THESE ARE the faces of Ireland's dissident war machine.
For the first time ever the Sunday World reveals the men hell-bent on terror, and their place in the dissident republican power structure.
Known as the collective leadership (CL), the top table of terrorism controls the New Real IRA -north and south - overseeing a mind-boggling all-Ireland crimi- nal empire.
Now an exclusive Sunday World investigation gets under the skin of the New Real IRA. We unmask the dissident godfathers and rip open the racketeering, counterfeiting and smuggling operations that provide the, funds needed to oil their killing machine.
In an explosive report we reveal this is an organisation determined to continue their war. Organised,well funded and with an arsenal of guns, grenades and rocket 'launchers, their blueprint is murder.
Worried
Well-known dissident Colin Duffy sits alongside Belfast man Alex McCrory and Co. Tyrone brothers-in-law Brian Arthurs and Frankie Quinn - together they are the collective leadership of this recently renamed group.
While Duffy is a major player, he is far from considered as the overall boss, as previously believed. In fact,well placed dissident sources say those close to him have become increasingly worried for his health,as he is prone to suffering from episodes of depression.
A constant target for the PSNI,Lurgan man Duffy has been arrested on numerous occasions and faced murder charges - most recently the double murder of soldiers Mark
Quinsey and Patrick Azimkar at Massereene Barracks in Antrim in 2009. Charges against him were withdrawn.
He remains an important part of the controlling structure, despite unease among active dissidents over his close relationship with republican Brendy 'Mr Bean' Conway. Conway, from the Ardoyne in north Belfast, has a conviction in relation to a tiger kidnapping, and keeps Duffy, McCrory and the New
Real IRA supplied with cash and cars, prompting some dissidents to accuse Duffy of putting his own financial interests first.CL sidekick McCrory, a former IRA prisoner, is close to Duffy and a one-time member of Oglaigh na hEireann (OnH).
He remains, despite switching allegiance, a firm friend of west Belfast OnH chief Carl Reilly and is regularly seen in his company.McCrory, who claimed last year that MI5 tried to recruit him as a tout, was the main organiser at the funeral of murdered Real IRA chief Alan Ryan in Dublin last year. Like Duffy, he too relies on Conway for finances and enjoys the use of an Alfa Romeo car, free of charge.
The collective leadership is completed by brothers-in-law Brian Arthurs and Frankie Quinn. The pair are founder members of the 1916 Societies, a 'political' grouping connected to the New
Real IRA, which describes itself as a "separatist movement committed to the implementation of the Proclamation of Independence". Yet they still find time to indulge in serious criminal activity.
Arthurs was expelled from the mainstream republican movement because of his connections to criminality and recently pleaded guilty to being in possession of criminal property and £345,000 in cash, the proceeds of criminal activity.
Along with brother-in-law Quinn,the pair have strong connections to a number of southern-based smugglers, and recently had to go into hiding because of 'toxic' shampoo! They were the laughing stock of their criminal pals last year after smuggling a container of contraband shampoo, only for their customers to sustain severe burns to their scalps!
The hunted pair were forced to change their phone numbers and keep a low profile until the embarrassing fiasco blew over. Sensitive security documents seen by the Sunday World identify Quinn and Arthurs as paramilitary leaders.
With Duffy and McCrory they have their finger on the button of dissident terrorism and without their knowledge or say-so nothing can happen in the name of the New Real IRA.
Blackmail
Just like the OnH, they rely on criminality in the form of extorting drug dealers, blackmail and tiger kidnappings to boost their funds.
However, the New Real IRA could not operate without a network of smugglers. Through the import of guns, counterfeit money and cigarettes they supply the terror group with everything they need.
And the Sunday World dissident dossiers can reveal the identity of the crew that is helping to fund the New Real IRA's war machine.
Chief among this gang is Aiden Grew, a close associate of Arthurs and Quinn and who was also friendly with Gareth O'Connor, murdered in 2003.
A native of Blackwaters Town in County Armagh, he was given a three-year suspended sentence for his role in a massive cigarette smug- gling operation in which 15 million illegal cigarettes were recovered by the PSNI.
Grew was fined £500,000, which he initially refused to pay. A few days after being jailed his sister arrived at Maghaberry with the half a million in cash.
Philip Forsythe is the newly appointed leader of the Dublin Real IRA, one of.a number of operatives tasked with smuggling and extortion for the New Real IRA.
He replaced 'Fat Deccy' Smith after the Belfast man was accused and found guilty of withholding New Real IRA funds for his own gain and not sending them north.
Forsythe served an eight-year prison sentence after being arrested in 1998 as part of a RIRA gang in which Dublin RIRA member Ronan MacLoughlin lost his life, during an armed robbery in Co. Wicklow.
Forsythe works closely with well known Dublin criminal Pascal Burke, who is suspected of links to the men who murdered Alan Ryan. Burke works directly for the CL in the north and reports directly to Arthurs and Quinn.
Sean Connolly, currently on remand for the murder of notorious criminal Eamon Kelly, is alleged to have recently threatened to kill Burke. Burke has been given permission by the leadership to deal with Connolly "as he sees fit".
Dealer
Between Burke and Forsythe they have the Dublin criminal world under control, taking off where Ryan left off in extorting large sums of cash from drug dealers,businesses and organising robberies.
The new Derry boss is Fergal Malough, a former member of Republican Action Against
Drugs (RAAD) who is addicted to gambling and has convictions for explosives. Along with his second in command Thomas 'Ash' Mellon, convicted for the possession of explosives,they extort money and property belonging to suspected drug dealers.
The Sunday World can reveal the new Derry boss is suspected of skimming money to pay for his habit. He also confiscated a top of the range car from a top Derry drug dealer only to give it to another dissident to drive, causing much ridicule and embarrassment to RAAD.
Gary 'Donzo' Donnelly, whose star has fallen, is still very much part of the dissident scene. Though he now holds no 'titled' position within the New Real IRA, he is still a senior member of the illegal organisation.Donnelly continues raising cash by extorting anyone who he sees as a drug dealer.
