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Six-year-old recovering after being shot in neck.

THE innocent six-year-old boy who was shot and injured in Dublin last night is today recovering in hospital.

And gardai have appealed for those involved in the horrific attack to come forward.

Officers today said that they are following a ‘definite line of inquiry’ in relation to the shooting incident — and the scene was today technically examined.

A suspect has been identified and detectives called for all involved to turn themselves in.

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VICTIM: The boy is recovering at Crumlin Hospital
The six-year-old boy is now in a stable condition in hospital after being shot in the neck.

The child was standing in the hallway of a house last night when gunmen approached the front door, which was already ajar, and pushed it fully open.

They fired shots into the hallway and the boy was hit in the neck, either directly or by a ricochet.

A relative of the child was also in the house at the time, approximately 10.15pm in the Croftwood area of Ballyfermot.

The emergency services rushed to the scene to treat the child before bringing him to hospital where doctors performed surgery to remove the bullet from his neck.

The boy is in a stable condition today in Our Lady’s Hospital, Crumlin.

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A date has been set for the inquest of murder crime boss Eamon ‘The Don’ Dunne.

Dublin Coroner’s Court today heard that that the investigation into Dunne’s death remains open but gardaí are in a position to go ahead with the inquest.

Dunne was gunned down while at a birthday party at the Fassaugh House Pub in Cabra on April 23, 2010.

Two men entered the pub and singled Dunne out before shooting him several times in the head.

Dunne was a major crime figure having taken over the Finglas-based drugs operation previously led by Martin ‘Marlo’ Hyland.

He is suspected of ordering more than a dozen gangland killings.

At the time of his death, Dunne was on bail and due to face trial on a charge of conspiring to rob €1 million from a transit van outside a Tesco in Celbridge, Kildare in November 2007.

The inquest has been set for a full hearing on October 15.

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FORMER Anglo executive Willie McAteer has been charged with taking part in an alleged conspiracy to transfer €7.2bn in a bid to mislead the bank's investors about the true value of deposit books.

The defunct bank's ex-finance director is to stand trial after he became the fourth person to be accused of fraud by inflating deposits at Anglo.

Following his arrest today he was brought to appear before a district judge at the Criminal Courts of Justice (CCJ) in Dublin and was remanded on bail pending trial.

His co-defendants are: John Bowe, who had been head of capital markets at Anglo Irish Bank; Denis Casey, 54, from Raheny, Dublin, chief executive of Irish Life and Permanent (IL&P) until 2009; the third defendant is 61-year-old Peter Fitzpatrick, from Malahide, Dublin, who had been IL&P's former director of finance.

The three bankers had already been charged earlier and appeared again at Dublin District Court, in the CCJ, today where Judge Michael Walsh heard there were two fresh charges, for a fourth defendant, Mr McAteer, who has an address at Greenrath, Tipperary Town, Co. Tipperary.

Det Inspector Gerard Walsh of the Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation told Judge Walsh that Mr McAteer, 63, was arrested at 9am this morning outside the Bridewell Garda station in Dublin city-centre.

“In reply he said 'No' to both charges”, Det Inspector Walsh said.

Earlier the court had heard that Mr Bowe, Mr Casey and Mr Fitzpatrick had made the same reply when they were charged.

There was no objection to bail and Mr McAteer's wife Maria was approved to act as an independent surety in the sum of €10,000.

Together Mr McAteer and his co-defendants are accused of conspiring to mislead Anglo investors in relation to €7.2bn transactions between Anglo Irish Bank Corporation Plc, Irish Life & Permanent Plc and Irish Life Assurance, from March to September 2008.

It is alleged that this was to give the impression that Anglo's deposits were larger than they really were.

Mr Bowe, 50, from Glasnevin, in Dublin, and Mr McAteer also face one additional charge each that they allegedly falsified accounts contrary to Section 10 of the Theft and Fraud Act.

The DPP consented to them being returned for trial on indictment, state solicitor Padraig Mawe told Judge Walsh today.

This means their trial will go before a judge and jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Books of evidence, each made up of two thick ring binders folders, were served on the defendants by Det Inspector Walsh. The two-volume books of evidence also contained CD-ROMs; Mr Mawe explained that there was an “electronic format” as well as hard copy.

None of the four men have yet indicated how they will plead and Judge Walsh gave them the standard warning that if they intended to rely on alibis in their defence they must inform the prosecution within 14 days.

After some minor amendments were made to the charges, the judge then ordered that the four men were being returned for trial to the higher court.

He also agreed to make a “section 56 order” for the State to furnish copies of videotapes and memos of interviews to the defence solicitors: Michael Hanahoe, Dara Robinson and Michael Hennessy. Their clients briefly addressed the court to indicate they understood the bail terms and the alibi warning.

They then signed their bonds and took up bail pending their next hearing which will take place at the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, on July 11.

As a condition of bail they must sign on once per month at their local garda stations, they were warned by Judge Walsh.

After the judge finalised his order he warned the news media that nothing should be published “that might be prejudicial or adverse to the interests of the court”.

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SHOOTING victim Brian O’Reilly’s pal Derek McLoughlin kept a vigil outside Dublin hospital on Friday as he awaited news on the criminal’s condition.

O’Reilly (45), was shot in the chest and arm as he sat in a car outside Platinum Gym in Balbriggan, Co. Dublin, shortly after 11am on Friday.

A lone gunman armed with a 9mm pistol fled the scene in what is believed to be a white Nissan 200 SX or white Toyota Supra. He was not wearing a mask and was described as having dark hair. The scene of the shooting was just yards from a crèche.

O’Reilly, who was a close associate of Eamon ‘the Don’ Dunne, was injured, but will survive the attack. He survived another gun attack in Bettystown, Co. Meath, four years ago when a Real IRA hitman targeted him in his local pub.

McLoughlin, who has himself survived an assassination attempt, arrived to the scene of Friday’s shooting after hearing what had happened. He lives around the corner from the scene of the attempted hit. He also followed his pal to Beaumont Hospital.

O’Reilly was sitting up and talking when he arrived in hospital.

Our exclusive picture shows McLoughlin waiting outside the hospital.



Gardai are probing a number of theories as to the motive of the shooting.

O’Reilly had been involved in a row with a gang based in Dublin’s north inner city over a cash dispute. The gang are based in the Sheriff Street area of Dublin and is centred around a family.

There had also been tensions between associates of O’Reilly and members of a Coolock drugs gang over drugs which went missing. The same gang were behind a shooting incident in Donaghmede two weeks ago.

A gunman fired a shot at the house on St Donagh’s Road. The shooting was intended to intimidate a man who was not in the house at the time. It is understood the gang knew the man was not in the house, but his mother was present at the time.

It is believed they were trying to exert pressure on the man to pay them protection money.

“This gang are causing a fair bit of trouble and are throwing their weight around,” said a source.

The same gang were also blamed for stealing a shipment of cannabis herb in Co. Meath in April. The drugs were believed to belong to associates of O’Reilly.

“This gang may have thought they would be targeted by O’Reilly’s associates over this so they struck first,” said a source.

A third theory is that a criminal gang from O’Reilly’s home area of Ballymun on the city’s northside were involved.

While not ruling it out, gardai do not at this stage suspect that the Real IRA were behind the shooting.

O’Reilly had been living in the Bettystown area for a number of years, but is understood to have moved to Balbriggan recently.

It is understood he was aware of threats to his life.

McLoughlin and O’Reilly are close associates. Both men carried the coffin at gang boss Eamon ‘the Don’ Dunne’s funeral in April 2010.

Four months after his buddy was murdered, O’Reilly himself was the target of hitmen and was shot twice in a pub near his home. O’Reilly was enjoying a pint in

McDonough’s pub in Bettystown when two gunmen singled him out.

Eight shots were fired, but he was lucky and only suffered bullet wounds to the chin and arm.

It is believed that the Real IRA, headed by Alan Ryan, organised for O’Reilly to be shot because he refused to pay them protection money.

Months after the killing he went to the High Court to claim senior gardai are in collusion with crime reporters to set him up to be murdered.

O’Reilly, in an affidavit, said that since Dunne had been shot, he had become the target of considerable media speculation that he had taken control of the drugs and crime organisation left vacant by Dunne’s death. He was unsuccessful in the case.

McLoughlin, like O’Reilly, survived a hit attempt while he was sitting in a car outside a gym in May last year.

He was in a car park at the Castle Shopping Centre in Swords when a gunman walked up to him, but the hitman’s gun jammed.

McLoughlin, who was hit with a €600,000 CAB bill in 2010, was one of six people convicted over a violent assault on a man at Ballymun Tower Centre the same year. He was given a suspended four-year sentence.

Last year O’Reilly was hit with €1.2m CAB bill.

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Gardai are confident that the prime suspect in the shooting of six-year-old Sean Scully is still in the Ballyfermot area despite fleeing his home.

The prime suspect in the horror shooting last Friday night has left his home but investigators believe he is staying with pals in the Ballyfermot area and are confident of tracking him down.

The man was involved in a confrontation with a man who was known to six year-old Sean Scully last Friday night and came back on a bike with a gun and opened fire.

However he missed his intended target and the .22 round passed through innocent Sean's neck. He is in a stable condition in hospital but gardai say he is lucky to be alive. The man the bullet was meant for was arrested for witholding information but has been released without charge.

Detectives raided the prime suspect's home on Sunday but there was nobody there and it had been cleared of all personal possessions. Officers believe he might want them to think he has left Ireland.

However they are convinced he is still in the local area and have urged anybody who sees him to contact them. His identity is well-known locally and he does not live far from where Sean Scully was shot at Croftwood Grove.

Gardai fear that if the suspected shooter does emerge then his life might be in danger because there is such revulsion locally that he could produce a gun when children were out on the street.

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Man alleged to be involved in killing of Celtic star's IRA pal dodges extradition due to court blunder.



A MAN alleged to have been involved in the murder of a friend of Celtic star Anthony Stokes won’t be extradited back to Ireland following a court blunder.

Robert Carroll, 27, fled Dublin last year after being charged in connection with the killing of Real IRA boss Alan Ryan.

Ryan, a convicted terrorist known as “The Model”, was said to have been friends for many years with Stokes through his association with the Players Lounge Bar in Fairview, Dublin, which is owned by Stokes’s dad, John.

The 32-year-old was the leader of the Dublin brigade of the Real IRA - one of the breakaway groups opposed to Northern Ireland’s peace process.

Carroll, of County Meath, was arrested by Irish police in October 2012 and suspected of withholding information that would lead to one of Ryan’s killers.

He was released on bail and was due to appear in Dublin District Court last April, but failed to turn up for his hearing.

A warrant was issued for his arrest and he was seized in Wales in November.

He was then held in a high security Midlands prison while awaiting extradition, but following a bungle by investigating officers he was allowed to walk free from Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Thursday.

Celtic FC Anthony Stokes at a memorial party for murdered IRA boss Alan Ryan. Celtic FC Anthony Stokes at a memorial party for murdered IRA boss Alan Ryan.

District judge Howard Riddle told Carroll he would not be extradited back to Ireland as the offence on the warrant, withholding information from the police in relation to Ryan’s murder, does not relate to terrorism.

Judge Riddle said: “The offence in Ireland is not an offence in this jurisdiction and, therefore, not an extraditable offence so I must discharge him. He is free to go.”

Carroll initially contested the extradition on the grounds he feared he would be murdered by IRA operatives on his return.

However, his defence lawyer Malcolm Hawke told the court Carroll had decided not to contest the extradition, adding he wanted to return to Ireland to “sort things out”.

Parkhead and Ireland striker Stokes faced the wrath of manager Neil Lennon in November 2012 after he was snapped at a memorial party for Ryan, who was blasted in the head as he walked down a Dublin street in September 2012.

Lennon said Stokes, 25, had “damaged the reputation of the club” by attending the event, and revealed he had been disciplined over the issue.

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Death threat from Kelly's mob over row.

BY KEN FOY – 03 JULY 2014 12:00 AM

A YOUNG man who has been involved in a bitter personal dispute with close associates of one of the most feared gangsters in the State has been officially warned by gardai of an active threat against his life.

Officers are operating extra patrols in north Dublin as tensions continue to escalate between close associates of exiled crimelord Paschal Kelly and a minor-league criminal who is rowing with the gangsters over a woman.

Kelly's rival has already had his face slashed and cars owned by him destroyed as the row spirals out of control.

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A source told the Herald: "Gardai from Coolock called to the younger man's home last week and warned him that his life was in danger, as well as giving him security advice.

"He is in serious danger because of this feud and has been the victim of a number of violent incidents since this feud first kicked off in January."

Kelly's rival has links to a Coolock criminal who has been charged in relation to a 2011 drug-linked killing in Dublin's north inner city.

However, he has not been able to get the backing of the senior criminal in the bitter row because his mate is locked up in jail.

Sources say that this has left him in an "extremely vulnerable" position and cars linked to him have been badly vandalised on at least three occasions in the past number of weeks.

The violence has been happening mainly in Raheny, north Dublin and pals of the under- threat man have also been targeted, with Kelly's mob hell-bent on revenge.

One of the most serious incidents in the long-standing row occurred in May when the younger criminal was set-up and slashed in the face while he sat in a car.

He required extensive hospital treatment and needed dozens of stiches after the shocking incident which is believed to be linked to Kelly's close associates but he refused to make a complaint to gardai about it.

Sources say that his best option may now be to flee his northside home.

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A source said: "He is in serious bother over this - he is now the victim of a serious campaign of intimidation and violence. The criminals that he is fighting with have connections to one of the most dangerous gangs in the State and Paschal Kelly is a central figure in this crew."

On-the-run Kelly (48) is a key member of the gang gardai believe killed Real IRA chief Alan Ryan.

In February, his Cavan home was seized by the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB).

He bought the bungalow in 2004 for €190,000 but it is now estimated to be worth between €250,000 and €275,000. Kelly is on the run abroad and has been described in court as playing a leading role in an organised criminal gang.

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Jordan's plan to avoid €800k CABtax bill backfires.

BY CONOR FEEHAN – 07 JULY 2014 12:00 AM

A criminal who filed for bankruptcy in the UK in the hope of escaping an €800,000 bill from the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) has seen his plan backfire spectacularly.

Troy Jordan (44), from Kildare, is the number-one target on a hitlist of criminals compiled by dissident republicans.

He has also fallen foul of major Dublin gangland figures, including Brian Rattigan and Karl Breen.

His business connections over the years have included Martin 'The Viper' Foley and Geraldine Gilligan, the wife of convicted drug dealer John Gilligan, who is currently hiding in the UK after a second attempt on his life last March.

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Along with Foley, Jordan helped to found Viper Debt Recovery and Repossession Services in 2005. He resigned as a director in June 2010.

During her legal battle with CAB over the Jessbrook Equestrian Centre in Kildare, Geraldine Gilligan told the High Court in 2008 that her only income was €5,000 a year she received from Jordan "for grass".

Despite having a lengthy criminal pedigree, Jordan has managed to avoid incurring any major convictions to date.

He is currently challenging the €800,000 bill handed to him by CAB and is taking his dispute to the Supreme Court.

But in an effort to thwart the authorities' efforts to extract the money from him, he filed for bankruptcy in the UK in May last year.

However, he recently withdrew that application after learning he "didn't have a hope or a prayer of success", according to sources.

Jordan filed the bankruptcy petition in Blackpool County Court on May 31 last year, hoping that after a year his debts would be discharged and he would escape having to pay the massive tax bill here on the basis that he would be technically broke.

But he was unable to meet the criteria laid down in England as regards his businesses there. More crucially, the Insolvency Court contacted authorities here to establish Jordan's bona fides and were told about his outstanding tax deb.

A UK source confirmed to the Herald that Jordan's bankruptcy order was annulled by his own petition last April 24 with "all debts paid in full".

That means Jordan paid whatever debts he had in the UK, but his tax bill here remains.

"For you to present your own petition to annul a bankruptcy would be very unusual, but this is what happened in this case," said the source.

Jordan used his full name of Troy Byron Jordan on his bankruptcy petition, giving an address in Fleetwood, Lancashire, as well as another in Allenwood, Co Kildare.

After he withdrew the petition, the Insolvency Court recorded the reason as "ought not to have been made".

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Gardai believe Jordan is one of the most serious players in the drug-trafficking world and is under threat from a number of criminals here.

After the murder of Dublin Real IRA leader Alan Ryan in September 2012, Jordan was reportedly one of a dozen gangsters summoned to meetings with the dissident group, who demanded protection money to allow him to continue his drug-dealing racket.

However, he refused to hand over any cash.

He was twice arrested by officers investigating the shooting murder of Latvian woman Baiba Saulite in 2006

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Former RUC man still 'holds key' in Sgt Joe Campbell murder.

The old man pictured here is still the No.1 suspect in the mysterious Sergeant Joe Campbell murder case, the Sunday World has been told.

He is Charlie McCormick – a former RUC Special Branch officer – who once stood trial for the shocking killing of the popular police officer.

McCormick was acquitted of the crime but re-arrested and quizzed in connection with the murder five years ago.

After studying a file on the matter for four years, the DPP decided not to proceed with a case against McCormick.

Yesterday, a former RUC officer who served in Co. Antrim alongside both Campbell and McCormick, told the Sunday World: “Charlie McCormick holds the key to the unsolved murder of Sgt. Joe Campbell.

“He is still the main suspect in the case and I’ll never understand why a decision was taken not to proceed with a second trial.”

He added: “If Charlie McCormick doesn’t appear in court for this, then no-one else will. He is still the No.1 suspect.”
On Friday, the Police Ombudsman’s Office published its report into Sgt. Campbell’s murder. It was 12 years in preparation and it was heavily criticised by the murdered man’s widow Rosemary who insisted it fell short “because it does not contain the full account of the murder which I had hoped for.”

Charlie McCormick wasn’t named in the Ombudsman’s report, although there are clear references to him standing trial for the murder.

UVF serial killer Robin ‘The Jackal’ Jackson was named, as were McCormick’s RUC colleagues, John Weir and Billy McCaughey, both later convicted in connection with the murder of Ahoghill shopkeeper William Strathearn.

However, the document stops short of naming anyone as the gunman who pulled the trigger when Joe Campbell was shot.

A 49-year-old father of eight, Joe Campbell was well known and liked in the Glens of Antrim where he had served for many years.

He was hit by a rifle shot to the head as he locked up Cushendall RUC Station on February 25 1977.

Joe Campbell had told senior officers that he suspected McCormick and one of his republican informants were involved in serious crime including armed robbery.

In his report Police Ombudsman Dr Michael Maguire said Sgt. Campbell’s death was ‘preventable’.

He said there was “sufficient reliable evidence” that the then head of Special Branch and probably the Chief Constable “were aware of concerns which had been documented about the threat to his life and had failed to act on them”

Although he was acquitted of Sgt. Campbell’s murder, Charlie McCormick was given a 20 year sentence in 1982 for armed robberies, hijackings, possession of explosives and a rifle used in a bank heist.

It was alleged in court, that McCormick had carried out the lengthy catalogue of crime alongside IRA man Tony O’Doherty.

The IRA man told the court that McCormick said to him: “Campbell is on to us, he has to go.”

McCormick became O’Doherty’s police handler after persuading the Portglenone republican to work for him as a police ‘tout’ and Special Branch double agent inside the IRA.

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Even though he was already serving an 18 year sentence for terrorist crime, Tony O’Doherty became the chief Crown witness against McCormick.

Two years later, McCormick had his convictions for armed robbery and other charges quashed when the case was referred to the Court of Appeal.

And although he walked from court a free man, he was later dismissed from his job as an RUC Special Branch detective.

In 2009, a full 32 years after the murder, McCormick then 72 and in ill health, was re-arrested and questioned once more about the Campbell killing.

The move against the former Special Branch man came shortly after the law on double jeopardy was changed to allow the authorities to pursue for a second time a suspect already acquitted of murder.

Shortly before he was detained the Sunday World revealed the bungalow McCormick shared with his second wife Roberta in Gracehill, Co. Antrim, had been the the focus of a sophisticated listening system based in Scotland.

Before marrying McCormick in 1995, Roberta Gray, a local school teacher, had been romantically linked with McCormick for many years.

During his trial for the murder of Sgt. Campbell, Roberta Gray gave alibi evidence to the court on McCormick’s behalf.

When the Sunday World caught up with McCormick in the garden of his Gracehill home we asked him if he expected to be re-arrested in connection with his former police colleague’s murder.

The ex-Special Branch officer replied: “ I’m not saying anything. I could say plenty, but I’m not going to at the moment.

When pressed to reveal whether he believed Robin Jackson was Campbell’s killer, McCormick replied: “Go and ask Joe’s family. Everyone knows that – they knew that 25 years ago.

“I could tell you things that would make the hair on your head stand up.”

McCormick continued: “Joe Campbell was a decent man. Thanks be to God, the Campbells sat with me in my front room and I told them that.”

He added: “Joe Campbell shouldn’t have been killed in the way he was.”

Shortly after the Sunday World confronted Charlie McCormick he was arrested and taken in for questioning.

For the second time a file on McCormick’s alleged involvement in the Campbell murder was prepared and forwarded to the Public Prosecution Service which considered the matter for four years, before deciding not to pursue the case.

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Gerry Adams slams placing of effigy on loyalist bonfire in Antrim.

Gerry Adams has slammed the placing of an effigy of the Sinn Fein leader on a loyalist bonfire in Antrim as disturbing.

Images of the effigy wearing a Celtic football top appeared on the 'Ballycraigy Bonfire' Facebook page.

Mr Adams asked his solicitor to report the case to the PSNI as a hate crime.

"The figure of a lynch victim on a bonfire is not a welcoming sight for anyone," he said.

"This is a disturbing escalation of sectarian and hate crime."

The Facebook post reads: "Gerry adams is always hanging about in ballycraigy"

A number of Irish tri-colours have also been placed on the bonfire with one carrying a sectarian slogan against Catholics.

Posters of Alliance MLA Anna Lo and Sinn Fein MEP Martina Anderson were placed on bonfires.

Meanwhile, thousands of Orange Order members are taking part in traditional July 12 demonstrations across Northern Ireland.

The Police Service of Northern Ireland has deployed 3,500 officers including riot police ahead of 18 parades taking place across Ulster.

Many officers will be deployed in north Belfast where a march has been banned from passing the nationalist Ardoyne area on the way home this evening.

Last year when the march was stopped Orangemen and their supporters attacked police in riots that lasted for several days.

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Dangerous drugs gang in frame for failed hit.

Willie O'Brien (32) was hit in the chest, shoulder and hand when a gunman opened fire on him at Beechfield Rise in Ongar, west Dublin, at around 10am last Tuesday.

O'Brien is expected to survive as a major investigation into the attempted assassination continues at Blanchardstown Garda Station.

It has now emerged that a ruthless mob based in Cabra and the capital's north inner city are being investigated for the shooting, which sources say is "definitely linked to the drugs trade in the city centre".

A main player in the mob is a 30-year-old criminal who was formerly close to the gang which was led by slain crime lord Eamon 'The Don' Dunne, who was shot dead in a Cabra pub in April, 2010.

An older relative of the 30-year-old mobster is suspected of setting up Dunne who was murdered on the orders of the Christy Kinahan's international crime syndicate.

Sources say that the Cabra crew is one of the best-organised in the capital and launder their drugs cash through a number of Dublin motor trade businesses.

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and they have plenty of 
fellas to do their bidding.

"Associates of Willie O'Brien are very active in the city centre and have come into conflict with them for whatever reason and he is very lucky to be still alive after last week's shooting," a source pointed out.

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O'Brien has only recently returned to Dublin after spending a number of months in Spain. The chief suspects in the attack are believed to have become aware that he was home and decided to attempt to murder him.

It is believed that a 9mm handgun was used in the shooting and that O'Brien opened the door to the gunman and shut it when he realised his life was in danger.

The gunman fired through the door before fleeing, with O'Brien getting shot in front of his partner and three-year-old son

After the shooting, the gunman escaped in a silver Ford Galaxy car that was later found burned-out in the nearby Phibblestown Woods estate. Investigators believe the gang switched to another car in this quiet cul de sac.

O'Brien, who is originally from Lombard Court in Dublin's south inner city, was freed from jail last October after serving three years for growing 655 cannabis plants worth more than €325,000.

His car was also previously destroyed when it was parked outside a friend's house in East Wall in June 2010.

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Prisoners left like 'zombies' after drone drugs drop.

BY KEN FOY – 04 JULY 2014 12:00 AM

DOZENS of prisoners have been left like "zombies" after consuming narcotics from a drone that crash-landed in Wheatfield Prison.

The Herald has learned that the majority of drugs which were on the €2,000 drone - known as a quadcopter - made it into the jail after it crashed into an exercise yard.

A package containing suspected drugs was attached by a rope to the four-bladed device as it hovered over the yard at the west Dublin prison.

While it was initially believed that prison officers had seized all the contraband, it has now emerged that a "sizeable amount" of drugs got into the jail.

Sources say that the highly sophisticated plot was organised by three different Dublin gangs in the prison who then distributed and took the drugs.

"Despite the main ring leader being put into solitary confinement for almost a week after this happened, a lot of the drugs got into the jail and the effects of it were fairly obvious.

"You had fellas going around the place like complete zombies for over a week - it was mostly prescription tablets but there was also a little bit of cannabis resin and heroin that got in," a source explained.

"At first, the authorities had thought that none of the drugs got in but in reality it is estimated that hundreds of euro worth of the stuff made its way into the jail," the source added.

The drama unfolded when the drone got caught on anti-helicopter wires - in place to prevent any airborne escape attempts - and crash-landed into the complex on Tuesday of last week at around 11am.

A number of prison staff noticed the commotion as the device crash landed and attempted to intercept the operation.

It is understood the group of inmates huddled around one prisoner - the suspected ringleader who is serving an eight-year sentence for robbery - and it was believed that he hid the package by pushing it inside himself.

He was put in solitary confinement under 24-hour watch for the contraband to be retrieved, but this did not happen after around five days.

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The drone was seized and has been handed over to the Gardaí who are carrying out their own investigation.

Sources say that it is "possible" that the ringleader of the brazen plot - a 33-year-old career criminal from Tallaght - will face charges in relation to the incident, which made international headlines.

The thug, who is a violent drug addict, was jailed for eight years in 2011 for a post office robbery during which a 
customer had a knife held to her neck while raiders demanded cash.

He was previously given a 10-year jail sentence for a bank robbery and has convictions for offences such as car theft, larceny and drug possession.

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The murder of teenager Marioara Rostas was a precise execution and not a crime of passion or temper, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

Seán Gillane SC was giving the closing speech for the State in the trial of the 35-year-old Dublin man charged with her murder.

Alan Wilson of New Street Gardens has pleaded not guilty to 18-year-old's murder at a house on Brabazon Street, The Coombe, Dublin between January 7 and January 8, 2008.

Mr Gillane reminded the jury that the Romanian teenager had been begging with her brother at a junction in Dublin City around 2pm on January 6th 2008. A car stopped, there was a conversation with the driver, she got in, her brother was given €10 and the car drove off.

"Marioara is never seen again by anyone that cared for her," he said.

He noted that she had phoned her brother in Romania the following day, 'distressed, frightened and asking for her Daddy to come get her' before the phone was cut off.

He said that by September 2008, the car had been identified as being owned by the accused. The house on Brabazon Street that Alan Wilson's sister shared with her partner, Fergus O'Hanlon, had been identified as an address of significance.

The house had been the subject of arson in February 2008 but the significance of the fire hadn't been appreciated then. When it was forensically examined, bullets were recovered from a wall.

"The calibre of bullet used was entirely consistent with the fragments recovered from the head of Marioara Rostas," he said.

Alan Wilson was arrested in October 2008 on suspicion of murder and Fergus O'Hanlon on suspicion of withholding information.

"An informal parade was held with Fergus O'Hanlon. No-one was picked out," he said.

He asked the jury to jump forward to January 2012 when O'Hanlon helped gardai locate the victim's body, where he said he had helped Mr Wilson bury it.

O'Hanlon has since told the trial that on January 8th 2008 he arrived home to find a girl dead in his house and Mr Wilson with a gun in his hand.

Mr Gillane said that the question was whether it was possible to marry the evidence in terms of the DPP's case against Alan Wilson.

"That's done through the evidence of Fergus O'Hanlon," he said of the convicted criminal, who has been granted immunity from prosecution.

"I make no bones about that. He is the case," he said.

He said that the jury's job was to tie the facts of the case.

"That involves a journey through the heart of darkness," he said. "He (O'Hanlon) was involved in the burial of a young girl, who was savagely killed."

He noted that the witness had also kept quiet about the crime for four years.

"That speaks to an almost unimaginable withering of his own humanity," he said. "But, the prosecution says that a core humanity won out at the end of the day."

"The evidence on which the prosecution relies was never going to be from an altar boy or choir boy," he added.

He said that O'Hanlon had already gotten away with his crime of assisting a killer when he decided to help gardai in late 2011. His solicitor warned him that he didn't have to co-operate and that he could be charged if he did so.

"But, standing on the side of that mountain in January 2012, with the words of his solicitor ringing in his ear, he helped the guards find Marioara Rostas," he said.

He said that much had been made of O'Hanlon's crimes and temper, with his life being referred to as a train wreck in court.

"How was Marioara Rostas killed?" he asked. "She was executed in a manner that was cold, calculated and precise."

"Her remains were stripped..., covered up with exactitude with items purchased for that very effect," he continued. "She was buried in a place not randomly selected for its isolation, where existed a well-made, pre-prepared grave."

"Thereafter, Ms Rostas's personal effects and almost every last scrap of evidence ... was meticulously destroyed," he said. "This was no crime of passion, of temper or loss of control. It was the exact opposite."

He asked the jury to conclude that Alan Wilson was guilty of murder.

However, Michael O'Higgins SC, defending, said that he wasn't asking for an altar boy or choir boy in what he described as 'a one-witness case'.

"I will take the commonest street thug if he gets into that witness box and tells the truth," he said.

He said that the first and last things out of O'Hanlon's mouth during his days in court were lies.

"All you heard from him were lies and contrived lies," he said.

He asked the jury to consider the photofit prepared from the victim's brother's description of the man who drove his sister away.

"It's a very strong likeness to him," he said of O'Hanlon.

He also reminded the jury that O'Hanlon had refused to take part in a formal identification parade.

He noted that Ms Rostas had called out letters from a street sign she could see during her phone call to her brother on January 7th. He said these letters could be found in the sign directly across the street from O'Hanlon's home.

"That means she was in Brabazon Street .. prior to the 8th when she was murdered," he said. "It's Fergus O'Hanlon who lived in Brabazon Street. It's a connection to him, like the photofit."

Mr O'Higgins will conclude his closing speech on Tuesday morning. Mr Justice Patrick McCarthy will then charge the jury of 10 men and two women.

A Garda investigation is underway after a member of the public handed in a live pipe bomb to gardai in Cork.

The Garda station in Cork city was evacuated earlier today while an army bomb disposal team made the pipe bomb safe.

It had been handed into the station by a man who found it after it was thrown into a the back garden of house in house in the Togher area of the city

It is believed the man placed the device in a pram and wheeled it to his local Garda station.

The man who discovered the pipe bomb at his home is not believed by gardaí to have been the intended target of the device.

Gardaí at Togher Garda Station alerted an army bomb disposal team, who are currently dealing with the device.

Michael Frazier's abandoned car after the first attempt on his life


Gardai averted a double assassination of a father and son during a bizarre chase across the city involving push bikes, squad cars and the garda helicopter.

The incident kicked off on Friday afternoon in Rathmines in Dublin when a row broke out between the duo and members of a Crumlin family over a woman.

It is understood that the father and son claim they were told they were going to be killed and fled on bicycles in terror, with two cars in hot pursuit.

Both made 999 calls and told the emergency services they were being followed by men with a shotgun and a handgun – and believed they were about to be killed in broad daylight.

The garda helicopter was deployed as the chase headed across the city and out as far as Ballyfermot where the duo finally stopped.

It is understood in the early hours of yesterday morning a pipe bomb exploded and destroyed a car in the area. Officers believe that the incidents are connected but that the wrong car was targeted. An investigation was launched after a well known family in Crumlin were identified as having the firearms.

A spokesman said that Ballyfermot gardai were investigating the incident that occurred around 2pm which involved several teams of officers and the garda helicopter.

“Two males on pedal cycles alleged they were approached by a number of armed males and fled. They appear to have gone in different directions but both were pursued. They rang 999 for help and the garda Helicopter was involved from the sky,” said the spokesman.

Detectives are hoping to get to the bottom of the incident but believe it was sparked by a row between two women.

Meanwhile, a former pal of ‘Fat’ Freddie Thompson is this weekend being described as the luckiest man in Ireland after miraculously escaping a second murder attempt in less than six months.



Michael Frazier (pictured above) was lured to a meeting in the car park of a pub in Firhouse, Tallaght at 6.50pm on Friday night when a masked gunman walked up to his car and tried to open fire from less than two feet away.

He pressed the trigger of a handgun three times but the weapon jammed and the astonished Frazier put the car into gear and rushed to nearby Tallaght garda station to report the incident.

However, the 34 year-old would not say who had lured him to the meeting and would not offer any information to help the investigation.

A few minutes later several people in the Allenton estate in Tallaght dialled 999 to report that two men, who were wearing balaclavas, were attempting to hijack cars.

They had abandoned the car that was used in the botched hit and set it on fire. By the time the gardai arrived they were gone and it is still unclear if they hijacked an innocent motorist to flee the area.

A semi-automatic pistol was found in the partially burnt-out car and it is hoped that gardai may be able to retrieve forensic evidence from it.

Frazier has now gone to ground and, despite surviving two bothced attempts on his life, now knows that he can trust nobody because it is the second time this year that his own friends tried to set him up to be murdered.

He was lured to a meeting in a church car park in Clondalkin on March 26 and a masked gunman then approached and fired three shots at him, hitting him in the back and legs.

However, he was able to drive his Mini Cooper onto the kerb and managed to drive himself to Clondalkin garda station. At the scene it looked like he might not survive but he made a miraculous recovery and was out of hospital in just three days.

He was set up and ambushed by the ‘Fat’ Freddie Thompson mob after being accused of having an affair with the wife of a major criminal.

After initially refusing to believe that the Thompson gang had been responsible Frazier realised that his own friends were behind the incident.

He put on a brave face in public and was even dancing on pub tables showing off his scars and boasting about how he was invincible. However he knew that his falling out with the mob was permanent and they would try to come back and finish the job.

In June he was arrested in connection with a fatal hit and run. Frazier was detained for questioning about the death of Caroline Watkins who was killed while crossing the road at the Luas stop on Davitt Road in Inchicore. Frazier has denied involvement.

GARDAI are investigating the gangland-style execution of a man in Co Meath.

It is believed the victim, named locally as Paul Gallagher, who was in his mid 20s and originally from Donaghmede in Dublin, had gunshot wounds to the chest.

His body was found by a farmer in a field at Ballymacan, between Collon and Slane in Co Meath, at 5pm yesterday.

He is believed to have been a suspect in a number of shootings including that of Real IRA leader Alan Ryan.

He was reported missing from his home in Drogheda by concerned family members after he went with another man to meet a number of other people.

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Gardai sealed off the scene while detectives began a forensic examination and State pathologist Marie Cassidy conducted an examination — a post mortem is due to take place today.

22-year-old Celyn Eadon killed his mother by stabbing her 19 times while he was drunk and on drugs should have been in custody at the time, a report by the Inspector of Prisons, Judge Michael Reilly, has found.

A number of gardai now face internal disciplinary proceedings for not remanding Eadon in custody after it was ordered by a court, reports the Irish Independent.

Eadon was jailed for life last February after a jury found him guilty of murder.

Less than a month after he should have been in custody he brutally murdered his mother.

The judge’s report said Eadon, who was facing road traffic charges, was remanded in custody with consent to bail.

But even though he was unable to pay, the would be killer walked out of Castlebar District Court on the 16th of February and was free until being arrested in connection with the murder of his mother on the 11th of March 2011.

The Garda Siochana Ombudsman Commission is currently examining garda practice, policy and procedure in relation to dealing with people who are committed to custody on remand by a court

Gardai have been investigating complaint for nearly three years (file photo)

Gardai have launched an investigation after a respected officer's Toyota Corolla was burnt-out as he played a football game in Ashford, Co Wicklow.


The attack on the car took place on the recent back holiday weekend and is being linked to a grudge attack by gangland thugs.

Sources suggest a local crime boss who goes by the name of 'The Businessman' has something to do with the attack, after he was rattled by recent increased scrutiny of his activities.

The gang associated with 'The Businessman' have been using the car burning attacks on a regular basis in recent years.

No one was injured in the incident, but insiders suggested the attack on the car is being viewed as a "declaration of war" against gardai by the gang.

Edward McGrath (32), of Land Dale Lawns, Springfield, Tallaght, Dean Evans (22), of Grange Park Rise, Raheny, and Sharif Kelly (43) of Pinewood Green Road, Balbriggan are charged with the murder of Peter Butterly (35), who was shot dead in the car park of the Huntsman Inn at Gormanston, Co Meath, on March 6th, 2013.

The three men were due to stand trial earlier this month but the matter was adjourned after both the prosecution and the defence said the case was not ready to proceed.

The non-jury court has heard that the Director of Public Prosecution wishes to call the men’s former co-accused David Cullen (30) to give evidence against the three other men in an “unprecedented” move.

Earlier this month Cullen was jailed for three-and-a-half years, having pleaded guilty to the unlawful possession of a 9mm calibre Beretta model 9000s semi-automatic pistol at the Huntsman Inn on March 6th, 2013.

His plea was accepted by the DPP and a nolle prosequi – a decision not to proceed - was entered on the count of murder.

Presiding judge Mr Justice Paul Butler today (Tuesday) fixed September 30 for the trial, which is expected to last five weeks.

Mr Evans, Mr Kelly and Mr McGrath are charged with the murder of Peter Butterly at the Huntsman Inn, Gormanston, Co Meath, on March 6th, 2013.

Mr Evans and Mr McGrath are charged with the unlawful possession of a 9mm calibre Beretta model 9000s semi-automatic pistol and seven rounds of 9mm parabellum calibre ammunition at the same address on the same date.


They have also charged with the unlawful possession of a 9mm calibre Beretta model 9000s semi-automatic pistol and seven rounds of ammunition with intent to endanger life at the car park of The Huntsman Inn on the same date.

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A 15-year-old boy has been arrested over the stabbing of another teenager in Enniskillen.

The 14-year-old victim was stabbed twice in the body police have said.

According to police the injured boy was with another teenager in the Round O quay area of the town when he suffered non-life threatening injuries when he was approached by an individual shortly before midnight last night.

It is understood the teenager suffered two stab wounds and he was treated in hospital.

Police have appealed for witnesses or anyone with information to come forward.

A detective sergeant said: “Shortly before midnight, it was reported that two youths were approached by an unknown male in the area. It is believed the male stabbed one of the youths twice in the abdomen. The youth was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment to his injuries that are not believed to be life threatening.

“The male, who was arrested in the Enniskillen area this afternoon, remains in police custody.”

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The three Dundon brothers convicted of murder are costing taxpayers €300,000 a year.

Figures from the Irish Prison Service revealed it costs €94,575 to keep each inmate locked up in the maximum security Portlaoise Prison.

Lowlife Limerick brother Wayne, John and Dessie Dundon are all serving life in the prison so are costing the taxpayer €283,725 every year.

By the time they finish their sentences they will have cost the taxpayer millions.

The trio are housed on the A5 unit of the prison.

Wayne (36) was convicted of the murder of innocent businessman Roy Collins (35) in July. The tubby thug organised the murder from his prison cell.

John (32) is serving life for the murder of innocent rugby player Shane Geoghegan (28) who was shot dead in a case of mistaken identity in November 2008.

Dessie (30) is serving life for the 2002 murder of rival criminal Kieran Keane.

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Gardai believe that associates of a Dublin man who survived two recent assassination attempts have taken out a €30,000 contract on the mobster they blame for the latest botched hit.

The Sunday World can reveal that the contract has been taken out on the life of a senior member of the Christy Kinahan mob, who they believe helped lure Michael Frazier to a pub car park to be murdered.

The man, who is a well-known player in Dublin gangland, fled to Spain after learning about the bounty on his head.

Frazier has told pals that the man, who is in his 40s, was the one who phoned and arranged a meeting in the car park of a pub in Firhouse.

When Frazier arrived at the meting point, a masked hitman came out of the shadows and pointed a gun at his head and pressed the trigger three times only for it not to fire.

The incident was caught on CCTV and the gun only failed to fire because the dim-witted shooter had forgot to put a bullet in the chamber, allowing Frazier to make his escape to nearby Tallaght garda station and report the attempted murder.

The Sunday World exclusively revealed last week that Frazier has surrounded himself with members of the Brian Rattigan gang, because he suspects that his old friends in the Freddie Thompson gang want him dead.

And now Frazier has hit back and has been offering the money to known hitmen in a bid to have the criminal whacked.

He is one of the Kinahan gang’s right-hand men in Dublin and has also links to the Thompson mob.

However, it is understood that the murder of Frazier was sanctioned by Kinahan after the Thompson crew sought permission for him to be taken out.

In order to get the job done, Kinahan told his man to phone Frazier and tell him he wanted to broker a peace deal but to betray him – but the plan did not come off.

This has left Kinahan furious because he is now involved in a dispute he is not really a part off and wanted nothing to do with.

It was the second time since March that Frazier has cheated death and he knows he is a dead man walking because he was accused of bedding the partner of a senior Thompson gangster.

Frazier realises he is extremely vulnerable after the order came from behind bars that he was to be murdered at all costs and he has been cozying up to former Rattigan associates who were involved in the infamous Crumlin/Drimnagh feud that claimed 16 lives.

Gardai now fear that the feud could reignite because of Frazier’s newfound friends.

Frazier started out in the early 2000s as being sympathetic to the Rattigan mob but moved into the Thompson camp and suffered several attacks as a result.

The Rattigan gang has effectively been defeated with most of the younger generation moving away from the feud. However, there are still a small band of loyalists led by Rattigan’s cousin Aaron Rattigan.

Gardai fear that if the increasingly desperate Frazier teams up with the remnants of the Rattigan gang then there is the potential for carnage to break out and the feud to kick-off again.

Frazier own friends turned on him on March 26 when he turned up to a pre-arranged meeting in a church car park in Clondalkin.

A masked gunman then approached from the shadows and fired three shots at him hitting him in the back and legs.

However, he was able to drive his Mini Cooper onto the kerb and managed to drive himself to Clondalkin garda station. He made a miraculous recovery and was out of hospital in just three days.

After initially refusing to believe that the Thompson gang had been responsible, Frazier realised that his own friends were behind the incident.

He put on a brave face in public and was even dancing on pub tables showing off his scars and boasting about how he was invincible.

However he knew that his falling out with the mob was permanent and they would try to come back and finish the job and has now linked up with Rattigan loyalists to save his skin.

Although he is well-known to gardai, Michael Frazier has very little in the way of criminal convictions.

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GUNNED DOWN: Dean Johnson was viciously killed last August
IRELAND’S murder rate has soared — despite an overall drop in most types of crime across the country, official figures show.

Some 60 people were murdered in the 12 months to the end of March this year — up more than 36 per cent, from 44, on the same period the previous year.

The most shocking murders during that period included the vicious killing of small-time criminal Dean Johnson (21), who was shot multiple times in the face near his home in Clondalkin last August.

Two months previously, mum Jolanta Lubiene and her eight-year-old daughter Enrika were stabbed to death at their home in Killorglin, Co Kerry.

Lithuanian man Aurimas Andruska (26) has been charged with Jolanta’s murder and the unlawful killing of Enrika.

This year then started violently when Dale Creighton (20) was beaten to death on a pedestrian bridge in Tallaght at about 4am on New Year’s Day.

Six men and one woman have been charged with his murder.

And republican Declan ‘Fat Deccy’ Smith (32) became another of the 60 murder victims after he was shot dead outside a creche in Donaghmede this March.

Overall, killings — which also include manslaughter and dangerous driving leading to death — increased by more than a fifth (23 per cent).

But most other types of criminal activity have dipped — continuing the trend of recent years.

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Sex offences, threats, negligence, robbery, burglary, fraud, deception, weapons offences and public order offences have all come down.

But the figures show a 6.3 per cent rise in the number of kidnappings, to 19 in the year — with a 106 per cent increase in abductions of children under 16.

Theft rose by more than two per cent over the same period, while there was also a slight rise in drugs offences.

Overall, 10 of 14 offence groups for which figures were produced were down.

The sharpest decreases were in damage to property and the environment, down almost nine per cent; weapons and explosives offences, down nearly eight per cent; and a six per cent drop in attempts or threats to murder, assault or harass.

Acting Garda Commissioner Noirin O’Sullivan said the increase in murders was not down to organised crime but remained a concern for the force.

“I would appeal to everyone to consider the terrible impact this crime has,” she said.

“Not only has someone lost their life, but communities and more importantly families and friends will face years of devastation.

“It is imperative that people think about the potentially devastating consequences of their actions…as lives can be changed in an instant.”

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MURDERER: John Dundon had planned to appeal on the basis of the controversial recordings
A REVIEW of taped conversations retained by An Garda Siochana and the Irish Prison Service has found there were no recordings made of conversations between mobster John Dundon and his legal team.

Dundon (32), from Hyde Road in Limerick, was sentenced to life in prison last August for the murder of innocent rugby captain Shane Geoghegan (28) in November 2008.

He was to seek a review of his conviction on the basis he believed telephone conversations with his lawyer had been recorded.

But Dundon’s lawyer John Devane yesterday confirmed to The Star that a review of the recordings in the possession of the Irish Prison Service and the Gardai has found no such tapes.

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INNOCENT VICTIM: Shane Geoghegan
Mr Devane said: “We made appropriate inquiries with An Garda Siochana and the Irish Prison Service and have been told there are no such tapes in existence between John Dundon and anyone in our offices, or of John Dundon and any legal personnel representing him in any matters.”

Inquiry

In March, the Government established a commission of inquiry into the practice of taping recordings both into and out of more than 20 Garda stations across the country.

The Government has said a potential threat to criminal convictions due to the recording of phone calls at Garda stations was behind its decision to establish the commission of inquiry.

At the time, solicitor Mr Devane said he believed his client John Dundon was one of those whose conversations was recorded and that the practice could result in his conviction being challenged.

However, security sources yesterday dismissed this suggestion.

A source told The Star: “It has never been the case in Limerick that conversations of this nature would be deliberately recorded for some unfair gain to the prosecution.

“The very suggestion was untrue and unfair.”

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GARDAI believe they have foiled a hit by eastern European gangsters after they swooped on gun-toting suspects.

Three people, who are all from Lithuania, were arrested after drugs unit officers in plain clothes stopped a car in Adamstown in west Dublin yesterday afternoon and recovered two loaded pistols and silencers.

The stop-and-search operation was carried out by officers from Ronanstown Station on the Newcastle Road at The Grange, close to Adamstown, just after 3pm.

The trio were arrested and were being quizzed at Lucan and Ronanstown Garda stations last night, where they can be held for up to three days without charge.

Rival

Sources last night said officers were trying to establish what the men were planning, but suspect they were on their way to kill a rival eastern European criminal.

And insiders also said they suspected the planned hit may have been connected to the murder of Lithuanian gangster Gintaras Zelvys — who was shot dead just a few kilometres away.

Zelvys (43) was shot dead at the second-hand clothing centre in Rathcoole, west Dublin, at the start of May 2013.

He was the leader of the biggest Lithuanian gang in the country, which has more than 30 members.

Zelvys, a convicted rapist, was heavily involved in extortion and prostitution and it is known that he specialised in terrorising other Lithuanians.

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Marius Sarzynski, who was being held at Cloverhill Prison over the killing of Aleksandra Sarzynska last August, was found dead in his cell on Tuesday night


A man accused of murdering his wife has taken his own life in prison, the Irish Mirror has learned.

Marius Sarzynski, who was being held at Dublin's Cloverhill Prison over the killing of Aleksandra Sarzynska last August, was found dead in his cell on Tuesday night.

It’s believed has self-inflicted wounds.

Just last week the 37-year-old broke his hip after he jumped from the second-floor window of a court room.

The Polish native was at Navan Court in connection with a civil case which is unrelated to the criminal proceedings.

He ran and flung himself out the window before landing 25ft down on the ground.

He could be heard screaming in agony as prison officers rushed to his aid.

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His 31-year-old wife Aleksandra died at an apartment in Co Meath last August.

After his fall Sarzynski was taken to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, Co Louth, where he underwent surgery.

He was then brought back to Cloverhill Prison to recover from his operation.

A prison source last night told the Irish Mirror the accused was found slumped in his cell late on Tuesday night.

The source said: "Sarzynski was only back in the prison after undergoing an operation on a broken hip after jumping the 25ft from the court room window last week.

"He had been recuperating in his cell following the surgery when he took his own life.

“Officers found him slumped over in his cell. They ran to his aid but sadly it was too late.”

The death of Ms Sarzynska, who is originally from Wroclaw, stunned the Polish community in Navan last year.

Gardai were forced to kick in the bedroom door when they realised her young children had been locked inside.

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Gardai are searching for well known criminal gang after house burglary rumbled


A massive manhunt was underway last night as gardai tracked down a notorious burglary gang busted robbing a house.

Three men broke into a home in Silver Strand, Co Wicklow in the afternoon but were caught by the homeowner returning from work.

The raiders fled and the gardai were immediately informed of the thieves whereabouts.

The Garda helicopter was dispatched in the area but has been struggling to land on the Silver Strand beach due to poor weather conditions.

Members of Wicklow Garda station fanned out across the area, which is less than five kilometeres from the main town.

A security source said: “A man was returning home from work when he noticed a strange car parked outside his house.

“He then noticed a door was open and realised what was happening.

“The burglars were disturbed and took off but the homeowner was able to get a clean look at the men and their vehicle.

Gardai are now hunting the thieves and are understood to be undergoing door to door enquiries.

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Victim has given detailed description of her attackers and detectives have a list of suspects they are planning to quiz

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Cabra Park near Phibsborough, scene of the horrific gang rape
Gardai are closing in on violent thugs who allegedly held down and raped a young woman on her way to work.

Yesterday the Irish Mirror revealed how the 20-year-old woman claimed she was dragged down an alleyway by three men and horrifically sexually assaulted.

Now this paper has learned that gardai are examining a number of possible suspects.

And officers are also preparing to issue photofits of two of the suspects behind the horror attack.

A senior source said: “The investigation has been given priority and a number of names have been nominated.

“Gardai are confident that they will be able to compile photofits of two of the suspects and these will be distributed among officers in a bid to identify the suspects.”

Gardai last night issued detailed descriptions of two of the suspects involved.

The main culprit involved is described as being 5’9”, skinny build, shaved blonde hair with a light facial stubble. He is also described as having facial scaring.

He was wearing grey cotton trousers with a white stripe down the side, a grey jumper with a hood and black runners.

The second man is described as being 6’, thin face with dark eyes and wearing a dark grey sweatshirt with a hood, he has what is described as a distinctive scar on his left hand.

No description is available for the third man.

The Brazilian woman has told gardai she was on her way to work in a Dublin city centre takeaway on Sunday evening at 7.45pm when she was approached by three men in Cabra Park, Phibsboro.

She claimed that the men tried to engage her in conversation but she ignored them.

Moments later she claimed that she was grabbed from behind and taken down an alleyway where the shocking attack took place.

An alleyway beside Cabra Park in Dublin 7 where the woman was viciously raped
The victim has told officers that one man held her down while a second man raped her.

A third man watched on but he later panicked and fled the scene.

The two others, who were not masked, also fled a short time later.

The victim contacted gardai and was later brought to the Sexual Assault Treatment Unit (SATU) at the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin.

A Garda spokesman confirmed that officers in Mountjoy station are investigating the alleged sexual assault of a young woman at 7.45pm on Sunday.

“The attack took place in an open area. The woman was taken to the sexual assault unit in the Rotunda for tests.

“No arrests have been made.”

Cabra Park in Dublin 7 where brutal attack took place
The Irish Mirror has learned that the suspected attackers have been described as being aged in their 20s and all are believed to be Irish nationals.

The victim has been able to give gardai a good description of the alleged rapist.

He is described as being around 5’10” with “crooked teeth and red cheeks”.

Gardai have examined CCTV in the area and have gone house to house in a bid to establish further details about the incident.

Cabra Park in Dublin 7
The estate is just over a kilometre from Croke Park where the drawn All Ireland semi-final between Mayo and Kerry took place on Sunday.

Fans who may have parked in the area and witnessed anything suspicious have been asked to contact gardai.

Officers have appealed for witnesses to this incident to contact the incident room at Mountjoy Garda Station on 01 6668600, TheGarda Confidential Telephone Line 1800 666 111 or any Garda Station.

Anyone affected by this report can contact the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre on the National 24 hour Helpline 1 800 77 88 88 where you will get support and guidance from a trained person.