Mexican border.
The Mexican mafia have taken over some US border billboards and warned people to pay bribes or take a bullet, scaring drivers and citizens along the Mexican border.

The brutal warnings with mannequins hung from the road signs reinforced the brutal message, “Plato o plomo” (silver or lead) a message that means 'pay the bribe or get a bullet', according to mafia experts.

The warnings in the border town of El Paso, echoe the direct threats issued by major Mexican cartels for many years across the border, recently appeared on the billboards without notice and as yet, there is no indication as to who put them up.

Police have since brought them down but the investigation continues, as the human effigies have also been taken down.

Across the border, real bodies often are found hanging down from bridges and buildings as a direct threat to those not co-operating with the Cartels.

"Whoever did this went through a lot of work to get this accomplished. This is possibly a message to someone who hasn't cooperated with the cartels. But even if it's a hoax, something like this is going to make the El Paso population uneasy, given that the city is not far from the killing fields of Mexico,” Phil Jordan, a former DEA agent who has worked on the border told the NY Daily News.

On this day in true crime a republican was hanged for planting a bomb outside a London prison..
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The man reputedly responsible for the Clerkenwell bombing – the worst terrorist incident in Britain in the nineteenth century - was hanged on May 26th, 1868.

27-year-old Michael Barrett was born in Co Fermanagh and blamed for the planting of a bomb in a wheelbarrow outside a prison wall in Clerkenwell, London in December 1867.

A dozen people were killed and many more severely injured in an attempt to free Richard O’Sullivan-Burke, a senior Republican arms agent imprisoned in the jail.

A dozen people were killed and many more severely injured when the bomb, left in a wheelbarrow, exploded outside the prison wall.

At his trial in the Old Bailey, a Dubliner Patrick Mullaney claimed Barrett had informed him he triggered the bomb.

Despite a lack of corroborative evidence, and a free passage to Australia for the chief witness, Barrett was found guilty of murder.

He was hanged on Tuesday, May 26th, 1868, outside Newgate Prison before a “vast concourse of a crowd.”

The hanging made history, being Britain’s last public execution.

Queen Victoria was outraged that only one man went to the gallows. She urged that in future, instead of being brought to trial, Irish Republican suspects should be lynched on the spot.

However, a socialist Sunday newspaper stated: “Millions will continue to doubt that a guilty man has been hanged, and the future historian of the Fenian panic may declare that Michael Barrett was sacrificed to the exigencies of the police, and the vindication of the good Tory principle, that there is nothing like blood.”

Possible dissident bomb plot foiled by gardai after cars searched in Co Louth..
image hosting services. Gardai have arrested five men and uncovered what is believed to be a bomb after stopping a number of vehicles close to the border in Co Louth.

It is believed that the device was in the process of being transported across the border.

It's also thought that it was destined to be used in an attack in Northern Ireland, possibly on the security forces.

The operation by armed gardai took place near Kilcurry, Dundalk earlier this evening and the men arrested ranged in age from early 70s to mid 50s.

They are detained at Drogheda and Dundalk Garda Stations under the provisions of Section 30 Offences Against the State Act.

Gardai believe they have foiled a major incident being planned by dissident Republicans.

Hard Dun By: Notorious Dundon-McCarthy gang split and are out for each other's blood.
free image hosting. The notorious Dundon-McCarthy gang have split and are out for each other’s blood, we can reveal.

The once-close allies are now sworn enemies with members of the McCarthy faction taking hits out on former Dundon associates who they believe let them “take the fall” for murders and other crimes down the years.

Tensions between the two gangs have escalated in recent months with leading members of the McCarthys warning the Dundons – including recently freed gangster Ger – not to set foot in Limerick again.


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A prison source last night revealed that members of the two criminal tribes have even been placed in different prisons amid fears of bloodshed.

The source said: “Leading members of the McCarthy gang realise that they took the fall for a lot of crimes they carried out over the years under the instructions of the Dundons.

“To say that they now hate the Dundon gang would be an understatement. There is much bad blood between the two sides.

“It is believed there is so much hatred and vengeance now that the McCarthy gang have taken out hits on all leading members of the Dundon gang both in and out of prison.


Anthony McCarthy (20) arriving at the Four Courts in Dublin

“They have told inmates in the prisons where the Dundons are that they will be rewarded if they manage to get to them and take them out.

“The McCarthys are in Limerick Prison while the Dundons are being kept away from them and are in Portlaoise, the Midlands and Wheatfield.

“The McCarthys have also let the Dundons know that if any of them set foot in Limerick again they will be killed on the spot.

“They want to reclaim Limerick, which they once ruled with an iron fist, as their stomping ground.”

Ger Dundon is the only member of the gang who is not in prison after he was released from Dublin’s Wheatfield Prison in January.

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He fled to England to stay with family and has not been seen in his native city of Limerick since.

His brother Wayne is back in jail until at least 2016, serving six-and-a-half years for threatening to kill April Collins.


Wayne Dundon arriving at the High Court in Dublin

While Dessie Dundon is serving a life sentence for the 2002 murder of rival gangster Kieran Keane.

John Dundon is serving a life sentence for the murder of innocent rugby player Shane Geoghegan in November 2008.

Meanwhile, his cousin and once-close associate Anthony ‘Noddy’ McCarthy is currently serving a life sentence for the murder of crime boss Kieran Keane.

Off-duty Garda foils attempted armed robbery as two men arrested in Dublin..
free adult image hosting. Two people have been arrested after an attempted armed robbery yesterday evening.

Two men, with their faces covered, entered a shop on Lower Mount Pleasant Avenue in Ranelagh, Dublin at around 6.45pm on Thursday.

They were armed with what appeared to be a firearm, but an off-duty Garda spotted the incident underway and followed the men into the shop.

He confronted them and started to struggle with one of the robbers, but was attacked by the second.

The suspects fled the scene in the direction of Mount Pleasant Square, with the plainclothes Garda in close pursuit.

As the men ran they threw the firearm into some bushes at Mount Pleasant Square, where it was found and removed for a technical examination.

One man was arrested soon afterwards following a struggle and the second escaped.

This man in his 20s is detained under Section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act 1939 at Rathmines Garda Station.

Gardai then arrested a second person at 11.30pm in a follow up operation.

A juvenile is being detained at Terenure under Section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act, 1939.

The Garda also received medical attention at St James' Hospital for a hand injury.