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The cannabis was discovered in a car in Limerick
A 54-year-old man and a 40-year-old woman were arrested yesterday after Gardai stopped a car in Limerick and found €100,000 worth of cannabis.


They stopped the vehicle at Davin Gardens in Caherdavin and, upon inspection, discovered the haul.

They are being held at Mayorstone and Roxboro Garda Stations under the Criminal Justice Drug Trafficking Act.

Johnathon Gill has made quiet a few appearances in the papers over there going back before Alan Ryan's death. It'll be interesting to see how his situation plays out with the new youngbloods taking over from fat freddie, especially Lynch.

Hi Terrence.
Young Mr.Gill has been lying low, he is in for a lot of grief soon enough with all the people he is pissing off, his two hitmen "the Taliban Brothers" have gone on the run, probably back to Libya, and funny enough their sister was involved in a modelling contest recently, lots of mentions of her lovely brother but nothing about the murderous scum that are her other two brothers.
Michael Frazier seems to be enemy no.1 at the moment, surviving his fourth attack this weekend.

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Stabbed: Tiernan Stokes was hospitalised after the attack on Halloween night


A CONVICTED criminal who was shot in the legs in a public park in Bray in August has been stabbed in another horror attack.

Tiernan Stokes (24) suffered wounds to his legs after he was shot in broad daylight in front of children in the People's Park in Bray, Co Wicklow during the summer. Gardai believe that he fell foul of a Bray-based mob who control large portions of the drugs trade in Co Wicklow.

However, Stokes has now narrowly escaped with his life for a second time after he was knifed four times in a park in the Oldcourt Estate in Bray on Halloween Night.

Writing on his Facebook page, Stokes claimed he was, literally, stabbed in the back.

“On the mend. 7 lives left. haha scumbag stabbing me from behind and on crutches an all sad c**t.

“Be home soon.”

He wrote yesterday that he was "out the hospital" and "feelin alri [sic]."

Stokes sustained wounds to his kidneys, lungs and liver in the attack. It is believed that he was involved in a verbal row earlier in the night at a bonfire. He has a number of previous convictions, including at least one for assault, and four thefts.

In August, he was shot in daylight on open ground in the park where families were walking with their children and a local football team were preparing to play.



Speaking to the Sunday World following the incident, Stokes said one of his legs was broken as a result of the attack.

“It happened that fast I didn't have time to get a fright. I thought it was pellet gun. Basically man, [I] went to meet someone then bang, bang.

He added: “I have a broken left leg and the right is clean shot [through].”

Stokes is originally from Oldcourt Avenue in Bray but had been living in Drimnagh in the south city after being released from prison in July after serving a sentence for theft.

However, he rubbished speculation he was targeted by criminals from the south-inner city.

“I've no connections to Drimnagh, I only lived there for few weeks but I knew nobody - so that's b**lix.”

Stokes refused to comment on who he believed was behind the shooting saying: “I've nothing else to say.”

Gardai believe the Bray-based gang which was previously lead by convicted drug trafficker Brendan Kinlan was behind the shooting. Kinlan (42) is currently serving an eight year prison sentence in the UK after he was caught with €2 million worth of amphetamines.

The Bray mob are regarded as extremely dangerous and are believed to have been involved in the murder of Philip 'Philly' O'Toole in January 2013. Gardai believe Stokes was shot as a result of a dispute over a small debt.

Last year, gang boss Kinlan was sentenced to eight years in prison in Leeds Crown Court after he was caught with a €2 million drugs haul.

Bizarrely, the massive stash of designer drugs was only discovered after Kinlan had crashed his van as he swerved to avoid hitting a pheasant which had ran out on the road.

When police came to the crash scene they realised Kinlan wasn't the registered owner of the van and impounded the vehicle. After the van was towed to a garage in West Yorkshire, Kinlan continually called asking staff to return of his property in the back of the van.

During the trial, the court heard that Kinlan's persistence led to garage staff becoming suspicious and discovering the stash.

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Cocaine seizure

A multimillion-pound haul of cocaine destined for the UK market has been intercepted by police in an international drugs bust.

Two men from Jersey have been arrested after their yacht was boarded by officers in the Caribbean as it made its way to the UK.

On board, they discovered around 550lb of the Class A drug - estimated to have a street value of up to £40 million (€51m). It followed an investigation involving the Metropolitan Police, their French counterparts and officials from the National Crime Agency (NCA).

Hank Cole, the NCA's head of international operations, said: "Together we have stopped a huge consignment of cocaine close to source.

"We have no doubt that without this intervention the drugs would have ended up on the streets of the UK where, after being cut, they would have had a likely potential value of £30-40 million.

"Our investigation into the organised crime network involved in this attempt continues."

The UK-registered vessel SY Hygeia of Halsa was boarded by French customs off the island of Martinique on Monday as it began a transatlantic crossing.

Two men - aged 57 and 42 - were arrested and now face possible prosecution by the French authorities.

The operation followed an investigation by the Met and NCA into a London-based organised crime group, with connections to the Caribbean, suspected of being involved in the large-scale importation of class A drugs.

Detective Superintendent Neil Thompson said: "It is clear that the drugs recovered would have been distributed throughout the streets of London and beyond, generating further criminality and fuelling gang activity.

"If you deal in drugs in any scale we will find you, we will arrest you, and you will face the consequences of your actions."

This is the second significant seizure of Class A drugs on a sailing vessel destined for the UK in recent weeks.

Two months ago, around a tonne of cocaine was seized by the Irish Naval Service acting on information supplied by the NCA.

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No escape: Niall Fitzpatrick was convicted over the botched robbery

A NOTORIOUS criminal who is part of Munster’s most-prolific armed robbery crew has been convicted in connection with a raid on a businessman’s home which was foiled by armed gardai.

Niall ‘Houdini’ Fitzpatrick (47), was found guilty of attempted burglary and attempted aggravated burglary on businessman Pat Glavin’s Glanmire home on August 11 last year. The incident was described as a “meticulously planned raid” in court.

However, the gang were foiled by gardai who were lying in wait at the home for them to strike after receiving intelligence about the raid. As the gang were about to enter the home, gardai threw a stun grenade at their feet, disorientating them with dazzling light and loud bangs.

Fitzpatrick was previously described by gardai as one of the most notorious and dangerous armed robbers in Cork. The well-known criminal, from Mayfield, Cork, was nicknamed Houdini after escaping from custody on three separate occasions.

His associates Trevor O’Sullivan (below) and Vincent Murray were convicted earlier this year as part of the raid.



During the incident, O’Sullivan fell as he tried to run away and was arrested. His accomplice Vincent Murray (38), tried to escape, but was located by the garda helicopter.

Gardai suspect Fitzpatrick and O’Sullivan were part of the crew who escaped with €140,000 following a robbery of a cash-in-transit van in Carriagline in January 2012.

Fitzpatrick was also involved in a raid on a Bank of Ireland in August 2011, and a raid on Farran Post Office in 2001 when a gun was held to the head of an employee.

Two years ago, the Sunday World had linked him to a string of armed robberies which gardai suspected he carried out after his release from prison.

His mother contacted us and demanded that we stopped writing about her son. She claimed he had given up crime and berated us for harassing him. She also gave out about gardai following him around.

However, her belief that her son had gone straight was shattered when he was arrested and charged in connection with the Glanmire incident. Fitapatrick is due to be sentenced later this month. His pals O’Sullivan and Murray are already serving lengthy sentences for their part in the crime.

Judge Sean Ó Donnabháin sentenced O’Sullivan, from Curaheen Drive to 15 years with three years suspended. He sentenced Murray, from Glandore Park, Knocknaheeny, to 10 years with three years suspended.

He said he gave O’Sullivan the longer sentence because of the high degree of planning which he put into the crime. He said it was hard “to imagine the terror and the upset” Mr Glavin and his partner, Esther Delaney and their two daughters, aged 12 and nine, endured when gardai told them they were targets of the gang.

He added: “To expose a citizen to this risk from gangsters should not be tolerated.”

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Raid: The premise was raided by members of the Garda National Drug Unit and the Criminal Assets Bureau
A major Irish drug dealer was yesterday arrested by Gardai after an investigation into sales on an encrypted layer of the internet known as the Darknet.

As a result of an international drug trafficking investigation into sales on the Darknet, a number of dealers were identified operating out of Dublin city.

Following an extensive investigation by the Garda National Drug Unit, detectives identified a secure premises on the South Circular Road, where it was believed this drug distribution operation was based.

Yesterday afternoon members from the Garda National Drug Unit, the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB)and the Computer Crime Investigation Unit (CCIU) raided the premise in Dublin 8.

They discovered ecstasy, LSD and other narcotics worth nearly €200,000.

Two men in their 30s were arrested at the scene. They are being detained at Kevin Street and Kilmainham Garda stations under Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act, 1996.

Gardai said one of the men arrested is a major figure in the distribution of drugs around Ireland.

Gardai said a crucial part of the raid was the preservation of encrypted data contained on computers. Detectives said a number of computers seized contain extensive information which related to the worldwide distribution of controlled drugs from this premises in Dublin 8.

"With the invaluable assistance of the CAB and CCIU a number of computers were safely retrieved with accessible information immediately at the time of entry on this search," Gardai said.

"At this time analysis is continuing with regard to storage of electro currency (Bitcoin) and CAB have already seized certain currency assets."

In a follow up operation, Gardai seized more drugs and documents that related to offshore bank accounts

"A follow up search in Harolds Cross, Dublin 6 resulted in further small seizure of controlled drugs and documentation in relation to off shore bank accounts in Switzerland, Belize, Poland and a number of other countries.

"The financial investigation in relation to this investigation is continuing with new information still coming to light at this time."

Yesterday's arrest was the result of an international operation codenamed Onymous that involved the FBI and Europol to disrupt the sale of illegal narcotics on the Darknet.

"The fact that such a significant vendor has been arrested in the presence of an encrypted but open computer with address lists for customers all over the world will be of significant interest to many global law enforcement agencies who specialise in Darknet investigations," Gardai said.

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Mountjoy prison officers seized a substantial amount of homemade alcohol or hooch, along with various other contraband items.

The jail’s operational support group uncovered the 60 litres of hooch fermenting behind radiators in cells and common areas of C wing yesterday.

Heroin, cannabis and 14 phones were also uncovered in the operation which was directed by intelligence gathered by prison staff.

All cells in C Wing are single occupancy, meaning the prisoners cannot deny owning the contraband items.

Prison officers say that the search got underway at 7am yesterday and that the inmates caught red handed will be internally disciplined within the jail.

As well as the 60 litres of hooch, officers seized: 14 mobile phones, 19.5g of cannabis resin, 19g of herbal cannabis, 6 sim cards, 11 chargers, 21.5 g of heroin and 421 assorted tablets.

Prison hooch is simple to make using fruits or fruit juices, sugar and bread; the concoction is usually brewed in plastic bags or cups.

The haul is the biggest since 30 mobile phones, modems and a number of USB keys were seized in Portlaoise Prison in August.

Great posts Don Omega. With all of the irishmen roaming the streets for each others blood this guy is still somehow alive. I've read that Gerard "Hatchet" Kavanaugh was shot about 2 months back as well. I would have to assume Lynch will be leaving the country soon after taking a bullet to the face and seeing one (of few) of his top enforcers gunned down.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...ce-believe.html

I'm sure this is old news to you but I've been really getting into the gangland news over there. I just can't believe 99% of this stuff doesn't even come close to national coverage based on the murder rate alone. An ever booming cocaine and heroin trade with ecstacy, cannibas, prescription drugs, amphetamine pandering to the masses and all on top of that prostitution and cigarette smuggling for those who want to appear to be above board. There is so much money and so many people looking to get their hands on it. It is going to be bloody new year.

thanks terence,

i started putting this stuff, as the guys on forum , were putting up all the mafia stuff, that im always reading about,

The reports in the paper, have suggested that Greg lynch has taken on the hit on Michael Frazer, as a peace deal with Freddie Thompsons gang.
So Lynch hasn't gone away, I wonder how much longer he can dodge the bullets?
Also with charges coming up for a few to the top dogs, Thompson, Gill, Paschal Kelly, et all, the fight for the top spots could be a bloody one.

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A father-of-one who was jailed in Dubai for drugs possession has been jailed for three years for transporting €21,000 of cocaine at Dublin Airport by swallowing the drugs. internally

Lucky Osaseyi (36) served three years of a ten year sentence for the drugs offence in The United Arab Emirates, but was deported back to Ireland in 2011 because of his serious medical condition.

Osaseyi, of Ashford Place, Dublin 7, told gardai he had swallowed 23 plastic wrapped cocaine pellets because he needed the money. He had been put in touch with a person through a friend and had expected to get €980.

He pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to possessing 304g of cocaine worth €21,284 at Terminal 1, Dublin Airport on April 28, 2013. He has 11 previous minor convictions from Ireland and one for from Dubai.

Judge Patricia Ryan suspended the last two years of a five year prison sentence on condition that he keep the peace for three years after his release.

Garda Niall Miller told John Quirke BL, prosecuting, that Osaseyi admitted swallowing the drugs the previous morning before he got on a flight from Cameroon through Paris.

He initially claimed to customs officials his trip to Cameroon had been to purchase African food. He then admitted his offence and said he felt unwell and he had to be taken to hospital.

The garda agreed with Gerardine Small BL, defending, that her client’s early guilty plea and full co-operation had been beneficial as there could have been a legal issue had the case gone to trial.

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A GLAMOROUS gangster’s moll who was jailed for transporting a handgun for crime lord Patrick Irwin has set up a new business as a dressmaker and stylist.



Blonde Deirdre Moran (29) has set up the company since her release from prison during the summer and is selling her creations on social media websites.

The pretty mother of one served a five-year sentence in Mountjoy’s female wing for collecting a gun for ex-lover Irwin from an associate of Eamon ‘the Don’ Dunne.

Irwin had a string of lovers in Sligo and Moran was one of his two ‘main girlfriends’.

However, Moran has now put her life of crime behind her, going straight and opening up a thriving business. These images show the pretty ex-jailbird modelling her
creations, which are available for sale on Facebook.

The page, called ‘Dee Moran Dressmaking and Styling’, was set up last week and already has hundreds of fans.

It reads: “Dee Moran is a freelance fashion dressmaker both designing my own clothes and personal dressmaking for clients also giving any styling advice.”



The page has been liked by a number of ex-cons who Moran met during her time behind bars – including Michelle Bambrick and Kiera McCormack.
Sting

In 2009, heroin addict McCormack (25) was given a suspended sentence for her role in a so-called ‘honey trap’ sting in Cork city.

She lured a man into a city centre car park with the promise of sex so he could be robbed by her bottle-wielding accomplice.

At the time of her conviction, McCormack was already serving a four-year sentence for an unrelated offence of assault causing harm.

In 2010, Michelle Bambrick was jailed for three years for her role in possessing €300,000 of drugs, which she kept under a secret panel in her bedroom press.

Both McCormack and Bambrick became friends with Moran when they shared a ‘house’ in Mountjoy jail.

During her trial, Moran claimed she had travelled 124 miles to Liffey Valley Shopping Centre, Dublin, from Sligo to buy a jumper for her son, as shops in her own town had sold out.

However, gardai told the court that they had “very specific” information about the collection of the gun and that it related to a former partner of Ms Moran, who gardai had significant interest in.

Detective Garda Paul Keane said that a surveillance operation was set up in west Dublin near the Liffey Valley Shopping Centre.

He said that after receiving information that Ms Moran, who was driving a black Opel Corsa, had the gun, gardai pulled her over as she drove on the M4.

Det Garda Keane said Ms Moran was observed driving into the Liffey Valley

Shopping Centre car park at around 12.30pm before going into the shopping centre for an hour. She returned to her car and was observed on her telephone appearing to look for another vehicle.

A Toyota Dyna van and Ms Moran drove in convoy to nearby Ballyfermot, where they pulled into a tyre depot.

The driver of the van made contact with Ms Moran and she then turned her vehicle around and drove towards the M4.
She was intercepted by gardai in an unmarked car and was pulled over.

A search was conducted on the car and a silver revolver was found in a sock underneath the front passenger seat.

Moran’s ex-lover Patrick Irwin (33) is the head of a Sligo-based drugs gang.


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In 2011, Irwin, from St Joseph’s Terrace, Sligo, was jailed for seven years after he was caught with €67,000 of cocaine.

In June 2013, Irwin was also given a further three years in prison for breaking a garda’s jaw.

CIRA, RIRA and ETA only non-islamic terror groups on America’s threat list


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The Continuity IRA and the Real IRA are two of only three non-Islamic terrorist organisations who have been designated as a threat to the United States.

The CIRA were re-confirmed by US Secretary of State John Kerry in recent months as maintaining their threat to US security, while the RIRA were re-entered in 2013.

The paramilitary dissidents are named amid a list largely made up of the most dangerous Islamic terrorists in the world, which includes Boko Haram, the Taliban and branches of Al Qaeda.

In fact, the CIRA and Real IRA are the only Western European groups who have been deemed a threat to US security, except for ETA – a terror group fighting for control of the Basque region in Spain.

Based upon a review of the record of groups which are red alert in the US, the Secretary of

State signed an order last April re-confirming that the CIRA were still a huge threat.

The CIRA were first designated on the US terror list in 2004, and again after the shooting dead of PSNI Constable Stephen Carroll in 2009.

He had responded to a 999 call and was the first police officer to be killed since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement.

He was killed two days after the Real IRA shooting of two British soldiers outside Massereene Barracks in Antrim.

The Continuity IRA, which rejects the peace process in Northern Ireland, have recently split into two groupings, one in Limerick and the other in Dublin

In 2011, Liam Kenny, was murdered at his Clondalkin home, allegedly by drug dealers, and in retaliation for his death, the Limerick-based Continuity IRA embarked upon a campaign which showed just how fanatical they are.

The brutal murder of an innocent delivery man David Darcy resulted in the trial of Rose Lynch at the Special Criminal Court. She is a daughter of Republican hardliner ‘Tiny’ Joe Lynch.

During her trial, the court heard that Darcy was on a chilling list of six men that Rose Lynch had planned to assassinate in retaliation for Kenny’s murder.

But CIRA intelligence had got it wrong about Darcy, who was in fact a hard-working man who only came to their attention because his delivery route often took him to Limerick.

The Sunday World revealed after she was jailed that Lynch went to jail staunchly refusing to name her former lover Dermot Gannon as her co-assassin. He is serving a sentence on gun charges.

Interesting, "designated as threats to the US". In what way is CIRA or RIRA a threat to the US?

How prevalent was American funding of the Irish Republican Army?



The Discreet Charm of the Terrorist Cause


Since the bombing attacks in London last month, a welter of columnists, writers, talking heads and ordinary people have puzzled over the mystery of British Muslims, one in four of whom recently told pollsters that they sympathize with the July 7 suicide bombers.

The idea that British Muslims, whose parents received asylum, found jobs, and made lives in Britain, could be so deeply affected by the "oppression" of Muslims in countries they have never visited seems incomprehensible. The notion that events in distant deserts should lead the middle-class inhabitants of London or Leeds to admire terrorists seems inexplicable. But why should this phenomenon be so incomprehensible or inexplicable, at least to Americans? We did, after all, once tolerate a similar phenomenon ourselves.

I am talking about the sympathy for the Irish Republican Army that persisted for decades in some Irish American communities and is only now fading away. Like British Muslim support for Muslim extremist terrorism, Irish American support for Irish terrorism came in many forms. There were Irish Americans who waved the Irish flag once a year on St. Patrick's Day and admired the IRA's cause but felt queasy about the methods. There were Irish Americans who collected money for Catholic charities in Northern Ireland without condoning the IRA at all. There were also Irish Americans who, while claiming to be "aiding the families of political prisoners," were in fact helping to arm IRA terrorists. Throughout the 1970s, until Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher asked President Ronald Reagan to stop them, they were the IRA's primary source of funding. And even after that they were widely tolerated.

I concede there is one major difference: The Irish terrorists were setting off their bombs across the ocean and not in New York or Boston, which somehow made the whole thing seem less real. But in Britain the explosions were real enough. In 1982 -- the year an IRA bomb killed eight people in Hyde Park -- four IRA men were arrested in New York after trying to buy surface-to-air missiles from an FBI agent. In 1984 -- the year the IRA tried to kill the whole British cabinet in Brighton -- an IRA plot to smuggle seven tons of explosives was foiled, an action that led to the arrests of several Americans. As recently as 1999, long after the IRA had declared its cease-fire, members of an IRA group connected to an American organization, the Irish Northern Aid Committee (Noraid), were arrested for gun-running in Florida.

The range of Americans who were unbothered by this sort of thing was surprisingly wide. Some were members of Congress, such as Republican Rep. Peter King of Long Island, who stayed with IRA supporters on visits to Northern Ireland and drank at a Belfast club called the Felons, whose members were all IRA ex-cons. Some were born in Ireland, such as Michael Flannery, Noraid's founder, who once said that "the more British soldiers sent home from Ulster in coffins, the better," and whose flattering obituary in 1995 described him as a man who "treated everyone he met with gentle respect." Some were Americans of Irish descent, such as Tom McBride, a businessman who is still the chairman of the Hartford chapter of Noraid, and who still refuses to condemn IRA terrorism. "I think they are protecting a segment of the population that needs to be protected," he told me over the phone.

Nor were these opinions irrelevant. The Irish journalist Conor O'Clery, who has followed Irish-American relations for more than a decade, says the IRA has "always looked to the diaspora for moral backing" as well as money. That meant that when, in the 1990s, prominent Irish Americans began to advocate "constitutional nationalism" (meaning the political process) instead of "armed struggle" (meaning terrorism), the views of many in Northern Ireland shifted, too. The IRA's announcement last week that it would finally abandon armed struggle was at least partly the result of a decade of Irish American pressure. Which means, of course, that if Irish American pressure had been applied much earlier, the whole thing might have been over long ago.

My point here isn't really about Northern Irish politics, however, but about the extraordinarily powerful appeal of foreign, "revolutionary," "idealistic" violence to the inhabitants of otherwise peaceful societies. You don't have to be Muslim, or poor, or an extremist, to feel the romantic pull of terrorism. You can be a middle-class American and a lapsed Catholic whose grandmother happened to come from Donegal.

But the appeal of foreign violence can also be destroyed, or at least reduced, if community leaders agree that they want that to happen. If British Muslims deploy every one of their religious, civic and business institutions, they may, over time, be able to eliminate the climate of tolerance that made the London bombings possible, just as Irish Americans -- as well as Rep. King, who has now called on the IRA to disband -- eventually helped eliminate the climate of tolerance around the IRA. And if they don't -- there will always be recruits willing to die for a glamorous foreign cause.

August 3, 2005

I haven't heard of the peace deal. Great pull Lugs. That is very good question. Even the luckiest ones seem to run out of lives after about 4 or 5 attempts but even the greats get a shot of lead where it counts eventually. I don't see this guy lasting long even with the peace deal, but that's just my thought on it. Quite a few regime changes in prominent areas for these top spots though so I definitely agree on further bloodshed with those individuals being involved.

There was also a substantial seizure of firearms today in the East Wall are of the inner city with 1 man arrested.
It is being said that the guns and the suspect are all linked with a paramilitary group in the north inner city of Dublin.

Another couple of arrests ion the north side linked with the funds of the last few days.
The kinahan a were back in dublin last night for a boxing match, rumours and talk of a meeting with major limerick gang Keane/collopy. It was even said that The Dapper Don himself was here. Daniel and Christy jnr were photographed at the weigh in, but there hasn't been any pics of Christy snr in the press so far.
Things are getting interesting, with the Dundons all gone limerick has been very quiet, that could all change soon.

Another couple of arrests on the north side linked with the funds of the last few days.
The Kinahans were back in dublin last night for a boxing match, rumours and talk of a meeting with major limerick gang Keane/collopy. It was even said that The Dapper Don himself was here. Daniel and Christy jnr were photographed at the weigh in, but there hasn't been any pics of Christy snr in the press so far.
Things are getting interesting, with the Dundons all gone limerick has been very quiet, that could all change soon.

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Killer Costello throws prison party for friends and family weeks after being caught with mobile phone behind bars.


Scumbag: Killer Christopher Costello murdered gang boss Kieran Keane
Scumbag: Killer Christopher Costello murdered gang boss Kieran Keane
MURDER Inc killer Christopher ‘Smokey’ Costello enjoyed a jail-house family party, just weeks after being caught red-handed with a mobile phone.

He was joined this week by 14 family members – including adults and children – for the gathering in a visitors’ room reserved for privileged prisoners at the Midlands Prison.

The so-called ‘enhanced’ room was available to Costello even though he is currently serving punishment for possessing a mobile phone, according to sources. Inmates and jailers are furious over what they see as kid-glove treatment for the notorious Limerick mobster, according to one Sunday World source.

It is claimed that the prison tuck-shop was even asked to organise a Black Forest Gateau for the gathering. Sources also claim that some of Costello’s visitors have been previously refused entry, after failing to get past screening procedures.

“It seems like the Limerick boys can get whatever they want and they don’t have to worry about getting into trouble,” claimed one source.

Such visits are sometimes allowed in the event of special family occasions, or if senior staff or medical officers believe it can help troubled inmates.

Costello has been a disruptive prisoner since being jailed for life for the 2003 murder of Kieran Keane (below).


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In 2010, Smokey was also caught with a mobile phone. Along with Anthony ‘Noddy’ McCarthy, Costello has been involved in threats against jail staff and provoking unrest.

The most infamous incident came when a jailer in Wheatfield Prison refused to open a gate for the thug in 2008. The gangster’s response was: “F**k you, you’re dead.”

Not long afterwards, as the officer pulled up in his car at a set of traffic lights, a black BWW SUV pulled up beside him. The windows slid down and two guns were pointed in his direction.

Members of the McCarthy-Dundon faction have also been heavily involved in running drug smuggling while behind bars. At one point, more than 80 inmates were identified as being part of the faction before it began to implode.

Like Smokey, three of the four Dundon brothers involved in crime are now serving life sentences. Costello was jailed for life along with four others, including John Dundon, in 2003 for luring rival gangster Kieran Keane to his death.

The trial judge warned at the time that the men would likely stay behind bars so long as the underworld feuding continued in Limerick. And recent seizures in Mountjoy have raised fears that prison gangs are back on the rise.

Ten days ago jailers found 60 litres of homemade booze and 14 mobile phones. They seized €3,000 of heroin, 400 prescription tablets, 19 grams of skunk-weed, and five makeshift knifes known as ‘shivs’.

REVEALED: The INLA gun thug who whipped up mob that held Burton's car


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A TERRORIST gun thug whipped up the mob that held Tanaiste Joan Burton trapped in her car as an anti-water protest spiralled out of control.

Pictures and video obtained by the Sunday World today prove that dangerous dissidents hijacked the peaceful people’s protests against the charges.

As Gardai step up armed protection around the Cabinet in the wake of a chilling threat to shoot Enviroment Minister Alan Kelly, we can reveal that convicted INLA supporter Thomas Kelly was at the centre of the protest that turned ugly last week.

The thug has a conviction for supplying a deadly Glock pistol to a notorious INLA killer

An Albanian chef who agreed to hold €87,000 of cocaine and cannabis to offset a drug debt has avoided jail after receiving a six year suspended jail sentence.

Gardai caught Emil Duro (28) when they spotted him running with a white bag away from two males in Dublin city centre.

Garda Brian Peters said he and colleagues found €67,000 of cocaine in the white bag and a further €20,000 of cannabis behind the boiler in Duro’s home.

Duro pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to possessing the cocaine at Gardner Street Lower and the cannabis at his Bertram Court home on Francis Street on May 13, 2013. He has no previous convictions.

Gda Peters told Fiona Murphy BL, prosecuting, that Duro said he owed €6,000 from a drug debt he had built up in less than nine months. He said he wasn’t an addict, but he used to take a lot of cocaine.

The garda agreed with Dominic McGinn SC, defending, that his client had offered the people for whom he was holding the drugs €3,000 he had in savings but this was rejected.

Mr McGinn submitted to Judge Mary Ellen Ring that Duro has not taken drugs since his arrest in May 2013 and has been offered work in a takeaway business.

Judge Ring suspended the sentence in full on condition Duro keep the peace.

Two men convicted of possessing €3.5 million worth of cocaine and heroin have lost appeals to have their sentence reduced.

Mark Mahony (34) of Oak Court Lawn, Palmerstown, Dublin and Jason Brennan (33) of Willow Way Road Celbridge, Co Kildare had pleaded guilty to possession of €3.5 million worth of heroin and cocaine in January 2013.

They were both sentenced to 13 years imprisonment each with the final three suspended by Judge Martin Nolan at Naas Circuit Criminal Court in November of last year.

Refusing their appeal against sentence yesterday, Mr Justice Garrett Sheehan said the pair met each other in the car park of a service station in Naas on January 17 2013.

They were seen transferring a number of boxes to Mahony's car. Both men were spotted, stopped and arrested as they tried to leave the car park, Mr Justice Sheehan said.



Mark Mahony

The value of the drugs was €3.5 million - €488,761 worth of cocaine and just over €3.1 million worth of heroin. The judge said both men were appealing their sentence on grounds that they were excessive and oppressive and insufficient weight was given to mitigating factors.

Counsel for Mahony, Seán Gillane SC, said the movement of the drugs was from one car to another and his client's engagement “on a temporal level was for a matter of minutes”.

Mr Justice Sheehan said Mahony had no previous convictions and had worked tirelessly from the age of 15, when he left school to work as a metal fabricator.

In 2005, he was involved in a relationship and together they purchased a house. Some years later, the relationship broke down and Mahony, who had taken sole responsibility for the mortgage repayments, found himself without a job.

He tried to self harm, Mr Justice Sheehan said, and on one occasion had taken an overdose of sleeping tablets. Mahony had engaged with the Samaritans and was held in high regard by officers in charge at Cloverhill prison. A urine sample at sentencing confirmed that he was drug free.

Mr Justice Sheehan said Brennan had no previous convictions and had not been known previously to gardaí. Brennan had told gardaí that if he had known he was involved in he distribution of heroin he would not have involved himself because he had suffered form the drug himself.

Notwithstanding his addiction he worked his whole life. The court had evidence that he worked from 2003 to 2012 with the same firm and his employers described him as a popular and hardworking employee.

At the time of sentencing he had been in a relationship for twelve years and had a seven-year-old daughter.

Counsel for both men submitted that there were specific and exceptional circumstances that would justify the court going below the minimum sentence.

The Court of Appeal noted the significant rehabilitation steps taken by both men. These matters were before the sentencing judge and were taken into account by him. Mr Justice Sheehan said the sentencing judge clearly held that the appropriate sentence was one that exceeded the 10 year minimum in respect of offences involving such quantities of drugs.

Mr Justice Sheehan said the Court of Appeal saw no reason to interfere with the sentence imposed.

Both men were returned to prison where they will serve out their sentences. They each had a number of supporters and family members in court for yesterday's appeal.

Kingpin: Gareth Quinn is believed to lead the mob
Killer: Thomas Hinchon
Killer: Thomas Hinchon

A VIOLENT crime gang has set up Ireland’s first industrial drugs factory after flying over two Chinese chemists to show them how to make ‘zimmos’ and steroids.

The gang – dubbed ‘The Krays’ – bought machinery from China, believed to be worth an estimated €500,000, to set up their Breaking Bad laboratory and have learned how to mix and press the drugs themselves.

Armed robber Gareth Quinn is believed to head up the west Dublin gang, who are also believed to be responsible for flying a helicopter drone into a high-security jail to drop off a consignment of drugs.

Quinn’s mob have been left reeling since their operation was shut down just a few months ago. They had set up a complex distribution network and even developed packaging before the premises was busted in July, in what is the first major wholesaling plant of its kind discovered in the country.

A month earlier they were believed to be behind a daring plot to get drugs, including zimmos, into Wheatfield Prison using a high-tech drone which was fitted out with a goPro camera. It is understood that the gang had spent €2,000 on the drone and another €4,500 to fit it out so it could carry the consignment of drugs – destined for Quinn’s brother Ian, a 33-year-old armed robber.

Gareth Quinn is believed to head up the gang, along with two brothers from Ronanstown in Clondalkin, who were previously nicknamed ‘The Kray Twins’ by caged killer Thomas Hinchon, who worked with them during his reign of terror.

One of the brothers is before the courts on heroin charges and cannot be named. The pair, who have pet dogs called Reggie and Ronnie, are known for their violence and have tight links with the IRA. They were schooled in armed robbery and enforcement by a senior republican figure who was also said to have mentored the notorious Wilson brothers, Eric, Keith and John.


Another man arrested during the operation was Barry Donnelly (37), from Tallaght. In 2011, both he and Quinn were charged with possession of cannabis for sale or supply after a grow-house was busted in Manor Kilbride, Co. Wicklow. At the time, the Garda National Drugs Unit searched a house and seized 170 cannabis plants and two pill machines.

However, in recent months the gang are believed to have moved their operation up a level and officers were amazed with what they found after they burst into a lock-up in Crumlin last July. Gardai from the National Drugs Unit thought they had discovered an ecstasy unit, but were stunned to discover a laboratory which had been pumping out the street drugs and wholesaleing batches of body-building steroids.

Gardai seized machinery, chemical components and up to 50,000 tablets in a series of raids and arrested four known criminals and one of their girlfriends. The gang’s operation was so advanced that it is understood they produced the tablets themselves, having flown in Chinese experts to teach them how to mix the complex Zopiclone, which is sold on the streets as zimmos.

Gardai are now working closely with the Irish Medicines Board as they prepare a file for the DPP, as the substances are not strictly banned in Ireland. However, sources say they are confident that they will be bringing charges against the mob.

Gareth Quinn is a well-known criminal. In 2001, he was one of four men charged in connection with an attempted bank raid in Abbeyleix, Co. Laois, that ended in the death of a detective. He was charged with being a passenger in a stolen car in relation to the incident in which Detective Sergeant John Eiffe was shot dead when police opened fire during the bank raid.

At the time of the trial he fled the country, but in 2004 he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to rob the AIB banks and allowing himself to be carried in the stolen car. At the time, then Chief Superintendent Noel White, of the National Bureau of Criminal Investigations told the court that the amount of money the gang could have got away with would have been “in the millions”.

He had handed himself over to gardai after his fellow conspirators, including Kinahan enforcer Kevin Lynch, were sentenced to 10 years each by Portlaoise Circuit Criminal Court. He was handed a seven-year sentence, but the last two years were suspended.

Quinn’s operation was busted after armed detectives raided the lock-up at Crumlin and later a premises at an industrial estate at Greenhills Road in Tallaght. It was at the lock-up that they believed they had discovered an ecstasy tablet factory and took possession of pill-making machines.

Five separate police raids followed in Tallaght and Clondalkin and the gang were arrested.

A FORMER IRA member suspected of involvement in the murder of ‘the General’ Martin Cahill is on a list of suspected republican paedophiles which has been handed over to gardai.

The man, who was also involved in a number of other high-profile IRA operations, is one of nine men on a list given to gardai by Fine Gael TD Regina Doherty. The list contains details of men who were moved to the Republic after IRA bosses became aware of sexual abuse allegations against them in the North.

Ms Doherty (below) made an official statement to gardai last Friday week detailing the nine cases where the IRA are said to have “facilitated” abusers in the organisation to move from the North to the Republic.

She received the information from a source with detailed knowledge of the IRA and the alleged abuse cases. The information passed on to gardai included names, dates and locations north and south of the border.

The abuse is said to have occurred in locations across Northern Ireland including Belfast, Lurgan, and Bangor, while the alleged abusers were moved to Dublin, Louth and Donegal. The cases span from the 1980s to the 2000s.

One of the men included on the list is believed to have been involved in the murder of notorious gangster Cahill, who was shot dead by the IRA in 1994. The man, who is originally from Fermanagh, is believed to have driven the hitman to the murder on a motorbike.



He was involved in a number of other high-profile IRA operations which we cannot detail as it would identify him. It is alleged he raped a 14-year-old girl in the North and was subsequently moved to the south after the allegations were brought to the IRA.

Meanwhile, the Sunday World has learnt a number of other well-known republican figures have been linked to sex attacks.

One well-known figure is suspected of raping a woman in Dublin in the 1980s. The man had been cheating on his wife with the woman. She told gardai that he beat her severely before raping her.

The woman spoke to detectives in detail about the matter, but did not make a formal complaint as she feared the man would have her killed.

“She said he would have her shot if he knew she had spoken to gardai,” said a source. “He was never even brought in for questioning.”

The man was heavily involved in the anti-drugs marches in the capital in the 1980s. Another well-known Sinn Fein member is suspected of raping his partner’s daughter over a decade ago. The mother of the girl spoke to gardai, but once again did not press ahead with the matter.

It is understood the suspected paedophile was given a punishment beating by IRA members who were made aware of the rapes.

A source said: “He was given a hiding, but that was the end of it. The girl’s mother wanted him charged, but because of the republican links she didn’t press ahead.”

The controversy over IRA sex abuse was sparked by Belfast woman Mairia Cahill, who went public over abuse she suffered at the hands of a senior IRA figure when she was a teenager.

Meanwhile, a major inquiry has found paramilitaries were involved in the sexual exploitation of children across Northern Ireland. The Marshall inquiry received “powerful and persuasive” evidence that paramilitaries sexually abused young people

The High Court in Dublin has for the second time began hearing the extradition case of a man wanted by the US on terrorism charges.

Earlier this month Ali Charaf Damache (49), an Algerian-born Irish citizen, won an appeal at the Supreme Court for a judicial review of the DPP’s decision not to prosecute him in Ireland.

The Supreme Court also indicated the case should proceed before a judge other than Mr Justice John Edwards who previously heard the extradition case and had refused leave for judicial review.

Today Mr Damache appeared before the High Court where the recently appointed judge Ms Justice Aileen Donnelly began hearing his case.

Mr Damache, previously with an address in Waterford, is wanted by the US authorities in connection with an alleged conspiracy to provide support to terrorists.

If convicted in the US, he could face up to 45 years in jail, a term his lawyers say would be “a lot more” than could be imposed here.

After the DPP decided in March 2011 not to prosecute him in Ireland, the US sought his extradition in 2012. He has been in custody since, pending the outcome of the extraction matter.

He won the appeal at the Supreme Court against the High Court’s refusal of permission for a judicial review of the decision not to prosecute him here.

The five-judge court unanimously ruled Mr Damache was entitled to judicial review of two issues: whether the DPP’s March 2011 refusal to prosecute him here is reviewable in the circumstances of his case; and was the DPP entitled, in the circumstances of his case, to refuse to give reasons for her refusal.

Chief Justice Ms Justice Susan Denham stressed the court wanted all matters concerning Mr Damache, including the judicial review, extradition and constitutional issues, to proceed to hearing in the High Court as soon as possible.

The court also asked for, and obtained, the consent of the State that issues related to arguments raised by Mr Damache under the Constitution and European Convention on Human Rights should be addressed in tandem with the judicial review.

Mr Damache had twice sought judicial review of the DPP's decision not to prosecute him in Ireland for the offences, but both applications were refused by the High Court.

Last month the Irish Human Rights Commission intervened in the case.

Michael Lynn SC for the IHRC told the court that “the commission is of the view it should intervene.”

He said the Commission wanted to be in a position to make submissions on the human rights issues relating to the case.

Mr Lynn said one potential issue would be his possible detention in a Supermax prison for 40-45 years and the right to practice his Muslim faith.

Mr Damache, who has been living in Ireland for more than 10 years, is wanted on charges alleging conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists and attempted identity theft to facilitate an act of international terrorism.

The US alleges Mr Damache conspired with American woman Colleen LaRose, who used the online name Jihad Jane, and others to create a terror cell in Europe.

LaRose was sentenced last January to 10 years in prison after being convicted of planning to murder Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, who had depicted the head of the Muslim prophet Mohammad on a dog.

Don mega, some great posts, first thing Sunday morning I head for the shop to get my Sunday world just for the crime stories, it's interesting when reading so and so can't be named but when you read enough reports you know of the previous arrests and pending trials so it's easy enough to figure out who's been a bold boy, working in D1 I could tell you a few stories.
I won't go into detail but my better half isn't irish and in a bar one night and she thinks this lad is great, really nice.... Untill I told her who and what he was. Well that night turned out different to what we both had expected.

As for Damache I'd personally pay for 3 first class flights to send him and 2 of our finest to accompany him to stand trial in the U.S. Along with a few from clonskeagh, that other dickhead from ballinteer and then the other gobshite hunger striker, what do they call it... For every action there are consequences.
Don't even get me started on a certain ethnic group who play the card of "oh we are discriminated against" don't like it here? Don't contribute to society! Well then fuck off back home! (And take your accordion and trumpet with you)
Then we have our own pavee point group worse than the shimmers that lot.
Ok, ok rant over.
I needed that.