irelands soft as fuck with immigrants, any and nearly of them get the dole no problem,

a member called ABC123, posts all irish OC stuff aswell on here, dont know were he went though,hes not on as much as he used to be

No jail for man found with €100,000 worth of heroin



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A Sligo resident who along with a then 17-year-old boy was caught in possession of over €100,000 of heroin has been given a five year suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Anthony Fitzpatrick (22) originally from The Liberties in Dublin, has no previous convictions and moved to Sligo 18 months ago where he now lives with his partner and attends college.

He told gardaí on arrest that he got involved in the offence because he was under pressure to pay a drug debt arising from his cannabis addiction.

His co-accused, Daniel O’Neill (19), who is currently living in temporary accommodation with Focus Ireland, told gardaí he had paid upfront for the heroin and was making a profit of €5,000 in a fortnight.

He took full responsibility for the total of 703.98 grammes of heroin, worth €105,598, and said Fitzpatrick didn’t own the drugs.

Both O’Neill and Fitzpatrick of Teeling House Apartment, Tubbercurry, pleaded guilty to possession of the drugs for sale or supply at various locations in Dublin 8 on March 5, 2013.

Earlier this month Judge Martin Nolan sentenced O’Neill to a five year jail term which he suspended in full. He said he had come to the conclusion O’Neill’s involvement was not as serious as he had suggested.

Today Judge Mary Ellen Ring accepted that Fitzpatrick had no previous convictions while O’Neill had two previous and a probation report before the court indicated that Fitzpatrick was at the lower end of the medium range of re-offending.

She took into account the fact that he has moved away from his family and peer group in Dublin and has settled well in Sligo. She further accepted that he has not come to garda attention since the offence and has been undergoing treatment to deal with his cannabis addiction.

Judge Ring sentenced Fitzpatrick to five years in prison but suspended it in full on strict conditions including that he engage with the Probation Service for a year.

“If you get into trouble in the next five years I will have no option to put you in prison for five years,” she warned Fitzpatrick after he entered into his bond.

She also advised that if he doesn’t co-operate with the Probation Service for a year as ordered “they will be back to me like a shot” and he will have to go to jail.

Garda Paddy Martin agreed with James Dwyer BL, defending, that his client had “no trappings of wealth” and was no living in Sligo in a stable environment where he has not come to garda attention.

Mr Dwyer told Judge Ring that his client came from a large family and both his parents died when he was 13 years old. The children were separated and Fitzpatrick lived with a family friend. He remained in school and completed his leaving certificate but had to move into hostel accommodation when he was 18.

Counsel said a probation report before the court indicated that Fitzpatrick had engaged positively with the service, had expressed remorse for his role and showed insight into his offending behaviour. He is still using cannabis but is getting treatment for this.

Gda Martin told Lorcan Staines BL, prosecuting that gardaí set up a surveillance operation following a tip off.

O’Neill and Fitzpatrick were spotted on three occasions meeting other males during which gardaí suspected drugs were being exchanged.

Gardaí followed the two men to a house on North Circular Road where they stayed for an hour before leaving again in a taxi. Both Fitzpatrick and O’Neill were later stopped in this taxi and a shopping bag containing €36,390 worth of heroin was found at O’Neill’s feet.

Gda Martin said €4,000 worth of heroin was found in the teenager’s underwear in a follow-up search at the garda station.

A further search of the premises the pair had just left led to the discovery of €65,100 worth of heroin in a compartment under the kitchen sink.

O’Neill admitted in interview that all the drugs were his for sale or supply. He said he would earn about €5,000 in profit after two weeks.

O’Neill knew the monetary value of various different weights of heroin and said that he sold “five half gardens that day”.

He said the drugs had been paid for and he didn’t owe any money for them. He told gardaí he was sorry and he would stop.

Massive €4.5m cannabis haul stuffed in olive tins found at Dublin Port




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Part of the haul discovered by Customs officers at Dublin Port
The tins in which the cannabis was discovered


A massive haul of cannabis worth €4.5m stuffed into more than 1,000 tins of olives and bound for the UK has been uncovered at Dublin Port.

Customs officials seized the drugs after a profiling operation targeting cargo at the facility.

The 200 kilos of cannabis was divided into small parcels which were double vacuum packed and individually stashed in 1,050 catering tins of olives in oil.

Investigating officers believe the drugs arrived in the Irish capital from Spain and were destined for the UK.

A Revenue spokeswoman said: "Investigations are continuing here with international enquiries ongoing in Spain and the UK."

The concealment of the drugs was so sophisticated that the drug smugglers would have had to use a canning factory to stash each of the 200g waterproof parcels in the sealed tins.

The smell of the olives was enough to put a drug detection dog at Dublin Port off the scent.

Michael Gilligan, Irish Revenue's head of central investigations for tax and customs, said it was a sophisticated standard of concealment that indicated the level of the crime gang behind it.

"We've seen drugs smuggled in coffee before, but this is the first time we have have come across it in olives," he said.

"The smell of the olives was overpowering.

"The whole focus of this operation was to make sure no drug dogs would detect it."

The cargo was planned to be loaded onto another vessel bound for a UK port before the Revenue intercepted it.

The consignment only came to light when officials became suspicious after using profiling techniques on the cargo.

They looked at documentation, the route it had taken, where it was bound, the weights of the tins and compared these with previous similar cargoes.

Four pallets of the tins - which were part of a wider mixed cargo in a 40ft container on the vessel from southern Spain - were isolated and scanned using mobile x-ray technology.

Officials then had to use tin openers to confirm the contents.

Irish authorities are now working with UK and Spanish counterparts to follow a paper trail in the hope it will lead them to the organised crime gang behind the botched smuggling bid.

The cannabis will be destroyed.

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THEY are home to decent, hardworking families who are struggling to live and bring up kids.

But some of Ireland’s most troubled estates are also under siege from the twin parasites of anti-social behaviour and organised crime.

The economic boom saw criminals grow rich with cash from drug dealing, piling on the misery for the people who wanted nothing to do with them.
The recession and the lack of cash saw the tables turned on drug gangs as volunteers, community groups and local authority projects were able to make in-roads.
Yet the problems caused by anti-social behaviour, drug mobs and money lenders have left decent neighbourhoods locked in a battle to shake reputations and crime statistics they don’t deserve.


Neilstown, Dublin

This west Dublin suburb is home to thousands of honest citizens, but is also the stomping ground of a hard core of the city’s serious criminals.
At times, open drug dealing has made trips to the shops an ordeal for some people, while for years burnt-out cars were a regular feature of the landscape. One woman previously told the Sunday World how she became the target of thugs who left a burning wheelie bin at her front door.


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The Sunday World recently revealed how drug addicts flocked to an inner-city flat to buy a version of crystal meth-style drug. The drug-induced erratic behaviour is witnessed by residents and workers in the area. The area has Ireland’s most concentrated and obvious problem, with street addicts involved in drug-dealing, petty crime and violent altercations.


West Tallaght, Dublin

Home to some of the Ireland’s most prolific criminals, such as the ‘Subaru Gang’, the people living on the estates of west Tallaght have had to endure more than their fair share of anti-social behaviour. The presence of community groups and sports clubs has gone some way to cancelling the evil influence of the drug-dealing gangs.


Sheepmoor, Dublin

In the western part of Dublin, Sheepmoor has witnessed a litany of gang-related crimes including a number of murders. Drugs dealers and users have blighted the lives of people trying to get on with their daily business. It is part of the territory once ruled by the infamous Westies gang, whose ultra-violence eventually cost several lives, including those of its leaders Shane Cotes and Stephen Sugg.


Fairview Crescent, Limerick

The most expensive public housing scheme ever to be built in Limerick has been dubbed the “estate from hell” after being taken over by rampaging, gun-wielding teens.
In just five years, 20 law-abiding families have been forced to abandon their homes in the estate after being targeted by “wild” teenage gangs.


South Hill, Limerick

For years, the sprawling estate of O’Malley Park had become a byword for criminality. The ordinary people living there often had to run the gauntlet of gang-connected thugs involved in drug dealing and violent attacks.

People such as McCarthy-Dundon lieutenant Paul Crawford were barred from the estate in a bid to stop anti-social yobs from entering the area.
Community groups and volunteers have made huge in-roads in turning things around.

Moyross, Limerick

This collection of smaller estates has seen more than its fair share of violence. Pineview Gardens was where ‘Fat’ Frankie Ryan was shot and kids Millie and Gavin Murray suffered horrendous burns in a firebomb attack. There are active community groups working to help youngsters find an alternative way of life away from criminality and anti-social behaviour.


Ballincurra, Limerick

The violent Dundon brothers – Wayne, John, Ger and Dessie – did their best to turn this part of central Limerick into a no-go area.
In some cases, residents who refused to sell up property to them for less than the market value were the target of devastating arson attacks.
ballybeg, waterford
Drug gangs, feuding traveller clans and violent money lenders have given Ballybeg a reputation that the majority of residents don’t deserve.
The Sunday World recently revealed how gang violence has been specifically targeted at people working to improve the lives of people in the area.

Muirhevnamor, Dundalk

Gun and arson attacks this summer have highlighted how serious criminals have established a presence in this huge estate in Dundalk.
One gun attack this summer was a reckless and dangerous attack which could easily have cost the life of an innocent bystander. Criminals with paramilitary connections have allowed serious crime to become embedded in the region.

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Gardai have launched a round-the-clock armed checkpoint blitz in a drive to crush the burglary gangs that have been terrorising the country.

In one of the largest ever operations of its kind, armed teams, backed up by helicopter support overhead, are mounting 40 checkpoints a day on roads in the east and south-east.

The campaign is less than a week old but already gardai have made 24 arrests and seized 41 vehicles in what has been described as an "in-your-face style of policing" by senior sources.

In addition, a massive amount of intelligence on the gangs has been gathered with gardai identifying hundreds of suspects.

Last night, gardai arrested another two criminals after their stolen BMW car was stopped at an armed checkpoint in Carlow. The Herald was present at the moment the two men, one of whom is wanted by gardai in Louth for armed robbery, tried to flee when they approached the checkpoint at Leighlinbridge at 8.40pm.

When officers quizzed the driver of the 2010 BMW regarding his driving licence, he immediately drove off at speed. Armed gardai gave chase as the pursuit continued on a maze of rural roads. The stolen car was fitted with false registration plates and reached speeds of 200kmph.

Garda Liam Lawlor from Carlow traffic corps assisted by Gda Paul Hogan arrested the two men in Clara, Co Kilkenny following a terrifying 15-minute chase through Gowran, Paulstown, before it ended in Clara. The arrested men were being held in Carlow garda station last night.

The overt operation will continue to until at least Christmas with the aim of tackling burglary gangs head-on.

A core group of up to 10 family-based mobs are involved in the crime wave that has targeted vulnerable rural homes and used the country's motorway system to make rapid getaways. The gangs, who use high-powered cars that often speed away from garda vehicles, are mostly Dublin-based and are made up of Traveller or Romanian criminals.

Most of the criminals are based in the Tallaght area of southwest Dublin but some also have addresses in other parts of the capital, including Rathfarnham, Dun Laoghaire and Shankill. It is estimated that more than 300 criminals are involved in the gangs.

The armed garda officers are being dispatched to slip-roads on the motorway system as well as secondary routes both northbound and southbound to and from the Dublin area.

A vast stretch of countryside from Gorey, Co Wexford, in the east and west to Thurles, Co Tipperary, is the focus of the operation. Gardai have established key information about the structures of these gangs.

The criminals have been using their connections in towns where they have "family hubs" to gather local intelligence on burglary targets.

Among the towns identified where this issue is most prevalent are two in Tipperary and one in Wexford.

A major part of the operation is the use of spy technology involving registration-plate recognition software hooked up to a database of cars associated with the crimewave, which is known as Automatic Number Plate Recognition. If a car linked to previous burglaries or crime is spotted entering the area, gardai send out an alert to other officers in the vicinity.

"This is a massive ongoing operation in which local gardai, both in plain clothes and uniform are assisted by national units including the Organised Crime Unit and the Air Support Unit every day and night," a source told the Herald. "Customs and Revenue are also playing their part by carrying out checks for laundered diesel at these stops."

While noting the arrests and car seizures that have taken place in the past week, the intelligence gathered so far has been described as "perhaps of even more importance" and will lead to a large number of arrests in the very near future.

"This is being run as part of Operation Fiacla and the ultimate hope is that it will lead these gangs to realise that the country's motorway system is no longer easy pickings for these crews," the source added.

"Law-abiding people have nothing to fear about these armed checkpoints and, in fact, crime prevention advice in relation to burglaries and similar crimes is given to ordinary people by community gardai when they are stopped as well," a source explained.

The gardai set up Operation Fiacla to combat the burglary gangs and more than 10,500 people have been arrested in just over two years since it was launched.

More than 6,200 people have been charged with offences in the 29 months since it began.

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Gardai investigating a string of failed ‘assassination’ attempts on a former associate of ‘Fat’ Freddie Thompson are finding it difficult to stack up his accounts of some of the incidents.

Car dealer Michael ‘Micky’ Frazer has shown up a number of times at Garda stations around south Dublin with allegations that he has survived broad daylight attempts on his life in busy locations around the city.

Yet it is understood that gardai are having difficulty finding witnesses to the attacks or matching CCTV footage with his version of some events.

Frazer is a marked man after falling out with his former associates in the ‘Fat’ Freddie gang over a brief affair with a woman and switching his allegiances to bitter rival Brian Rattigan.

He was shot last March at a church car park in Clondalkin, but since then officers believe that his paranoia about his safety is out of control.

Sources say he is convinced he is being followed by masked men who have placed tracking devices on his vehicles and who shoot at him randomly. And he is convinced that he sees Kinahan enforcer Paul Rice everywhere he goes.

It is understood that officers are finding it difficult to locate witnesses to a number of his reports, but are still actively investigating any alleged attempts on his life.

Earlier this month gardai were told he had been shot at in Islandbridge by two gunmen and that Frazer had fled on foot dodging bullets as he went.

An unidentified caller also indicated that Paul Rice had been spotted in the area, but officers who went to the scene failed to locate Frazer, the gunmen, or any witnesses to the attack.

The incident happened just days after he crashed into a Luas pole believing he was being followed by a mystery hitman in a Range Rover.

Frazer was driving his BMW at the time and crashed as he tried to flee from the vehicle, which officers have failed to pick up on CCTV in the area where he was driving.

The 34-year-old got out of his crashed car and flagged down a taxi, which took him to Crumlin Garda station where he reported the incident.

Frazer has also told officers that he survived a murder attempt last August in Tallaght when a masked gunman’s weapon jammed.

Rice was questioned in connection with the incident, but was released without charge. Rice himself has been living in fear since his best friend and former associate Gerard ‘Hatchet’ Kavanagh was gunned down in a Spanish bar last August.

“There is an enormous amount of paranoia at the moment and it is hard to decipher exactly what is going on,” a source said.
“While there is no doubt that Frazer’s life is in danger, a number of his accounts of what happened just haven’t quite added up on investigation.

“He was certainly shot last March, that much we know as he had the injuries to prove it. But what has happened since seems to be a mixture of total paranoia and fear.”

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Street gangs in Jamaica


International crime reporter Donal MacIntyre selects his top 10 tough neighbourhoods and trawls the bloody streets from Mexico to New Orleans to see the decay and destruction at play in some of the most hazardous places on earth.

1. Ciudad Juarez

The Mexican border town tops the list of the world’s most dangerous neighbourhoods. The $90billion U.S. drug trade fuels the murder and mayhem in this cartel-run district. Added to that, the rape and murder of women on an unprecedented scale, and you have the world’s most dangerous neighbourhood.

2. San Pedro Sula

San Pedro Sula, the murder capital of the world, is nearly a brother in arms to its Mexican counterpart with its death toll also closely linked to the demand for cocaine in the U.S. The deportations from American prisons of illegal immigrants and members of feared gangs MS-13 and Mara 18 back to Honduras has spawned a gang culture and created a killing field within the city limits. It made headlines this week when a teenage beauty queen, Miss Honduras Maria Jose Alvarado and her sister, were gunned down an hour from San Pedro Sula. The chief suspect is a jealous boyfriend enraged when she danced with another man. In a city where a woman is murdered every 13 hours, it’s a common event.

3. Cali

The home of the Cali Cartel, Cali has been a byword for danger over three decades. In between the predictable drug business murders, left and right-wing militias battle it out for supremacy. FARC, the IRA-instructed left-wing organisation, has a particular foothold here. Planted bombs, kidnappings and terror attacks are part of daily life.

4. Belem

Belem, the main port on the Amazon, is a metropolis with a murder rate that cannot be accurately ascertained. The Brazilian city’s Klondyke reputation as a route for illicit drugs, valuable timber and the massacre of native indigenous Indians makes for a dangerous town.

5. Caracas

Caracas has a murder rate 100 times that of Ireland, most of which go unsolved. The capital of Venezuela is a bustling, vibrant city, but at the wrong time and in the wrong place, murder and violence is rampant and raw.

6. New Orleans

Just 80 miles away from Baton Rouge, also a high-ranking danger zone, New Orleans remains the most volatile and the most high profile of U.S. crime capitals.
The murder rate ranks in the top 17 of murder capitals, but killings had exceeded 2013’s levels already by October this year. Police crime tape is a regular sight here and the discord around the destruction of the city by Hurricane Katrina did little to harmonise the city and reduce its crime rate.

7. Motor City, Detroit

You’ve got a serious problem in a city where the local police chief calls on law-citizens to arm themselves with concealed weapons to protect themselves against criminals. Motor City, a city within a city, has the highest levels of violence in any U.S. urban area. With houses going for as little as $500, and the city recovering from bankruptcy and unable to afford a sufficient police force, citizens have to defend themselves with their own weapons, mirroring a post-apocalyptic Hollywood movie script.

8. Cape Flats, Cape Town

The plague of methamphetamine or Tik (street name) and the legacy of apartheid, poverty and territorial disputes in the townships have made this part of the southern South African city of Cape Town a no-go area at night. Car-jackings and thefts often end up in murder unnecessarily, but when you can buy a gun for less than €25, then it is easy to understand why life is so cheap.

9. Tivoli Gardens, Kingston

In Jamaica, paradise comes with the visible cost of armed guards on key business outlets and banks in the country’s capital, Kingston. Tivoli Gardens in West Kingston was home to Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, the so called ‘president of the ghetto’ who ran the drugs trade and a great deal of the politicians, in this country. He was the ‘don’ and the head of the ‘International Shower Posse’ until the DEA extradited him on threat of armed invasion into the ghetto. His troops and young victims still run this area and it’s still a no-go zone for the security forces.

10. Guatemala City

In 2009, during the insurgency in Iraq, fewer civilians were killed in that war zone than were shot, stabbed or beaten to death in Guatemala city and only three per cent were solved. With 25 murders a week, currently it more than stakes its dubious claim to this top ten. The end of a civil war in 1996 resulted in a general amnesty for a range of killers and death squads, particularly those in the security apparatus and now they have mutated into highly-connected criminal businesses perpetuating the body count and the violence in this city and the country.

Cocaine worth €50 million seized in joint operation involving Gardai



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A large amount of cocaine has been seized in a joint operation involving Gardai, the National Crime Agency (NCA) and Border Force.

The drugs were seized following the search of the cargo vessel Star Stratos at Portsmouth port yesterday evening.

Approximately 300 kilos were discovered concealed within a shipment of bananas which had originated in Colombia.

Gardaí believe that part of the consignment of drugs was destined for our jurisdiction and the seizure is a major disruption to elements of an Irish organised crime gang.



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"The operation involved cooperation between An Garda Síochána and the NCA, and will help to protect Irish Communities from the scurge of illegal drugs," Gardai said.

Investigations are continuing both in the UK and Ireland.

This is the second joint operation between An Garda Síochána and the NCA which has resulted in a huge cocaine seizure in less than three months.

In September approximately a tonne of cocaine was seized by the Irish Naval Service from the yacht Makayabella around 300 miles off the south west coast of Ireland.

First men jailed by anti-gang laws get sentence cut


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The first two men to be jailed under 2009 anti-gang legislation have had their sentences reduced by the Court of Appeal.

Galway brothers Michael O'Loughlin (34), of Rahylin Glebe, Ballybane and Edward O'Loughlin (31), of Rockfield Park, Rahoon, were originally charged with directing a criminal organisation but pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of membership after a decision not to prosecute was entered on the more serious offence.

They were both sentenced to nine years imprisonment for participating in the activities of a criminal organisation by Judge Martin Nolan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on June 11 2012.

Both men successfully appealed their sentences today and new terms of six-and-a-half years imprisonment were imposed on them.

Mr Justice George Birmingham said there seemed to be some blurring of distinction between directing a criminal organisation and participating in one by Judge Nolan.

He said Judge Nolan found himself in a difficult position. He was the first judge asked to pass sentence under the act and there were no guidelines on how to approach the sentence.

Judge Nolan didn't even have available to him “what the going rate was”, Mr Justice Birmingham said.

The Court of Appeal took the view that the brothers' sentence was too severe in a situation where the organisation in question was operating at mid level criminality.

Having concluded that there was an error in principle, the court decided to substitute nine year prison sentences with sentences of 6-and-a-half years.

Giving background to the case, Mr Justice Birmingham said An Garda Síochána had launched “Operation Foolscap” targeting the activities of a Galway based criminal gang with some thirteen participants.

The garda operation involved traditional policing methods but secondly, a vehicle used by the brothers was subject to audio surveillance, authority for this having been obtained from a judge pursuant to the Criminal Justice Surveillance Act 2009.

On almost every day when recordings were taking place, the judge said, there were some discussions about criminal activities. Specifically the recordings showed the brothers having some involvement with three drug offences and four burglaries.

Mr Justice Birmingham the drugs involved cannabis worth €800, cocaine worth €8,000 and cannabis pollen worth €15,000.

The burglaries concerned two domestic premises and two commercial premises. However, Mr Justice Birmingham said the gardaí were aware the premises were going to be burgled and took steps to ensure there was nothing there.

The judge said Edward O'Loughlin had 48 previous convictions while Michael had 50 and all but one of the brothers' convictions, one of Michael's, had been dealt with in the District Court.

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Assistant Chief Constable Will Kerr speaks during a PSNI press conference
Dissident republicans are planning a Christmas terror blitz in Northern Ireland, a senior police commander has warned.

Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) Assistant Chief Constable Will Kerr said officers were ramping up security levels in the region in a bid to thwart violent attacks.

A rump of republican extremists opposed to the peace process continue to engage in armed actions in Northern Ireland, with members of the security forces their primary targets.

Last year they launched a number of attacks in Belfast in the run-up to Christmas, in a clear bid to cause maximum disruption and havoc in the traditionally busy festive period.

Revellers escaped injury when a small bomb exploded in the busy Cathedral Quarter district, and in another incident a suspected firebomber set himself alight inside a shop when the device he was carrying seemingly ignited prematurely inside his jacket.

There was also a failed car bomb attack close to the entrance of the Victoria Square shopping centre, while gunmen opened fire on a passing police patrol in the Crumlin Road in the north of the city.

Mr Kerr declined to state if the warning was based on intelligence, but said: "I think the fact we are putting out a statement that we assess there is a strong possibility that violent dissident republican groupings will attempt to carry out attacks in towns and cities throughout Northern Ireland will give you a strong sense of how concerned we are about this issue.

"At this stage we know, we believe it is a strong possibility, that a number of those groups are intent on carrying out attacks across Northern Ireland. That is why we are putting put this public appeal for patience, for vigilance, for information and support over the Christmas period."

Police will mount more vehicle checkpoints across Northern Ireland during the festive season while uniformed and plain-clothed patrols will also be stepped up.

Mr Kerr stressed the need for public co-operation to thwart the dissidents.

He described the extremists as an "unrepresentative remnant of a past that no one wants to return to".

"But they remain a dangerous remnant," he added.

He warned that police had witnessed an upsurge in the level and intensity of dissident attacks in recent months.

"We have also seen an uplift in the capability shown by some of these groups as well," he said.

"This year we assess there is a strong possibility that violent dissident republican groupings will attempt to carry out more attacks in towns and cities across Northern Ireland in the run-up to Christmas and beyond.

"There remains a severe threat across Northern Ireland posed by violent dissident republican groupings who remain determined to cause death and bring that disruption to the streets of Northern Ireland over the Christmas period."

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Two men in their 20s have been shot in the legs in Belfast and Derry in two separate incidents.

Both attacks happened on Thursday.

The man in Belfast is believed to have been abducted by three masked men on the Donegall Road, before being taken to Ladymar Walk in West Belfast before being shot at around 6pm.

In Derry, a man was shot in the right leg at Bracken Park at around 8.30pm.

Both men are recovering in hospital after the attacks and their injuries are not said to be life-threatening.

Police have appealed for any witnesses or anyone with any information to contact them.

Special Criminal Court views scene of dissident republican hit



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Murdered: Peter Butterly was shot dead in the car park of the Huntsman Inn



The Special Criminal Court has viewed CCTV footage from the scene of the killing of a dissident republican last year.

Peter Butterly was shot dead in the car park of the Huntsman Inn, Gormanston, Co Meath around 2pm on March 6 2013.

Three Dublin men are on trial at the non-jury court, charged with his murder.

Dean Evans (24) of Grange Park Rise, Raheny; Edward McGrath (33) of Land Dale Lawns, Springfield, Tallaght; and Sharif Kelly (44) of Pinewood Green Road, Balbriggan have pleaded not guilty to murdering the 35-year-old father of two.

Evans and McGrath have also pleaded not ) guilty to firearm offences on the same occasion.

Detective Garda Shane Curran today showed the court CCTV footage captured at the car park of the pub that afternoon. It showed various vehicles entering and exiting the car park, but did not show the actual killing.

The court also heard from a number of garda witnesses as part of a ‘Voir Dire’ or trial within a trial. The court will decide later if this evidence is admissible.

The trial has already heard that Mr Butterly was ‘lured’ to the car park that day by another man not before the court.

A Toyota Corolla was seen entering the car park and, within minutes, shots were discharged at Mr Butterly’s vehicle. Further shots were discharged when he exited his car and attempted to flee.

Mr Butterly was found by a lone garda collapsed in a corner of the car park and was pronounced dead a short time later.

A fourth man, David Cullen (30), with a last address in Balbriggan, was allegedly ‘part of the murder plan himself’ but turned State’s witness against his former co-accused earlier this year.

He has already given evidence implicating the three Dubliners in the murder and has been cross examined by lawyers for Kelly and Evans. McGrath’s legal team will have an opportunity to cross examine him on Tuesday.

The trial will continue then before the three-judge court, with Ms Justice Deirdre Murphy presiding.

Former bus driver jailed for ten years for soliciting Gardai to import cocaine from Brazil


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Sting: Idah was secretly recorded offering Gardai money to swallow a kilo of cocaine
A FORMER CIE bus driver has been given a ten year sentence for soliciting two undercover gardaí to import cocaine from Brazil.

Sunny Idah (39) was caught following an international police operation involving Swiss and Irish undercover police.

He was secretly recorded offering the two gardaí money to swallow a kilogram each of cocaine pellets and bring them back from Brazil to Ireland.

Idah, a Nigerian with addresses at Lipton Court, Dublin City Centre and Gerard House, Brown Street in London pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to soliciting another person to unlawfully import cocaine on dates between September 14 and 19, 2010.

The plea came a week after his trial began last October and following a number of applications by his legal team.

Judge Catherine Murphy today imposed a ten year sentence and suspended the final year. She backdated the sentence to September 2010 when Idah went into custody.

She described it as a sophisticated operation and noted the impact the drugs would have had on users and addicts in this jurisdiction if it had been successful.

The maximum sentence for this offence is fourteen years imprisonment.

Idah was previously sentenced to 13 years imprisonment for this and another drug trafficking offence. This conviction was overturned by the Court of Criminal Appeal after that court ruled that one of the secret recordings made by gardaí did not meet the level of authorisation required.

Colm O'Briain BL, prosecuting, said that Idah's importation operation was complex and part of a “well planned out international operation which took some time to organise.”

Emails from a Yahoo email address showed Idah, using the name Mr T or Teemore, looking to recruit drug mules from a Swiss undercover operative, posing as a known Lithuanian drug dealer.

Detective Garda Brian Roberts told Mr O'Briain that Idah offered €5,000 each to undercover gardaí to travel to Brazil, swallow cocaine worth €140,000 and smuggle it back to Ireland.

Gardaí used hidden audio devices to record conversations between Idah and gardaí posing as two Polish nationals offering their services as drug mules.

Idah asked each of the would-be drug mules to swallow 1kg of cocaine, with an estimated street value of €70,000, in the form of 100 one gramme pellets of compressed cocaine.

Idah had given the two men €400 in cash to pay for a hotel room in Dublin and $1,000 American dollars and flight tickets on the day they were due to depart for Brazil. They never travelled and Idah was arrested the same day.

The court heard that Idah had lived here for ten years and has dual Irish and Nigerian citizenship. He worked as a bus driver for CIE in Galway for four years and has two children with an Irish woman and a third with a Chinese national.

Gangland figure Paul Rice refuses to fly in fear of assassination.



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GANGLAND figure Paul Rice ignored a direct order to travel to Spain for a summit with the Kinahan gang because of fears he would be assassinated, a source has revealed.

Mobster Rice (44), refused to fly to Spain this month for a ‘sit-down’ with a senior member of the Costa-based drugs gang to discuss the murder of his pal Gerard ‘Hatchet’ Kavanagh. The order came as Rice was snubbed by the mob’s most-senior members at the Matthew Macklin fight in the 3Arena two weeks ago.

The Kinahan brothers failed to speak to the armed robber, even though they were sitting only a few metres apart at the boxing match in Dublin’s city centre.

Gangland hardman Rice (44), from Tallaght in south Dublin, previously acted as an enforcer for the mob and was seen as being close to Godfather Christy Kinahan senior.

However, a source has claimed Rice fears he is a marked man because of his close friendship with Hatchet Kavanagh, who was gunned down in Spain in September.

Gardai believe Kavanagh may have been responsible for a botched hit on Daniel Kinahan, during which boxer Jamie Moore was shot.

Our source said: “They [the Kinahan gang] didn’t meet Rice at the boxing and never hooked up with him at all while they were over. He was summoned to Spain for a sit-down but he won’t go because he fears he’ll end up with Hatchet.”



Rice and Hatchet were partners-in-crime for more than two decades and were close personal friends.

After Kavanagh moved to Spain in the early noughties, he set up his own drugs importation business with Rice acting as his ‘agent’ in Dublin. However, in recent years the pair had ended up working directly as debt collectors for the Kinahans. Rice was one of the coffin bearers at Kavanagh’s funeral when he was laid to rest in Drimnagh on
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Gardai are investigating if a hitman from the south inner city – who was also responsible for the murder of Christopher ‘Git’ Zambra – was hired to kill Kavanagh. It is believed Hatchet had a falling out with a number of Irish criminals on the Costa del Sol who all wanted him dead.

Underworld sources have revealed that Kavanagh was also accused of pocketing money belonging to the Kinahan gang.

Two years ago he was sent home to Ireland to collect €3m worth of drug debts owed to the Kinahans, who were desperate for money.

There is no proof that he did anything wrong, but it is known that he did not see eye-to-eye with Daniel Kinahan, second-in-command of the mob, who preferred to surround himself with younger criminals.

State witness denies witness protection would be a fresh start.


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An accused-turned State witness in the Peter Butterly murder trial has denied that leaving his life here to go on witness protection abroad would not be much of a sacrifice for him as his ‘life was pretty bad’ here.

David Cullen was being cross examined at the Special Criminal Court in the trial of three Dublin men charged with murdering the dissident republican last year.

He was also originally accused of the murder, but turned State’s witness earlier this year and has given evidence implicating his three former co-accused in the murder.

He agreed with Giollaíosa Ó Lideadha SC, defending Sharif Kelly, yesterday that he had an incentive to make allegations about his client because he was avoiding life in prison.



He also agreed that a disincentive to someone going on witness protection would be separating himself from his life and lifestyle.

“But you didn’t have much contact with friends and family,” suggested the barrister. “You didn’t have much to lose, and going on the Witness Protection Programme would be a fresh start for you.”

The barrister suggested that the programme would actually be attractive to him as his life was pretty bad here. Cullen did not accept this.

Mr Ó Lideadha mentioned aspects of his family history, including his relationship with his parents and his consumption of alcohol.

“You’re the type of person, who doesn’t have close connections with people,” continued the barrister, adding that going away and leaving people wouldn’t represent the same sacrifice for him as it would for others.

“I wouldn’t accept that,” he replied.

Mr Ó Lideadha then read him the transcript of a phone conversation he’d had with his father in September while Cullen was in prison.

“You’ll be out of the country and all. You know that?” noted his father.

“Beats doing 20 years in here,” replied Cullen. “It’s a fresh start anyway – get away from all the f**kin sh*te over here.”

Cullen accepted he’d said this.

“I didn’t mean it like that,” he said, however. “I meant all this IRA bullsh*t.”

Mr Ó Lideadha had already put to him the contents of a series of notes received from Cullen’s solicitor’s file. They related to how he had gone from a murder accused to a prosecution witness no-longer facing a murder charge.

These showed that he had also offered the State information on another high-profile murder.

Cullen had agreed to voluntarily disclose documents relating to his communications with his solicitor since June 5th, 2014, when he decided to become a State witness. Defence lawyers had sought the disclosure.

Mr Ó Lideadha read out a note made by his solicitor around that time, which said that he had told a Detective Superintendent that Cullen had information on another named murder case as well as on others.

Cullen agreed that it seemed that the Detective Superintendent had asked the solicitor to find out what this other information was.

He agreed that he knew he was at a very serious risk of being convicted of the Butterly murder and of getting a life sentence.



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He also agreed that the solicitor’s note that the prosecution case was ‘in good shape’ meant that, in order to get a deal from the State, Cullen would have to offer something in relation to other matters as well.

He agreed that he would also have to ‘fill any gaps in the prosecution case’.

Cullen, who was a co accused of the three men on trial for murder, has already been dealt with by the court for lesser offences. He is currently serving a three-and-half-year prison sentence.

He has already given evidence implicating the three Dubliners in the murder of Mr Butterly, who was shot dead in the car park of the Huntsman Inn, Gormanston, Co Meath on March 6 2013.

Dean Evans (24) of Grange Park Rise, Raheny; Edward McGrath (33) of Land Dale Lawns, Springfield, Tallaght; and Sharif Kelly (44) of Pinewood Green Road, Balbriggan have pleaded not guilty to murdering the 35-year-old father of two. Evans and McGrath have also pleaded not guilty to firearm offences on the same occasion.

The trial is continuing before the three-judge, non-jury court, with Ms Justice Deirdre Murphy presiding

WARNING GRAPHIC: Woman brutally beaten by football fans in front of daughter


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Lorena Sabio and her daughter
33-year-old Lorena Sabio, was set upon by a group of football hooligans as she and her daughter walked home.


The man who allegedly beat Ms Sabio has been identified as Miguel Angel Zienzonok, whose nickname is “Ketchup” because he likes making a red mess of his rivals.

The horrific incident occurred when Ms Sabio and her daughter were returning from the Superclásico football match, which is Argentina’s biggest domestic rivalry.


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A fan of the losing side, Boca Juniors, spotted little girl and her mum wearing a River Plate jersey and attacked.

“He came up to me and I couldn’t believe it when he just punched me in the head," she said.

"I was lying on the ground barely conscious, and he told me to stay there and warned me that if I went to the police, I would pay the price."

Doctors have told the victim that she will be scarred permanently as a result of the attack.



Lorena before the attack

Although witnesses have come forward to tell local media that the attack was unprovoked the police have yet to make an arrest, which prompted the mum of one to start her Facebook campaign.

“He has threatened me and his family have told me to stop the campaign, but what more can they do to me?’ she wrote.

“They have already ruined my face, I have difficulty even managing to eat, and will need dozens of operations that I can’t afford to return my health.



“My daughter has nightmares. The man is crazy, and unless somebody stand up to him he will probably carry on doing it and next time probably kill someone.”


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fucking scumbag who did that, shits sickening

This is a cowardly act to attack what looks like a single mom in front of her child.

Who controls Limerick these days since the Dundon top brass got put away? Are the Keane,Collopys still active? They came up recently in an article I was reading about the drug problem in Roscrea Co Tipp, about 40 miles up the road from Lim.

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For the first time in 15 years Limerick has not seen one murder in a 12-month period.

It has been the least violent year in terms of murders in the history of the troubled city since 2000.

A large part of the reason given for the dramatic fall in the number of killings has been attributed to the destruction of the deadly gang led by Wayne Dundon.

The evil mobster created a climate of fear and terror for much of the last decade when as many as six people were murdered in any one 12-month period.

Many fell victim to Dundon or his associates as they waged a vicious turf war with their Keane-Collopy rivals.

With most of his gang banged up in the wake of the vicious murders of innocent Shane Geoghegan and Roy Collins in the city, and pressure brought to bear on the Keane-Collopys, peace has returned to what was once branded Stab City.

In 2012 and 2013, there were only two murders in the city and neither of them was gang-related.

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Pearse McAuley
The well-known Republican Pearse McAuley is due in court today on a charge of assaulting his wife in a house in Cavan on Christmas Eve.

McAuley of Canal Bank Walk, Castleforde, Ballyconnell, Co Cavan was accused of assault causing harm to Pauline Tully McAuley after she was found with serious stab wounds to the upper body last week.

Mr McAuley was also charged with threatening to kill three people on the same date - one of them his wife, who is a former Sinn Féin councillor.

Pearse McAuley has been granted free legal aid. He is due to come before a judge at Harristown District Court later.

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This is grieving gangland widow Tracey Brady as she tries to rebuild her life following the murder of drug dealing husband Gerard ‘Hatchet’ Kavanagh.

Tracey has thrown herself into trying to earn an honest living for herself and her daughter, who likes to keep horses and attends an expensive private school.

Since the brutal murder of Hatchet on the Costa del Sol, she has returned to her base in Benalmadena and is running a beauty salon to try and make ends meet.

The family have been in chaos for months and shortly before her husband’s murder were moving from house to house as Hatchet remained in fear of his life.

Following the murder, they returned to Ireland where they stayed with relatives in the run-up and aftermath of the funeral.

But Tracey decided to move back to her base in the sun where she is attempting to make a new life for herself without the millions her husband once pocketed from his lucrative drug industry.

For the mum-of-two, there will be no life insurance policy and no pension plan to tide her over for the tough times ahead. Instead, she has to tried to keep herself in the life she has become accustomed to on the spoils of her husband’s drug money.

But last week Tracey put her troubles behind her and hosted a Christmas knees-up for beauticians and stylists from her Divas salon in Benalmadena.



As our exclusive pictures show, the newly-widowed blonde partied with pals during a lavish dinner for staff and managed to put on a brave face despite her grief.

Tracey’s world was torn apart last August when husband Gerard was gunned down at Harmon’s bar in Marbella.

Spanish police have, to date, made no progress on the murder investigation and have yet to identify the mystery man who joined Hatchet on an outdoor terrace of the bar just shortly before he was shot.

Hatchet had arranged to go to the bar to meet a distraught Dublin couple on behalf of Daniel Kinahan. It is understood that he met with the couple, whose life was under threat and who had gone to the Kinahans to see if would they intervene.

The couple left the bar before the shooting and are completely innocent of any involvement in the incident. However, shortly after the meeting ended Kavanagh was joined by another man who fled following the murder.



Two masked gunmen pumped nine bullets into Hatchet as he tried to run for his life through the bar. After blasting him in the back, the killers turned him over and shot him in the head to make sure there was no prospect of him surviving the attack.

The getaway vehicle and murder weapons were then torched in what is recognised as a classic ‘Irish’ modus operandi, similar to several other assassinations of organised criminals.

Gardai have speculated that the murder was an inside job or an elaborate double cross from within the Spanish based Kinahan mob.

Hatchet, who had built up his own drug dealing business in Benalmadena over the past ten years, had in recent times started working as an enforcer for the Kinahan gang along with his sidekick Paul Rice.

Rice has been lying low since the murder and refused to go to Spain to meet with ‘Dapper Don’ Christy Kinahan in recent weeks. Associates say he is terrified he will be the next to be killed in a bitter fight with the criminals.

Rumours are rife on the Costa that Hatchet had trousered up to e800,000 that the mob claimed belonged to them.

Sources say that Hatchet and Tracey’s relationship had run into difficulties in recent years. The pair had been young sweethearts while Kavangh was dealing drugs around Drimnagh and Crumlin.

The couple bought a house at Mayberry Park in Tallght and she had their first child, Jamie, who would go on to become the famed boxer.

In 1996, when Hatchet was 25, he was jailed for four years for dealing heroin. However, gardai quickly realised that he was a major player and had up to 10 dealers working for him pedalling the drug around Dolphin’s Barn, Drimnagh and Crumlin.

After his release he teamed up with Paul Rice and the pair became a force to be reckoned with, making their way up the drugs ladder until they relocated to the Costa in 2005.

There they started to live a life that Tracey had only ever dreamed of. They embedded themselves with the well-heeled show jumping world and sent their children to private schools. They bought a house with a pool and lavished cash on their children and themselves.

Hatchet was known as a ‘flash’ dresser and liked expensive Rolex watches and fast cars. Tracey spent tens of thousands on her looks – booking in for botox and liposuction – and had her wardrobes stuffed with designer clothes.



But in the past two years things had started to go wrong for the couple when the Kinahans took over the business and forced Hatchet back on to the streets of Tallaght kicking in doors to collect drug debts.

Sources say the couple split and that he was spending increasing amounts of time back in Dublin with old pal Rice.

In the run-up to his death, Hatchet was living in fear for his life and moved his family out of the home they had been living in for almost a decade.

Now sources say that Tracey is desperate to save face under the Spanish sun where she was once the envy of many.

“The fact of the matter is that she is going to have to work damn hard to try and keep up the lifestyle she has become so use to. There is no more drugs money so she has to go out now and earn for herself. Tracey is a tough nut but she will have a hard time ahead to keep the show on the road,” a source said.

“But she is putting on a brave face and determined that she doesn’t lose her status.”

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A MUM of nine who survived being shot 12 times on her doorstep, has named the man she believes was behind the attack in a letter to the new Garda Commissioner pleading for the case to be re-opened.

Catherine Delaney McCormack broke a six-year silence earlier this month when she told the Sunday World of her ordeal when she was shot 12 times at her home in Clondalkin.

She revealed the full horrors of the night she opened the door and was greeted by a masked gunman who pumped bullets into her body as she tried to crawl away.

Catherine has informed the Commissioner of who she believes hired a hitman to try to kill her and asked her to appoint new investigators to her case, as the original team under Superintendent John Quirke have failed to make progress.

The award-winning care worker was shot on June 13, 2008, and to date, she says there have been no arrests made in the case and she has not been kept informed of any developments.



“At the time I was told by gardai that the gunman was a hired hitman, which I have long believed was employed by *******,” she told Garda Commissioner Noirin O’Sullivan.

“It is six years since that dreadful night and I cannot even describe what I have gone through both physically and mentally.

“I continue to live in fear for my life and in particular as the gardaí allocated to investigate my case do not seem to have made any progress” she wrote.

“I would like to request that my case be re-investigated and some priority put to solving it. I have had very unsatisfactory communication with gardaí throughout this time and feel that I, as a victim of crime, have been all but ignored.



“If I was killed on that night would my case remain unsolved? It is almost as if I am being punished for having survived such a dreadful attack.”

Catherine also detailed in her appeal to the Garda boss that she has moved home eight times since the shooting and lives in fear for her life.

“I feel as if I have been completely let down by the Garda Siochana,” she wrote.

“As a woman I’m sure you can understand how terrified I remain and I am hoping that you can help me.”

Opposition justice spokesman Niall Collins is hoping to meet with Ms Delaney McCormack in the coming weeks to discuss her case.

Catherine is a walking miracle after medics removed all the bullets from her stomach, legs and back after she was shot at point-blank range while her children looked on.

Previously, an unidentified gunman fired four shots through the hall door of her home and months later her car was set alight outside the house. Both incidents were reported to gardai.

Now Catherine is taking her case to Dáil Deputies and all the way to the Garda Commissioner in order to have the investigation relaunched.

“I am a victim of crime, not a criminal. I adhere to the law and now it is time for me to see some justice,” she said.

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Arrest: Gardai discovered approximately 150 cannabis plants at the premise.

Gardai have arrested one man after discovering a large quantity of cannabis plants at a premise.

Gardai yesterday afternoon carried out a search at a house at Cherrymount, Avoca, in County Wicklow.

Approximately 150 cannabis plants with an estimated street value of €120,000 were seized, along with a large amount of cultivation equipment.

A 30-year-old man was arrested at scene and taken to Pearse Street Garda Station where he was detained under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984.

He has been released without charge and a file is being prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions.

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Roly poly crime boss Paul Gray came out of hiding this week as he couldn’t resist tucking into Christmas dinner at his drug den pub.

The former UVF boss from Ballymena, who is under serious pressure from the UVF on the Shankill after he tried to pull the wool over their eyes, turned up at the Coach Bar’s Christmas party last weekend.

Our exclusive picture shows Gray, who was kicked out of the UVF after ripping them off to the tune of £250,000, wearing a Christmas party hat having stuffed his face with a turkey dinner and all the trimmings.

Gray has run the bar for years and locals have been left scratching their heads as to how the police allow him to continue running late night illegal drug parties and regular card schools from the haunt in Ballymena’s town centre.

Sources say Gray has been told he’s safe by UVF bosses in Belfast. It’s understood they could be waiting until after the Gary Haggarty trial before they make a move on him.

Remarkably Gray spent a few days at the home of Mount Vernon UVF hitman Darren Moore.

“When Gray went into hiding a few weeks ago the UVF on the Shankill were worried he might have gone to Heggarty and turned supergrass,” said a source.

“He knows where a lot of bodies are buried and the thing about Gray is he only thinks about No. 1.

“But it turns out he was staying with Darren Moore of all people – the same person who’s girlfriend he’s been seeing.

“Apparently he’s very tight with Moore and has been keeping him sweet with a few quid.”
A fortnight ago we revealed how Gray had gone to ground after a botched attempt to stitch up his own criminal pals had gone disastrously wrong.

That incident, which we can’t go into the details of because of legal reasons, centred on Gray trying to make a killing over smuggled fags.

The notorious gambler had sunk to new depths as he attempted to blow smoke in the eyes of his own crime pals in a desperate attempt to score himself thousands of pounds.

When it all went wrong he caught the eye of his former UVF bosses on the Shankill Road who sent top man Joe ‘No Neck’ Megaw down to Ballymena to get some answers.

Now it has emerged he may have been at his work again after 10,000 illegal fags were seized in a property just a few doors from Gray’s pub last week.

Sources have told the Sunday World the contraband smokes came originally from Paul Gray.

“Those fags were supplied by Gray,” said a source. “People in Ballymena suspect he’s chucking the cops a few bones to keep them sweet.

“It’s how he gets to operate his empire without being hindered by the police.”

Police and customs officials seized the suspected counterfeit cigarettes during the search of a business premises in Ballymena last week.

Chief Inspector Stephen McCauley added: “A woman has been arrested in connection with the search which was led by HM Revenue and Customs. A small amount of rolling tobacco was also seized.”

The woman was released on Tuesday December 16 on police bail pending further enquiries.

Sources say Gray has become increasingly desperate to fund his heavy gambling problem recently.

Indeed it was his heavy gambling that saw him ousted as UVF boss in Ballymena.

It’s already been a bad year for Gray after his partner turfed him out for playing around with a young blond – who turned out to also be seeing Darren Moore.

And that came after he was finally stood down from the UVF after he was accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of pounds from the terror gangs coffers.

A wide-ranging internal investigation carried out by the UVF’s Shankill Road bosses revealed that Gray and his pal Darren ‘ch*nk’ O’Neill had stashed over £250,000 in secret bank accounts south of the border.

Gray and O’Neill had been ripping off the UVF for some time before bosses on the Shankill finally took action. Gray had been running a loan sharking operation and controlled a number of drug dealers in the area.

A team of senior UVF personnel based on Belfast’s Shankill Road arrived at Gray’s pub in Ballymena in January accompanied by a leading member of the Progressive Unionist Party to tell them they were finished.

The Sunday World understands Gray was forced to hand over £10k to his former boss to save himself from being shot.

Seven people have had a lucky escape after a gun attack on a house in Omagh.

Shots were fired through a back window of a house on McClay Park before 9.30pm on Thursday night.

A police spokesperson said that the seven adults in the bar at the time were left "shaken".

Sinn Féin MLA Declan McAleer said: "Thankfully no one was injured in this incident but it must have been a very frightening experience for those in the house and their neighbours.

"Those responsible for this incident do not represent the views of the community in Omagh.

"This is a community moving forward and we do not want this type of activity trying to drag us back to the past. I would urge anyone with information on this attack to bring it forward to the PSNI."

Ulster Unionist MLA Ross Hussey, said: "The New Year is all about peace and goodwill, but the perpetrators of this attack know nothing of either.

"Fortunately nobody was seriously injured. However this house is in a large housing estate."

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Crime gang Action Against Drugs is running a lucrative gun for hire racket.

The north Belfast mob is in possession of a single AK47 assault rifle and has been offering it out for rent.

The gang will rent the gun for an agreed period of time at an agreed price to criminals to carry out activities that would require fire power.

And for an extra, substantial cash payment, they will even agree to claim responsibility for any shootings carried out by ‘clients’ under the banner of AAD.

The gun, once in the possession of the IRA, has a bloody history and is believed to have been used in the murder of low level drug dealer Danny McKay, shot in the Longlands estate on the outskirts of north Belfast two years ago.

The Sunday World understands a number of criminal gangs have been approached by AAD with the offer of an AK47.

The AK47 previously belonged to the Provisional IRA.

Killed: Danny McKay

“AAD has just proven once again that they would do anything for cash,” said our source.

“They’ve always been like that their only loyalty is to money, it’s their only interest and they will do anything to make a few pounds.”

The Sunday World has previously revealed how the New Lodge based outfit has been targeting drug dealers demanding payment in return for allowing them to deal on their patch.

Headed by Danny McKay murder suspect, Roy McAuley, AAD masquerades as an anti-drug vigilante group. In reality their mission is to control the narcotics trade.

“They are not making as much as they would like extorting the money from the drug dealers so this is the gang’s new racket, renting out the AK to anyone who is willing to pay.

“They have even thrown in an extra option of letting anyone who uses the weapon in a shooting to use AAD as a cover name, that’s how desperate they are for cash and some of us are not too happy about this arrangement, so many things could go wrong like never getting the gun back,” the associate said.
The Sunday World can reveal AAD approached one well-known Belfast criminal in recent weeks to offer him their services even claiming they had the back of the IRA had the protection of the provos in a bid to give themselves more credibility.

These claims come as McAuley finds himself under mounting pressure as tensions in North Belfast continue to rise due to his power struggle with members of the INLA.

Last week the Sunday World revealed how McAuley was vying for control of the narcotics trade against a band of brothers who are connected to the republican paramilitary group.

The Sunday World can also reveal McAuley has also approached respected republicans in the area to claim that any allegations made against him were concocted by the INLA members.

“It’s Alice in Wonderland stuff, he has nowhere near the level of confidence he had six or seven months ago. That’s why he’s running about Belfast telling people that he has the backing of the Provo’s which is laughable, they regard him with the highest contempt and with suspicion.

“He thinks that if people think he has the support of mainstream republicans it will offer him a bit more protection but all he is doing is racking up more trouble for himself.

“People know what he is saying and his activities are being monitored, he is a criminal under pressure and his recent actions and ludicrous claims prove that,” the source added.

Like so many others McAuley is viewed with suspicion after being stopped by police in a car with false number plates and a large sum of unexplained cash. He was never arrested.

However he was named by police, in court, as the chief suspect in the murder of Danny McKay, who had refused to pay extortion demands by McAuley’s gang, then known as Correct Action Against Drugs.

Meanwhile the turf war between McAuley’s crew and the INLA brothers continues to simmer.

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The scene after the firebomb attack last Christmas in Belfast city centre

A dissident plot to launch a firebomb plot to hit major stores in Northern Ireland in the run-up to Christmas has been foiled by Gardai.

The Gardai's Special Detective Unit raided premises in County Louth on Tuesday, recovering a number of firebombs which they said were "sophisticated and elaborate".

Three senior republicans were arrested by Gardai during the raid.

One of the men, in his 50s, is suspected of being an experienced bomb maker who made bombs for the Provisional IRA during The Troubles.

It has been reported that the arrests were the result of an ongoing surveillance operation, with Gardai working in conjunction with the PSNI.

Last year a Belfast city centre shop in Cornmarket was attacked with a firebomb which ignited, leading to a street to be closed and the shop evacuated.

Love it Don Omega. Thought this thread was finished for a bit there. Keep em coming. Any new info on the Gerard "hatchet" kavanaugh murder or what the landscape is with "Rice" and his situation after refusing to go to that sitdown?

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Notorious mobster Martin ‘The Viper’ Foley was celebrating this week after becoming a ‘Daddy’ again at the ripe old age of 64.

His 38 year old wife Sonia Doyle gave birth to an eight pound baby girl on Wednesday night making Foley a proud father for the third time.

But his happiness was tinged with tragedy after his best pal and business partner died suddenly just as his wife went into labour.

Foley was congratulated and consoled by gangster friends at Cunningham’s funeral on Thursday morning in what was an emotional week for The Viper.

Sonia is Foley’s second wife and the pair have been together for 10 years having met after his first wife Pauline passed away ni 2003.

They married in a small ceremony in Puerto Rico in the Canary Islands in November 2013 and were thrilled when Sonia found out she was pregnant last year.

Friends say that Foley was thrilled with impending fatherhood despite the fact that his other two daughters are both in their 20s and he will be in his 80s when his child is still just a teenager.

The birth of a the little girl is sure to take the edge off what has been a difficult year for Foley.

He was raided by the Criminal Assets Bureau late last year after being handed a bill for euro 916,960 from them. The bill relates to the alleged under declaration of income tax from his debt collection business Viper Recovery Agency which is now defunct.

Last October Foley spoke out saying he was infuriated that his wedding ring was taken during the dawn raid on his home in relation to his CAB bill. It is understood Revenue officials also took company accounts.

The veteran gangster has proven to be something of a medical miracle after surviving five attempts on his life. He is believed to have 18 bullets lodged in his body after the attempts.

Foley has more than 40 convictions, some for assault, robbery, and possession of threatening weapons.

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BIZARRE: Breen's paranoid rant
Killer mobster Karl Breen has claimed the vicious Clondalkin feud is over and that he is more worried about the gardai than his old enemies.

Breen (33), was released from prison in October after serving seven years for stabbing pal Martin McLaughlin (21), to death during a drunken fight at a New Year’s Eve party back in 2006.

Gardai believe the criminal was previously the head of a west Dublin gang known as the Infamous D22.

The mob was involved in a bloody gangland war in the Clondalkin area, which lead to at least four gangland killings – including the murder of Breen’s best pal Pierce Reid.

But in a rant on a social media site, Breen has claimed he is no longer under threat from his former rivals and is regularly in Clondalkin.

He writes: “Theres NO feud in clondalkin, its sorted but d media are doin their best to restart it.
“I’m not paranoid bout enemies, id b more paranoid of d garda settin me up or killin me and makin it look lîke sumtin else.”

These exclusive photographs show Breen posing in Limerick during a visit to the city earlier this month.

Gardai believe that since his release he has been living in Co. Westmeath and associating with criminals from the Athlone area who he met in prison.

Breen denies he is on the run from the gardai, but admits failing to give the address he is staying at when stopped by officers.

“You think I’d give them any adress i be at? What, so they can kick d door in every week.

“I dont have to giv my adress to NOBODY so F**L them tramps. Tryn to get me killed,certain garda wud b in collusion wit certin crims theyd giv ur adress up like a light.
“And d LAST time d garda had me adress they tried to kill me and make it look like an accident,only for there was a witness there they wouldve killed me.. Im on d sóuthside EVERY day im hidin from NOBODY.”

During his time behind bars, Breen was moved to a protection wing in Limerick Prison after he had crossed some of the prison system’s most notorious inmates.