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Gilligan’s former horse centre has new lease of life.

BY JOYCE FEGAN – 26 MAY 2014 12:00 AM

Convicted drug dealer John Gilligan’s former equestrian centre, Jessbrook, has turned over a new leaf with a new owner and name.

Now named the Emerald International Equestrian Centre its new owner James Buckley was not deterred by the centre’s past.

“It was a bargain. The former history of Jessbrook didn’t put me off. This is the beginning of a new chapter for the place,” said the show-jumper.

The equestrian centre was seized from the Gilligan family by the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) after a lengthy legal battle.

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CAB sold the Kildare centre, on 55 acres, last spring for approximately €500,000.

“CAB were brilliant to deal with. It’s all systems go,” said Mr Buckley.

And now the equestrian enthusiast plans to turn it into an international competition facility with work already underway in Kildare with a wax floor down in the main indoor arena.

Mr Buckley plans to hold both show-jumping and eventing in the centre and is in talks with various events organisers in the equestrian world with a view to tying down dates and fixtures.

“We are putting in a new wax surface into the main indoor (arena) which is 6,950 sq metres and has two tiered seating catering for over 3,000 people,” Mr Buckley said.

He also explained that there is a stables there big enough to hold 50 horses, as well as an outdoor floodlit arena.

Mr Buckley hopes to open the doors to the Emerald International Equestrian Centre this August to host the first shows.

By next year he aims to add two extra outdoor areas and a grass arena as well as a cross-country gallop.

Mr Buckley’s plans have come into place since a sale agreed sign was first erected at Gilligan’s former family home, last December.

Gilligan, who spent 17 years in prison for drug-trafficking offences, purchased the estate for approximately €445,000 in 1995.

The criminal then spent €1.5m renovating Jessbrook into Ireland’s largest indoor equestrian centre.

It was believed to be worth €5m when it was put on the market last year for only €500,000. After its first three weeks on the market there were no bids on the property.

Earlier this year, Gilligan survived an attempt on his life after being shot in the head and chest while at his brother’s house in Clondalkin.

He is now recuperating in England.

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But with Jessbrook now officially the Emerald International Equestrian Centre it has a very different future ahead as its new owner also plans to open a restaurant at the Kildare property.

“It’s an exciting time for us and, although this place was fairly raw when we got it, it’s about 70pc there now.

“We are doing clearing and levelling work and pushing forward with it all,” Mr Buckley said in an interview to the Irish Field.

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'Fat' Freddie goes to the High Court in a bid to get bail.

A DUBLIN man awaiting trial in connection with a pub row last year has gone to the High Court in a bid to get bail.

Frederick Thompson, 33, from Loreto Road, Maryland, Dublin, had been refused bail last Tuesday after he was charged with committing a violent disorder along with two others, on January 7 last year.

But he has gone to the High Court in a bid to get bail and a judge heard today that the DPP wanted to be furnished with “a financial statement” from the accused.

The 33-year-old, who has not yet entered a plea, made no reply when he was charged with engaging in or threatening the use of violence that would cause another person to fear for their safety.

The incident is alleged to have happened at Morrisey's pub, Cork St, in Dublin 8, on January 7 last year.

The charge is under Section 15 of the Public Order Act which, on conviction, can result in a maximum 10-year prison sentence.

Dressed in a red T-shirt, blue jeans and black runners, the married father-of-one, who had been extradited from Holland, had been denied bail by Judge Michael Walsh when he appeared at Dublin District Court, on May 21.

Gardai had objected to bail on the grounds that he was a flight risk and a decision on whether the 33-year-old man is to be granted free legal aid was also deferred.

He had been served with a book of evidence on May 21 and the DPP had directed that he was to be tried on indictment at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, where he will face his next hearing.

Mr Thompson, who did not contest his extradition to Ireland, went before the High Court, in Cloverhill, Dublin, yesterday (MON) in an attempt to get bail granted.

Garrett McCormack BL, for the DPP, told Mr Justice George Birmingham, that an adjournment was being sought. He explained that the DPP was seeking a Section Six statement under the Criminal Justice Act 2007 in relation to a financial statement.

Defence counsel Michael Hourigan asked for the bail hearing to proceed and said that a specific amount set out in an affidavit had been offered but it was now the case that a greater amount was available.

However, Mr McCormack said that that a financial statement was being sought and though the DPP had the right to waive that requirement, it had chosen not to, and was entitled to that documentation.

Mr Justice Birmingham said Mr Thompson would have to provide the “comprehensive statement”. He adjourned the bail application until Thursday but said that it if it is not ready to go ahead it will be put back until June 3.

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'FAT' FREDDIE THOMPSON is being held in isolation in a Dublin jail following his extradition from the Netherlands this week.

The Sunday World has learned that the 33-year-old has been placed in the special D wing of Cloverhill remand prison and is not being allowed to mix with any other inmates. Prison officers are concerned that Thompson could be targeted by inmates. D wing houses high-risk prisoners and notorious inmates like Warren Dumbrell and Wayne Dundon have been imprisoned there in the past.

There are only a small number of cells in the area and inmates are made to eat and exercise at different times so they do not encounter each other. It is understood Thompson will remain in the protection wing until a date is set for his trial on a charge of violent disorder. It had been considered transferring him to another prison, such as Mountjoy, but it was decided that Cloverhill was the most suitable facility. Plea He is due to appear in court again next Tuesday and is expected to look for an early trial date and may indicate his willingness to enter a plea. He was flown back to Dublin from Amsterdam on Tuesday afternoon after a European arrest warrant was issued for him.

He had been arrested in the village of Overtoom, near Amsterdam, on May 5 and was in a Dutch prison until two gar-dai travelled to the capital of the Netherlands on Tuesday and completed the necessary paperwork for his extradition. He has been charged with violent dis-order following an alleged brawl at Morrissey's pub in Cork Street, Dublin, in January 2013. He arrived on board a scheduled Aer Lingus flight and was flanked by two gar-dai during the short journey. Other pas-sengers disembarked before Thompson was taken off the flight.

He and his escort were net by detec-tives from Kevin Street garda station and driven directly to Dublin District Court. Garda Seamus O'Donovan dence that he arrested the father-of-one at 3.2Opm on charged him. Thompson made no reply when the charge was read out to him. The charge sheet alleges that Preddit Thompson committed "violent disorder at Morrissey's Pub, Cork Street, in that you with other persons, namely Anthony Harte present together, used or threatened to use unlawful violence and such conduct, taken together, was such as would cause a person of reason. able firmness present at said place to fear for his or another person's safety". Objected The alleged incident occurred follows ing the burial of a man who had been murdered. Gardai objected to bail because of the seriousness of the charge, which allows for a maximum sentence of 10 years imprisonment. He was remanded in custody by judge Michael Walsh and presented With the book of evidence against him.

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REPUBLICANS have posed in masks and what appear to be real firearms in Dublin,

We the Dublin brigade of Oglaigh na hEireann have commemorated Doco's anniversary with the flying of the old Dublin Brigade flag." Bomber The UVF were behind the attempted bomb attack. There were around 300 people, includ-ing members of the IRA and Sinn Fein, in the pub. Republicans hold commemora-tions to Martin Doherty every year. Sinn Fein MLA Gerry Kelly, a former IRA bomber, spoke at the commemoration this year.to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the death of IRA member Martin Soco' Doherty, who was shot dead by the UVF in the capital. Four members of the group, calling themselves the Dublin , brigade of Oglaigh na hEireann, posed with what appear to be rifles at an unknown loca-tion in Dublin.

Challenged The picture, which was sent to the Sunday World offices during the week, marked the 20th anniversary of Doherty's death on Wednesday. He had been working as a door-man on a fundraising night for IRA prisoners in the Widow Scallans pub on Pearse Street on May 21, 1994, when he was killed.

He challenged two men trying to enter the pub with a holdall bag and was shot three times by one of them. Another man was shot in the neck during the inci-dent, but survived the attack. The gunmen fled, but left behind the bag, which was found to con-tain an 1811) bomb. The bomb's det-onator went off, but the explosives failed to detonate, preventing a massacre from occurring. In a statement included with the picture sent into the Sunday World, a spokesman said: "There is no doubt that Martin's courage that night saved countless lives.

Two bodies have been found in the search for two men missing for over a month.

Eoin O'Connor, 32, and Anthony Keegan, 33, both from the Coolock area of north Dublin, had been reported missing by concerned family members back in late April.

It was thought they disappeared after arranging to travel to Ballyjamesduff, Co Cavan for a meeting with an associate, with one suggestion they had gone to collect a debt.

The bodies were discovered on the shore of Inchicup island on Lough Sheelin, on the Cavan-Meath side of the lake near to Ross Castle.

A Garda team set up an incident room in Kells, Co Meath following the find.

Various theories were explored over the last few weeks following the men's disappearance with a number of searches taking place including in rural Cavan and also on Lough Owel just outside Mullingar in Co Westmeath.

The car the men had been using, a dark grey Ford Focus, was found in a car park beside the beauty spot just three days after they went missing.

There were no signs of a struggle in the car and among the possibilities investigated by gardai was that the men could have deliberately gone off the radar or that they disappeared after arranging to meet someone.

Garda dive teams had been brought in to carry out detailed searches around Lough Sheelin and also on Lough Owel.

The men were also believed to have been planning to call to a house in the Ballyjamesduff area before they disappeared.

An area on an island on Lough Sheelin was searched today and two bodies discovered near the shoreline.

Garda specialist teams mainly from outside the area had been working on areas in and around the lough and in various parts of Co Cavan at different stages over the last few weeks.

The area on the island where the bodies were found was sealed off to allow staff from the state pathologist's office to examine the scene.

Cavan based gang took over duo's drug debt.

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James Powell


A veteran drug trafficker has been arrested for allegedly biting a lump of flesh off a man’s face in a pub on Tuesday.

Crime figure James Powell is suspected of viciously beating an innocent man during a horror five-minute attack which left his victim looking like ‘the Elephant Man’.

It is believed the local man suffered horrific facial injuries as a result of a number of vicious bites to his forehead and cheeks just after 9.30 last Tuesday.

Gardai regarded mobster Powell (38), as a major figure in Kerry’s criminal underworld and he has previously been convicted for drug-dealing, assault and counterfeit offences.

The career criminal has long-terms links to Limerick’s McCarthy-Dundon gang.

A source has told the Sunday World that when Powell was arrested in Tralee, Co. Kerry, he was found with more than €3,000 in cash in his pockets.

The source said: “The injuries are horrific, Powell was very much the worse for wear when he was arrested.”

He was not charged and a file will now be sent to the DPP.

Last year, Powell was released after serving a four-year sentence for selling counterfeit DVDs, contraband cigarettes and downers and a separate two-and-a-half year sentence for drug offences.

Gardai also believe Powell was behind a massive €500,000 mephedrone shipment seized in June 2011. A total of 10 kilos of mephedrone and 8,000 ecstasy tablets were seized during a raid on a house in Tralee.

Last year, legal secretary Fiona Dineen was given a three-year sentence in Tralee Circuit Court after pleading guilty to charges in connection to the drugs seizure – one of the biggest in the history of Co. Kerry.

Gardai believe Dineen – who has no previous convictions – was used by Powell’s Tralee-based mob to store the drugs because she had no criminal record.

After Dineen was caught red-handed, Powell was arrested by gardai, but refused to answer questions about the drugs.

He was never charged in connection with the drugs seizure.

In May 2012, Powell was jailed for two-and-a-half years after he was caught with €5,000 worth of valium-type tablets. Powell – who was also caught with €8,000 in cash – had been spotted buying the tablets off a member of a notorious West Dublin gang.

It was not the first time he was jailed for his involvement in the drugs trade.

In 2003, he was jailed for four years in connection with a seizure of 30 kilos of cannabis – with an estimated street value of more than €250,000.

Powell – who has 23 previous convictions – is said to be “extremely close” to a notorious Limerick mobster who is the chief suspect for the murder of bouncer Brian Fitzgerald.

In 2012, he was jailed for three years after he was caught with 49,240 contraband cigarettes, pirate DVDs, fake Xbox games and DVD-making equipment, following a garda raid in June 2009.

The cigarettes were estimated to be worth a total of €20,508 and did not contain any revenue stamps. During garda interviews, Powell accepted the cigarettes were his, but claimed he was selling them to pay off a drugs debt.

However, this was not accepted by gardai, who told Tralee Circuit Court that he was using them to fund his lifestyle.

Powell also has convictions for burglary, common assault and threatening and abusive behaviour.

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Shane Rossiter
A murder trial has heard that the accused told his mother he had nothing to do with the death of Shane Rossiter.

Maurice Power (31) of Dranganbeg, Kilmoyler, Cahir has pleaded not guilty to murdering Mr Rossiter (29) in Tipperary on October 17 2012.

Mother of the accused, Janet Fullop was giving evidence at the Central Criminal Court today.

Mr Dominic McGinn SC defending confirmed with Janet Fullop that she had told gardai previously about the relationship between her son and Shane Rossiter.

“I told gardai about my son and families relationship with the Rossiter family and how all our children grew up together. When the kids were small we would have been very close.”

Ms Fullop told the court that she had persuaded her son to contact gardai following Shane Rossiters death.

“I rang Maurice and persuaded him to go to the station – I told him it was extremely important.”

Mr McGinn asked Ms Fullop if the accused had told his mother he had nothing to do with the death of Shane Rossiter, to which she replied ‘yes’.

Mr Anthony Sammon SC prosecuting confirmed with Detective Garda Burgan that the accused told gardai that he took a chip from a private security camera.

In an interview which took place on the 14 of December 2012 at 11.04am, the accused was asked if he had called to Sharon O’Donnells house.

The accused told gardai in interview ‘I asked her about the camera and took the chip out of it because it would have shown I had the car after I said I had sold it.’

When asked what he had done with the chip, the accused told gardai ‘I burned it’.

Under cross-examination, Garda Lorraine Hogan rejected the suggestion by Brian O Shea BL that the accused had been threatened off camera.

“I have to put it to you that there was a strategy to talk to Mr Power off camera in garda interview. Mr Powers concerns were that his mother was going to be arrested and secondly that his child would be taken into care.”

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

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The man is to be sentenced for assaulting two gardai

A Dublin man is to be sentenced for breaking a garda's nose after going on a month-long drink and drugs “bender”.

“I didn't know what planet I was on, I was out of my head,” Andrew O'Keeffe said on his arrest a few months later.

O'Keeffe (25) admitted punching two gardaí after they had come to break up a large, disorderly crowd at Ventry Park in Cabra on May 20, 2013.

The father-of-two pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to assaulting Garda Michael O'Reilly causing him harm. O'Keeffe, of Drumcliffe Road, Cabra West, Dublin 7, also admitted assaulting Gda Clare McCarthy on the same date.

The court heard that the two gardaí had been trying to disperse a group of 30 people who were drinking cans and shouting obscenities such as “garda scum”. O'Keeffe approached Gda O'Reilly very aggressively and swung his left fist, punching him square on the nose with full power.

Gda O'Reilly felt a ringing in his head and saw lights, then found himself on the ground with blood pumping from his nose.

He got up when he saw O'Keeffe punching his colleague, Gda McCarthy in the back of the head.

Sergeant Patrick McGilloway told Pieter Le Vert BL, prosecuting, that O'Keeffe then fled the scene.

Gda O'Reilly got an x-ray revealing a fractured nasal bone. In a victim impact statement read out in court, he said it had been a “frightening and traumatic” experience. He could not breathe through his nose for five months and his nose remains crooked.

He was off sick for a month and when he did return to work, he found himself approaching routine duties with apprehension.

Gda McCarthy said she felt a sharp pain in the back of her head when she was punched by O'Keeffe and had a severe headache for days. When she went back to work, she doubted her own capacity to perform her duties.

When O'Keeffe was arrested, he admitted the assaults immediately but said he didn't remember very much.

“I have a lot of problems in my personal life so I turned to drink and drugs for a month solid. I lost my temper,” he said.

O'Keeffe has 49 previous convictions, including road traffic offences, drugs, violent disorder, criminal damage and obstruction of a peace officer.

Olan Callinan BL, defending, said O'Keeffe began abusing ecstasy, cocaine and cannabis in his teens and has been in and out of custody since then. He said O'Keeffe is currently working in the bakery of Mountjoy prison and is engaging with Merchants Quay to deal with his drug addiction.

O'Keeffe took to the stand and said he wanted to “get his act together” for once and for all.

“I'm sick of being in jail. I'm a father and I need to look after my family and support them,” he said.

Judge Patricia Ryan remanded O'Keeffe in custody for sentencing on July 18. She asked for reports from the prison governor and probation services.

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Liam Coffey died after taking fatal levels of designer drugs MDMA and PMMA


GARDAI fear an explosion of new drugs coming on the scene over the coming months, as they issue warnings about a drug which has claimed at least 10 lives in Ireland.

Authorities were forced to issue a public health warning following a number of deaths after young people took what they thought was ecstasy – but actually contained the much more dangerous substance PMMA.

Gardai have confirmed there is a definite link between five deaths and tablets known as Green Apples or Green Rolex.

They suspect that five other deaths are also linked to the drug.

The news comes a week after gardai and health authorities were forced to issue a warning over a completely different drug, which has the street name N-Bomb which hospitalised a number of students in Dublin.

That drug, which was a former legal high, tries to replicate the effect of LSD and amphetamines. It has been blamed for dozens of deaths around the world.

But gardai warn it is only the tip of the iceberg. A source said: “There were 58 new psychoactive substances appearing in 2012. We had 73 last year, so you can see where the trend is going.



“The serious problem with the new substances is people don’t know what kind of effect it will have on them. These are not tried-and-tested substances, and can lead to all sorts of adverse reactions.”

Typically, ecstasy tablets contain MDMA, but larger numbers are containing PMMA instead, which has a much higher level of toxicity. PMMA also takes longer to have an effect, which has led to people consuming higher amounts which significantly increase the toxicity.
Gardai stressed that they are not merely scaremongering and people who take drugs need to be aware of the dangers of PMMA.

The deaths include that of Shane Cotton (16), from New Ross in Co. Wexford. The youngster died in Waterford Regional Hospital on Sunday. Pals said he may have taken six tablets.

Last year, an inquest into the deaths of pals Liam Coffey and Michael Coleman (pictured above) at their rented house in Kinsale, Co. Cork, heard that they had taken fatal levels of MDMA and PMMA.

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Jacob Trawoly appears in court with black eyes Romanian was sold into sex ring - pic posed by model


A man who admitted his role in a sex slavery ring turned up in court with two black eyes, after being attacked by what a judge called a “sinister force”.

Jacob Trawoly admitted being involved with Romanian sex traffickers who forced a teenage student to have sex with a string of men in a Sligo hotel, after luring her to Ireland with the promise of a job.

This week he arrived for a sentence hearing at Sligo Circuit Court looking battered and bruised.

Trawoly, with an address at Edgewood Lawns, Blanchardstown, Dublin, told Judge Anthony Hunt he had been beaten up two days earlier.

Trawoly had admitted to organising prostitution in room 4120 at Sligo’s Clarion Hotel.

He told the judge he had suffered facial injuries and injuries to both legs and that he had been getting intimidating phone calls since last October.

The Romanian, who has been in Ireland since 2007, said the messages were still on his phone. They warned him to “think about his family”.

The judge instructed Trawoly to immediately provide gardai with details of the attack on him and to hand over the phone to allow them trace the intimidating calls.

Judge Hunt said: “There is a sinister force behind what happened here. There is no doubt about that. There is at least one Mr Big behind this.”

The trafficked woman, who was 19 at the time, was told she owed money for her travel to Ireland from her native Romania and had to work as a prostitute to pay off the debt.

The woman did not get any of the cash she earned from having sex with men while she stayed at a Sligo hotel, according to her evidence.

She was rescued from sex slavery after hotel staff became suspicious and tipped off gardaí, who arrested Trawoly in June 2011.

Another Romanian national, Ovidiu Pop, who lives in Dublin and had originally collected the woman from Dublin Airport, was acquitted of being involved.

During the hearings at Sligo Circuit Court, it emerged the woman had been advertised as an escort on a well-known website. It is the latest case to link sex-trafficking with the website set up by convicted Irish pimp Peter McCormick.

The woman said during Pop’s trial that she had arrived in Dublin in June 2011 after being offered work as a nightclub dancer in Dublin. “I needed money to pay for school and stuff,” she explained.

She was driven to Sligo by Trawoly, who she said told her “there was much more than dancing to it”.

Judge Hunt praised the work done by the gardai and the Ruhama organisation with the young woman.

He said she had graduated to teach English, was now engaged to be married and was moving to America.

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Seized cigarettes by Customs on display

A SMUGGLED consignment of cigarettes worth €516,000 has been seized by Customs officers at Dublin Port.

The huge of haul of 1.1 million cigarettes was packed into boxes marked as 'Leaf Green foil containers.’

“The ‘Benson & Hedges’ branded cigarettes were concealed in a roll-on roll-off container which arrived into Dublin Port from the United Arab Emirates and were falsely declared as ‘foil containers’,” said a spokesperson.

“This seizure is part of Revenue's ongoing investigations into the organised crime gangs involved in the smuggling of illegal cigarettes. Investigations are continuing both nationally and internationally,” it was added.

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Court hears Mark O'Reilly was forced to deal heroin because of drug debt

A 30-year-old man caught with over €87,000 worth of heroin in his bathroom has been jailed for two years.

Father of-two Mark O'Reilly, told gardaí he had “no option” but to deal drugs because he was in so much debt.

O’Reilly of Swanhall Apartments, Tallaght pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to possessing heroin for sale or supply at his address on January 15 2013.

Defence counsel, Padraig Dwyer SC, said his client had got into debt for €1,200 from his own cocaine habit and this debt had then risen to €5,000.

O'Reilly told gardaí in interview that he was weighing up cocaine for distribution and had made a mistake and given out more than he should, which caused his debt to rise significantly.

He did not reveal the names of the individuals he owed money to, but said he was afraid of them.

“I owed them money, they were going to kill me,” he said, adding that he got involved in selling heroin because he had “no other option”.

A letter from O'Reilly's girlfriend said he had only two choices, “deal or be dead.”

Detective Garda Michael McGrath told Gráinne O'Neill BL, prosecuting, that he arrived at the flat with a search warrant and spoke to O'Reilly's girlfriend. The couple's young child was also present.

O'Reilly was lying on a bed in a room upstairs and when gardaí entered he pointed to the en-suite bathroom and said “all you want is in there.”

Gardaí found a box above the toilet in the bathroom containing compressed brown powder, a plastic bag containing a brown substance and another container containing cannabis.

The drugs were analysed and comprised over 583 grammes of heroin worth €87,462 and €10 worth of cannabis.

Gardaí also found plastic bags, weighing scales, scissors and other drugs paraphernalia. O'Reilly was arrested and gardaí found €1,550 in cash on his person along with a tick list.

O'Reilly snapped a mobile phone in two when gardaí arrived, and when asked why he had broken the phone, he said, “I would have been in trouble if the phone had rung and you had answered it.”

He has nine previous convictions, including seven for road traffic offences and two for public order offences.

Judge Mary Ellen Ring chastised O'Reilly for bringing a significant amount of drugs into a family home.

She said it was only a matter of time before the child could have found the drugs and ingested them out of curiosity, ending up dead or seriously damaged.

She imposed a five year term and suspended the final three years on strict conditions.

screenshot TWO women remain in custody this morning following the discovery of the body of a man in a flat in Ongar, West Dublin.

They were arrested by gardaí who were called to the apartment at Annaly Grove at 4am following reports of a disturbance.

There they discovered the body of a man who was 32.

It is believed he was attacked during a house party at the apartment.

The scene was preserved pending the arrival of the Garda technical bureau and the office of the state pathologist.

Two women in their 30s are being questioned under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act, at Blanchardstown Garda Station.

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The are the dealers who are avoiding Garda detection by selling drugs – including dangerous ecstasy pills – over the internet.

People looking to buy illegal drugs once had to meet dealers down dark alleyways and lanes before handing over cash.

But now, drugs including cannabis, ecstasy, cocaine and so-called party pills are all for sale online and are just the click of a mouse away.

Tragically, this ease of purchase can also have devastating consequences for some drug users.

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A post-mortem examination has been carried out on the body of 32-year-old Ian Quinn who was found dead in an apartment in Ongar, West Dublin yesterday.

Mr Quinn was found dead at an apartment at Annaly Grove in Ongar at around 4am.

Two women in their early 30s, who were arrested in connection with Mr Quinn's death, remain in custody at Blanchardstown Garda Station.

Gardaí say they are not releasing the results for operational reasons.

However, it is understood that Mr Quinn, who was originally from Tallaght, may have suffocated and was found with a plastic bag over his head.

As reported in today's Sunday World, Mr Quinn,a homeless ex-prisoner was well-known to gardai and had served a number of prison sentences for minor drug related crimes and public order offences.

Just days before his death, he was arrested for an alleged assault on A&E staff while attending Blanchardstown Hospital.

It is believed that he was currently staying in a hostel run by homeless champion Fr Peter McVerry.

Although he had a lengthy criminal record, Quinn was not regarded as a serious or gangland criminal.

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A man has been arrested in southeast France in the investigation of a shooting at a Jewish museum in Brussels that left at least three people dead, the Paris prosecutor's office has said.

An official with the prosecutor's office says the suspect has been handed to anti-terrorist investigators and could be held at least through Tuesday under French counterterrorism law. She says the man was arrested Friday during a customs inspection at a train and bus station in the port city of Marseille.

The man was found to have a revolver and an automatic weapon of the same type used in the Brussels shootings May 24. The official said ballistics analyses are under way to determine if it is the same weapon.

The man had arrived in Marseille on a bus from Amsterdam that had stopped in Brussels, she said. She would not provide further information and was not authorized to be publicly named when speaking of ongoing investigations.

The Paris prosecutor was expected to give a news conference Sunday on the matter.

The killings, which came on the eve of European parliament elections in which far right parties had a strong showing, led Belgian officials to raise anti-terror measures.

Video of the attack showed an athletic man with cap walking determinedly into the small Jewish Museum.

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The jury at the murder trial of a man accused of shooting Shane Rossiter have been told they can ‘happily convict’ the accused because the evidence is ‘compelling’.

Maurice Power (31) of Dranganbeg, Kilmoyler, Cahir has pleaded not guilty to murdering Mr Rossiter (29) in Tipperary on October 17 2012.

In his closing speech at the Central Criminal Court this morning, Mr Anthony Sammon SC prosecuting reminded the jury that the case involves both circumstantial and confessional evidence.

Mr Sammon spoke of Mr Powers car being seen ‘burning in a bog’ as being central to evidence. He referenced the evidence of Sharon O Donnell questioning why Mr Power would come to her asking for the chip from her CCTV system.

Counsel went on to say that Mr Power made a very detailed confession in the course of interviewing in which he confirms the items of circumstantial evidence.

The jury were reminded of other matters consistent with guilt such as the disposal of Mr Powers mobile phone as well as his own reference made to gardai about shooting Shane Rossiter twice.

Mr Sammon pointed out that there had been an approach by ‘the other side of the house’ to create suspician in relation to the gardai suggesting there was some form of impropriety.

He told the jury that there was no evidence of a policy being used by gardai and that they must not try this case on any form of speculation.

“What comes from the mouth of a barrister is not evidence even if it is tarted up with the words ‘I am instructed’.”

“Interview seven is where he (the accused) gives a full confession. It is quite apparent that Mr Power is relaxed – that is not a man who has been subjected to any form of coercion.”

Mr Sammon concluded that ‘this is a man who is very relieved’ and ‘no longer has to look over his shoulder because there is no Mr Rossiter’.

“You are not jurors dealing with a case where you have to struggle – you can happily convict Mr Power because the evidence is compelling.”

Mr Dominic McGinn SC defending said that just because the jury saw the seventh interview where Mr Power admitted to shooting Shane Rossiter does not make it reliable.

“The fact that somebody appears relaxed does not mean they are telling the truth or that they have not come to some arrangement with the guards.”

Mr McGinn went on to say that there was a pattern in the process of interview between gardai and the accused.

“There was a pattern where before the interview, the interviewers would take Mr Power into the yard for a chat.”

“You heard the witness say it was a manpower issue. On the 11 of December, Mr Power was supervised on each cigarette break – there was no manpower problem at that stage. In the first two interviews, Mr Power didn’t make any admissions.”

“Then the situation changed on the 12, 13 and 14 and there was a manpower shortage. It was only prior to each of the interviews that interviewing guards were the ones that took him out to the yard.”

“The really worrying thing is that many of the details, things you would expect he would get right, don’t fit with what we do know.”

Mr McGinn went on to say that the details the accused gave to gardai of where Mr Rossiter was shot were not in keeping with the evidence of the state pathologist.

“He (the accused) said the first shot was to Mr Rossiters chest and indicated that he held on to his chest when shot. That doesn’t correspond with being shot in the abdomen a very different place.”

“If he had done the shooting, you would expect him to know. It is not in keeping with expert evidence from professor Cassidy.

Mr McGinn asked the jury why ‘if he is opening his soul’ to gardai, why he seemed unable to help with certain details.

He asked the jury to consider why the gun couldn’t be recovered.

When it came to removing the chip from a security camera, Mr McGinn pointed out that it wasn’t the accused who had first made an inquiry about it.

“Independent evidence is equally consistent with any number of people carrying out the shooting – there is no direct evidence apart from the confession that he did the shooting himself.”

“Mr Power was not clear and because of these mistakes, I suggest that there is no evidence that he was actually there.”

Mr McGinn concluded asking jury members whether based on the confession made against a background of consistent off camera contact (with gardai) that if he (the accused) were your son, father, brother or close friend, that they would be happy to see him convicted.

“Seeing the confession on tape in the absence of any other real evidence, you don’t even have to conclude that Mr Power was there.”

The jury of seven women and five men will return next Tuesday to begin deliberating following the judges charge by Ms Justice Deirdre Murphy presiding.

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The prolific armed robber dubbed the Skull Cracker has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 10 years today for offences including armed robbery carried out while on the run from an open prison.

Michael Wheatley, 55, was already serving 13 life sentences at Category D Standford Hill prison on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, for a string of violent robberies when he was granted day release and failed to return on May 3.

Before being recaptured he carried out an armed raid on the Chelsea Building Society in Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey, on May 7, pointing a handgun at staff and making off with £18,350.

Wheatley, who was recaptured in Tower Hamlets, east London, after the raid, was sentenced at Guildford Crown Court today after pleading guilty to robbery, possession of a firearm or imitation firearm while committing an offence, and being unlawfully at large.

The court heard that he previously robbed the same building society branch 13 years ago and staff had been told to be on their guard following his disappearance.

Appearing via video-link from HMP Belmarsh in south east London, he showed no emotion and sat with his arms folded as Judge Christopher Critchlow passed sentence.

Judge Critchlow said it was a "special case" because of Wheatley's prolific record of violent armed robberies and committing offences after being released from prison sentences.



Passing sentence, the judge told him: "You went to the same branch which you robbed in about 2001.

"You therefore deliberately targeted this branch and planned this raid.

"You knew exactly what you were doing, having committed such crimes so many times."

He added: "It is clear the public must be protected from you for a long time."

The court heard that Wheatley has 23 previous convictions for robbery, two for attempted robbery and 18 for related firearms offences.

He was given his nickname after pistol-whipping innocent bystanders during previous robberies, including a 73-year-old woman.

The court heard that Wheatley has spent a total of 46 years in institutions, starting at the age of six, and has been in prison on and off for most of his adult life.

On May 6 the manager of the building society had warned staff to be on their guard, having seen the media coverage of Wheatley's disappearance.

He entered early the next morning, posing as a man who had spent 20 years in Ireland and wanted to open a new account.

After twice coming in and chatting to deputy manager Christopher Gurdev, he was about to leave when he said "one more thing", prosecutor Dale Sullivan told the court - "At which point the defendant pulled out a handgun from within his jacket and pointed it at Mr Gurdev's head."

The court was played CCTV from the robbery, which showed Wheatley forcing Mr Gurdev at gunpoint to unlock a door, take him into the back of the branch and hand him cash from a safe while shouting "Give me the money".

He also pointed the weapon at a female cashier.

Mr Sullivan said: "The importance of the location of the robbery was that the branch was robbed by the defendant some 13 years ago.

"The manager had briefed her staff the night before about Wheatley, telling them to be aware of him because of the media coverage and his failure to return to Standford Hill."

All but £850 of the money was recovered when Wheatley was arrested later the same day, Mr Sullivan said, but the gun, real or imitation, was never found.

Wheatley was sentenced on the basis that it was an imitation firearm.



Lionel Blackman, defending, said Wheatley went on the run after being refused parole after almost eight years in prison and then again last October.

He told the court Wheatley had been having therapy in prison in between parole attempts and had not applied while getting help.

But the therapy to deal with abuse he suffered as a child was stopped because of funding cuts last July, the court heard.

After his second failed parole attempt he was downgraded and moved to the Category D open prison.

Mr Blackman told the court: "This is a case where a man has spent 46 of his 55 years in one institution or another."

He continued: "He was very much left to his own devices in the open prison.

"Not seeing on the horizon another opportunity to determine his release and disappointed not to achieve a release at seven and a half years or in October, he made the decision not to return to prison at all.

"The plan was to start a new life in Ireland. Regrettably he committed a robbery to fund that new life."

Detective Chief Inspector Chris Raymer, of Surrey Police, said: "Wheatley is a dangerous individual and I welcome the lengthy sentence imposed at today's hearing which reflects the seriousness of his crimes.

"This was clearly an extremely distressing incident for the members of staff in the building society who were threatened by Wheatley and I hope the sentence helps them to move forward.

"Officers were at the scene within minutes of the emergency call and we worked closely with Metropolitan and Kent Police colleagues, resulting in Wheatley being arrested within hours of the offence."

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The trial of two Limerick men charged with murdering businessman Roy Collins has heard and watched evidence in a trial within the trial, which will determine the admissibility of the evidence.

Gardai gave evidence and a video was shown today in the Special Criminal Court trial of Nathan Killeen (24) of Hyde Road, Prospect and Wayne Dundon (36), of Lenihan Avenue, Prospect.

The two men 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.

The non-jury court has heard that Mr Collins was at work around noon that day when a gunman entered his amusement arcade and discharged a single shot, hitting him in the chest. He was conscious for a time, but his life could not be saved.

It’s the prosecution case that Wayne Dundon directed the murder from prison, Nathan Killeen was the getaway driver and another man, James Dillon, was the gunman.

On Wednesday, the trial moved in to a voir dire on evidence of the detention of Mr Killeen at Roxboro Road Garda station. A voir dire is a trial within a trial to determine the admissibility of evidence adduced.

The trial continues before three judges with Ms Justice Iseult O’Malley presiding.

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A 15-YEAR-OLD Dublin boy led 10 patrol cars and a Garda helicopter on a high-speed pursuit for 35 minutes, a court has heard.

The youngster, who cannot be named because he is a minor, is to be sentenced in July after he pleaded guilty to motor theft, resisting arrest and a litany of dangerous driving charges.

The Dublin Children's Court heard that at one point during the pursuit the repeat teen offender drove on the wrong side of a dual carriage-way.

Judge John O'Connor heard that the boy was spotted driving a stolen 4X4 with no lights on in the early hours of January 13 last.

The boy was detected on Balbutcher Lane, Ballymun in north Dublin at about 4.30am when gardai signalled him to stop but he did not pull over resulting in a lengthy chase.

Garda Ross Brierley told Judge O'Connor the “pursuit involved up to 10 Garda cars and the Garda helicopter” and went on for 35 minutes.

The teenager sped towards Dublin Airport, Gda Brierley said, adding, “the manner of driving was extremely dangerous on a number of occasions”.

The court heard that there were six incidents of dangerous driving and at first he headed towards Finglas.

During the drive he was “weaving in and out of both lanes”; the teen ignored speed ramps and continued towards the Ballymun Road where he broke a red light.

Gardai in patrol cars “tried to box him in” but the teenager “took evasive action”.

Outside Charlestown Shopping Centre, on St Margaret's Road, Dublin 11, the boy drove the stolen Mitsubishi Pajero onto a filter lane on “the wrong side and drove up a dual carriage-way the wrong way”.

He nearly collided with a set of traffic lights and took off in the direction of the airport.

Later, at Cardiffsbridge Road, in Finglas, the teenager again drove on the wrong side and was “weaving in and out over speed ramps, at speed”.

The teenager, showed no remorse in court as evidence was given. The judge was told he was arrested “absconding from the vehicle” and “kicked out at gardai”. “At all times, the accused was driving the jeep in a public place in a dangerous manner,” Gda Brierley said.

The court was told that the boy already had 19 criminal convictions, including one for motor theft for which he was given a four-month sentence in February.

The teenager, who has since been released, also had public order, assault, criminal damage and theft offences on his record as well as a charge for violent behaviour in a Garda station.

Judge O'Connor said the teenager, who was accompanied to his hearing by his mother and lawyer, had committed a serious offence and a custodial sentence would have to be considered. But a probation report was required and the case was adjourned until a date in July.

The judge told the boy that if this behaviour continues he will “end up a career criminal” to which the 15-year-old replied, “No I'm not, those games are over”.

The case was adjourned for six weeks and the teenager said “nice one judge yeah” as he was remanded on continuing bail.

upload a picture The man arrested in connection with the hit-and-run killing of 40-year-old Caroline Watkins in Dublin before the weekend is believed to be a notorious Dublin gangster.

Ms Watkins was fatally injured when she was struck by a car on Davitt Road at 10.30 pm on Friday. She was crossing the road at Golden Bridge Luas stop at the time she was struck by the car that failed to stop at the scene.

Gardai arrested the well-known Drimnagh criminal yesterday, and believe he may have been fleeing from a rival thug when the incident occurred.

It is understood he was previously the target of an assassination attempt/ He is being detained under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act at Sundrive Road Garda Station.

Gardaí are still trying to locate the car. It is described as dark-coloured, possibly a Ford Focus and either ’08 or ’09 registration, and are appealing to the public to help them in their efforts.
The car left in the direction of Naas Road. The car would have damage to the front and to the windscreen, gardaí say.

There have been reported sightings of the car in the Fonthill Road, Newlands Cross, Nangor Road and Firhouse areas.

post img Gardai have seized a firearm and a stash of ammunition, and arrested two people following a planned search in Tallaght yesterday.

At approximately 4pm yesterday Gardai carried out a search of a house in Rossfield Park, and during the search a shotgun and ammunition were discovered.

A woman in her 30s was arrested at the scene. She was detained under the provisions of Section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act at Tallaght Garda Station and was released without charge late last night.

A file will be prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions.

Gardai arrested a second person, a male in his 30s, last night in the Tallaght area and he is currently detained at Tallaght Garda Station.

Don did the English ever find all the guys that blew up lord mountbattans boat?

If so how many were there? I remember one of them he was in his twenties was helped out of the country and they say turned up in the US. The Westies took him in. Supposedly he got an apartment in the rockaways an Irish area here. They had a connection with another gang here. One of the gang owned some taxi cabs and put him to work on one.

He said he hated the English because an english soldier killed his younger brother. He got hit in the head with a rubber bullet.

Any of this sounds right?

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Mountbatten usually holidayed at his summer home, Classiebawn Castle, in Mullaghmore, County Sligo, a small seaside village between Bundoran, County Donegal, and Sligo town on the northwest coast of Ireland. The village was only 12 miles away from the border with Northern Ireland and near an area known to be used as a cross-border refuge by IRA members.[77][78]

Despite security advice and warnings from the Garda Síochána, on 27 August 1979 Mountbatten went lobster-potting and tuna fishing in a thirty-foot (10 m) wooden boat, the Shadow V, which had been moored in the harbour at Mullaghmore. IRA member Thomas McMahon had slipped onto the unguarded boat that night and attached a radio-controlled fifty-pound (23 kg) bomb. When Mountbatten was aboard en route to Donegal Bay, just a few hundred yards from the shore, the bomb was detonated.

The boat was destroyed by the force of the blast, and Mountbatten's legs were almost blown off. Mountbatten, then aged 79, was pulled alive from the water by nearby fishermen, but died from his injuries before being brought to the shore.[78][79][80] Others killed by the blast were Nicholas Knatchbull, the 14-year-old son of his elder daughter Lady Brabourne; and Paul Maxwell, a 15-year-old from County Fermanagh who was a crew member.[81] The Dowager Lady Brabourne, his elder daughter's 83-year-old mother-in-law, was seriously injured in the explosion and died from her injuries the following day.[82] Lord and Lady Brabourne, Nicholas Knatchbull's mother and father, along with his twin brother Timothy, survived the explosion but were seriously injured.[83]

The IRA issued a statement afterward, saying:

The IRA claimed responsibility for the death of Lord Louis Mountbatten. This operation is one of the discriminate ways we can bring to the attention of the English people the continuing occupation of our country.[77]

Sinn Féin vice-president Gerry Adams said of Mountbatten's death:

The IRA gave clear reasons for the execution. I think it is unfortunate that anyone has to be killed, but the furor created by Mountbatten's death showed up the hypocritical attitude of the media establishment. As a member of the House of Lords, Mountbatten was an emotional figure in both British and Irish politics. What the IRA did to him is what Mountbatten had been doing all his life to other people; and with his war record I don't think he could have objected to dying in what was clearly a war situation. He knew the danger involved in coming to this country. In my opinion, the IRA achieved its objective: people started paying attention to what was happening in Ireland.[84]

On the day of the bombing, the IRA also ambushed and killed eighteen British Army soldiers, sixteen of them from the Parachute Regiment at Warrenpoint, County Down, in what became known as the Warrenpoint ambush.[78] Thomas McMahon, who had been arrested two hours before the bomb detonated at a Garda checkpoint between Longford and Granard on suspicion of driving a stolen vehicle, was tried for the assassinations in the Republic of Ireland, and convicted by forensic evidence supplied by Dr. James O'Donovan that showed flecks of paint from the boat and traces of nitroglycerine on his clothes.[85]



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Thomas McMahon (born 1948) is a former volunteer in the South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), and was one of the IRA's most experienced bomb-makers.[2]

McMahon was convicted of the assassination of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Mountbatten of Burma and three others (including two children and an elderly lady) at Mullaghmore, County Sligo, in the west of Ireland.[3]

He planted a bomb in Shadow V, a 27 ft fishing boat belonging to Mountbatten at Mullaghmore, County Sligo, near Donegal Bay. Lord Mountbatten was killed in the bomb blast along with three other people; The Dowager Baroness Brabourne, Mountbatten's elder daughter's mother-in-law; his grandson Nicholas Knatchbull; and a 15 year old crewmember Paul Maxwell.

The IRA claimed responsibility for the act in a statement released immediately afterwards. In the statement from the organisation they said: "This operation is one of the discriminate ways we can bring to the attention of the English people the continuing occupation of our country."[4]

McMahon was arrested by the Garda (the Republic of Ireland's police force) two hours before the bomb detonated, having been initially stopped on suspicion of driving a stolen vehicle.[4]

He was tried for the assassinations in the Republic of Ireland, and convicted by forensic evidence supplied by Dr James O'Donovan that showed flecks of paint from the boat and traces of nitroglycerine on his clothes.[2] He was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder on 23 November 1979, but was released in 1998 under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement.[5]

After his release, Toby Harnden in Bandit Country reported that McMahon was holding a tricolour in the first rank of the IRA colour party at a 1998 IRA meeting in Cullyhanna.[6] However according to a BBC report, McMahon has said that he had left the IRA in 1990.[3]

He has twice refused to meet Paul Maxwell's father, John, who has sought him out to explain the reasons for his son's death. In a May 2011 interview for The Telegraph, Maxwell stated that he had "made two approaches to McMahon, the first through a priest, who warned me in advance that he thought there wouldn't be any positive response. And there wasn't. I have some reservations about meeting him, obviously – it might work out in such a way that I would regret having made the contact. On the other hand, if we met and I could even begin to understand his motivation. If we could meet on some kind of a human level, a man to man level, it could help me come to terms with it. But that might be very optimistic. McMahon knows the door is open at this end.".

He likewise refused requests from Knatchbull's twin brother, who lost an eye in the same explosion. The latter, however, has forgiven McMahon and other members of the IRA who committed the act.

His wife has stated "Tommy never talks about Mountbatten, only the boys who died. He does have genuine remorse. Oh God yes.” [7]

McMahon lives with his wife Rose in a hillside bungalow in Lisanisk, Carrickmacross, County Monaghan. He has two grown sons. He helped with Martin McGuinness's presidential campaign in 2011, erecting posters for McGuinness around Carrickmacross.

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A Disgraced ex-Garda jailed last month for drug dealing has been left battered in prison despite being on a protection wing.

Rogue cop Stephen Cooper fell victim to a well-prepared jail attack after crossing paths with one the country’s most notorious inmates, Warren Dumbrell.

The Tallaght man, who once worked as a garda at Sundrive Road in Dublin, was hit with a makeshift weapon, according to Sunday World sources.

His attacker is thought to have stuffed socks with batteries or a pool ball which were then swung at his head.

The 29-year-old needed 20 stitches after the short but vicious attack on the C1 landing at the Midlands Prison, the source added.

Cooper was jailed last month for three years after pleading guilty to dealing cocaine, attempting to frame someone for car theft and insurance fraud. He ended up being detained on the same landing where dangerous prisoners and those thought to be under threat are kept.

However, it is believed Dumbrell and Tipperary man Gerard Browne took offence to Cooper after a run-in over the use of the jail’s official phones.

Normally Cooper’s cell is separated from Dumbrell’s by two sets of gates and inmates on the landing don’t have access to each other. Cooper’s assailant took his chance when the gates were temporarily opened to allow access to the gym.



Dumbrell is a regular gym partner of Browne’s, who was jailed in 2012 for holding pharmacy staff hostage during a robbery. Dumbrell also has a history of hostage taking from when he was a ring-leader of the infamous Mountjoy siege in 1997 in which four prison staff were held hostage.

Such was Dumbrell’s notoriety that for years he was kept on a special ‘barrier’ regime by prison officers who always wore riot gear when escorting him. The harsh regime continued until it was successfully challenged in the courts.

Dumbrell, originally from Inchicore, was later released, killed a man and is now back serving life. He is an avid gym user and even gets to spar with training partners, according to Sunday World sources.

Prison newbie Cooper would have had little chance to defend himself against such hardened jail birds. He has since been transferred to Cloverhill where he is on 24-hour protection as he recovers from the brutal assault, sources say.

Cooper was a member of the force when he allowed a friend to take the blame after gardai seized LSD during a search at the Electric Picnic music festival in 2009.

Cooper pleaded guilty to attempting to get a woman to make a false statement implicating a man in the theft of a car and making a false report to claim insurance for the canopy of his jeep which blew off. He also admitted possession of cocaine worth €700 for sale or supply at Ormond Quay on January 31, 2011.

Before passing sentence, Judge Mary Ellen Ring described Cooper’s actions as a fundamental breach of the role of the gardaí and said that Cooper threatened a completely innocent member of the public into making false claims.

“This does a serious disservice to the public and to Mr Cooper’s then colleagues who seek to conduct themselves within the letter of the law,” the judge commented.

After sentence was imposed, Cooper’s defence counsel asked that he be allowed to serve his time in the pre-release section of jail, as has been the case with previous gardaí serving prison terms.

Judge Ring replied that those were cases where there was an early guilty plea, which was not the case with Cooper.

Evidence was heard how Cooper had shown remorse and worked hard as a volunteer for charity as well as caring for his seriously ill wife.

It was added that that he had successfully overcome his addiction to cocaine which began when he was just 15.

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SICK messages laughing about the killing of Garda Jerry McCabe have been posted on Facebook after one of his killers was cleared of a weapons offence on Wednesday.

Convicted killer Michael O’Neill (63), had been accused of producing a wheel brace in a public place during a dispute in Ennis, Co. Clare.

O’Neill – who served an 11-year jail term for Garda McCabe’s manslaughter – can be seen smiling joyfully on Facebook outside court, while he is embraced by two tracksuit clad men.

Underneath the photograph, one Moyross native has written: “Well done. Jerry mcabe haha..thuglife son.”

O’Neill was one of four people convicted of the June 1996 manslaughter of Det Garda McCabe, shot dead by members of an IRA gang at Adare, Co. Limerick.

This week, Ennis District Court was told that O’Neill, from Abbeyville, Ennis, Co. Clare, was charged with producing a wheel brace in the course of a dispute capable of inflicting serious injury in a public place and engaging in threatening, abusive words with intent to provoke a breach of the peace last January 21.

Sergeant Mark Murphy said O’Neill “took the law into his own hands” and was “the main aggressor”.

Solicitor Tara Godfrey said O’Neill produced the wheel brace to repel five men away from his property after believing one of the men damaged his car.

Ms Godfrey made an application to have the case dismissed, saying: “The charge is predicated on O’Neill doing something in a public place. Sgt Murphy confirmed in evidence that O’Neill wasn’t in a public place – that he was in the driveway.”

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Guerin suspect. says: Wife ended when Veronica died....it was John Gilligan who f** ked it

THE Sunday World yesterday tracked down NW Ireland's most wanted fugitive, John 'the Coach' Traynor. We door-stepped the 65-year-old who fled Ireland the night journalist Veronica Guerin was murdered in June 1996 at his new hideaway in the UK. -;Gardai believe Traynor set Veronica up to be j killed by John Gilligan's drug gang. In an extraordinary interview, the veteran crook broke a 17-year silence and claimed his own life ended the day the journalist was shot.

"When John Gilligan organised that murder he f**ked everything up for us all. The minute it happened I knew my life was over," he said. "I didn't even stay a night in Ireland after that hap-pened because I knew the gardai would want to round us all up."

So that was the only guy they blame for it. No one else?

That's interesting

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Murdered crime figures dad returns after gang threat is lifted.

The father of the murdered Corbally brothers has returned home from the U.S. after receiving “assurances” his life is not in danger, a source has revealed.

Paddy Corbally (58), was forced to flee Ireland in 2011 after learning his life was under threat from the same gang who killed his sons Paul and Kenneth.

The pair were gunned down by a three-man hit squad as they sat in a car on the Neilstown Road, Clondalkin, west Dublin, at around 8pm on June 28, 2010.

It is believed their murder was ordered by associates of Derek ‘Dee Dee’ O’Driscoll, as part of a tit-for-tat feud between rival drug gangs.

Following the clinical hit, gardai believe convicted criminal Paddy also came “under active threat” from his son’s killers, who feared he would seek revenge for the double murder.

The veteran gangster was forced to leave Ireland and relocated to Florida, where he lived for the last three years.

However, a source has told the Sunday World that the notorious gun criminal has now returned to the family home in Clondalkin.

“He has been back for the last few months and is living in the family home, he obviously feels safe again,” our source said.

“His son’s killers had threatened Paddy because they were afraid of him, but he never tried to do anything. Apparently, he has received assurances that his life is not in danger from one of O’Driscoll’s gang.”

Paddy Corbally is extremely well known to gardai and his most serious criminal conviction dates from 1999, when he was jailed for seven years for possessing a sub-machine gun used in a shooting.

Corbally, of Drumfinn Avenue, Ballyfermot, was convicted after a nine-day trial of having a copy of an Ingram submachine gun and ammunition with intent to endanger life.

The court heard that Corbally snr had refused to hand over cash to a man after he called to collect money on May 11, 1997.

The incident all centred around a car that Corbally apparently sold.

Seamus Behan, from Edenmore Park, Coolock, was shot seven times with the replica Ingrams when he arrived at Drumfinn Avenue, Ballyfermot, demanding money back for the faulty car he had bought from Paddy.

Corbally refused to hand it over before Mr Behan stepped forward and threatened him.

Paddy called on both his sons, who were upstairs, to come to his aid.

They came down and Kenneth opened fire on Mr Behan, shooting him seven times. Miraculously, he survived.

His other son Paul joined the attack using an iron bar.

The brothers fled the country to evade arrest.

Arriving in Manchester, they teamed up with the mobster Seanie Comerford’s crime gang, graduating into big-time heroin dealing.

Back home, the judge in their father’s case said he took the words “with intent to endanger life” as tantamount to saying “with the intention to kill”.

Mr Behan ran off when the gun was produced and was followed by Kenny.

A witness saw them struggle before Mr Behan fell to the ground. He heard Corbally tell Kenny “to give him another one”.

The court was told that, despite being unemployed, Corbally snr had an affluent lifestyle.

Like his two sons he was on the dole, but they had two new pick-up trucks and a new car at their house.

Drug dealers Paul (35) and Kenneth Corbally (32), were shot dead in their Lexus car as a result of a series of rows between them and a Dublin gangland figure from Ballyfermot, west Dublin.

Gardai believe the contract was placed on their heads after the non-fatal stabbing and beating of an associate of the gangster. The brothers were also linked to a pub row in September last year, resulting in the death of Jason Martin.