owns a number of businesses in west Belfast, only joined OnR to protect his own interests after he became the target of anti-social gangs.
Just before he offered his services graffiti labelling him a tout also appeared on gable walls. Re has been arrested in connection to several dissident crimes, but has never been charged. Most recently he was arrested in connection with the bomb under the east Belfast officer's car, just like Reilly.
In short, the OnH is far from the 'republican army' they would have you believe; they are gangsters whose main aim is to earn as much money as they can under the guise of 'community leaders' and supporters of a united Ireland.
The money that makes its way into its coffers is helped by the current Colin Area leader Mark Heaney, who recently received a three-year suspended sentence after police raided his home and discovered a rifle. On behalf of OnR he extorts between £10,000 to £15,000 at a time from drug dealers and has taken part in punishment attacks on those who have refused to meet their demands.
Re also uses dealers in the area to pinpoint rival pushers, who Heaney will in turn also target. He was arrested in connection with the shooting of an alleged drug dealer who could not pay, but was released without charge.
At one time Heaney would have been quite happy to sit quietly as top dealers plied their trade, but the Sunday World can reveal he was pals with the likes of murdered drug thug Ed Mc Coy, Maxi McAlorum, Liam 'Fat Boy' Mooney, Frankie Turley and Studs Lanigan.
Cornrnandel's
Other areas of Belfast, including Beechmount, Turf Lodge, Whiterock,Andersonstown and Ardoyne, all operate under a similar blueprint and all have area commanders who are directly answerable to Seamus McGrane and Carl Reilly.Gary 'Beat' O'Neill is in charge of the running of the Andersonstown area.
He received a three-year suspended sentence in July 2011 after a handgun was found buried in his back garden by PSNI. It was revealed at the time that the judge decided not to send him to jail as he was the father of five children The Beechmount area is controlled by Brendan 'Shando' Shannon, a former Provo prisoner who was previously the second in command of OnR.
Yet dissident sources have revealed Shannon was demoted due to his depressive state of mind and his involvement in the Boston College interview tapes in which he was senn as passing on too much information. And a man responsible for mugging a nun is in charge of the Whiterock area where he lives. We cannot identify him at this stage as he is currently facing charges in connection to dissident activity.
Not only does this thug get his kicks from robbing elderly nuns, but he was also responsible for a homophobic attack in west Belfast and the theft of two pensioners' life savings.The OnR leader in Turf Lodge is of no better character. Kevin Cradock, a well known joyrider, is close friends with Christopher Notarantonio, who was involved in the brutal murder of Gerard Devlin in Ballymurphy in 2006.
Like his OnH counterparts, the Turf Lodge dissident generates substantial sums of cash by threatening drug dealers and their families. One drug dealer took exception to his demands and attacked him near the shops in Turflodge. He was shot by the OnR but later joined their ranks.
The blueprint remains the same across the board. The name of the game is cash and it doesn't matter how it is raised. In the Ardoyne area of north Belfast almost 20 men have been expelled from their homes since the beginning of last year.
Former IRA man Thomas 'Ta' Cosgrove, who has convictions for explosives and used to be the boss of the OnH in the north of the city, has recently resigned due to family pressure and his alleged desire to travel the world on the fortune he amassed during his reign of terror.
Killers
His replacement is a man who was involved in the clean-up operation after the double drug fuelled killing of Continuity IRA men Ed Burns and Joe Jones. He was responsible for 'forensically cleaning' the car used by the killers.
The car belonged to 'Fat Deccy' Smith, now a current member of the Dublin Real IRA. The question that remains on everybody's lips is how the main players of OnH continue to get away with their openly criminal lifestyles.
They operate, right under the noses of the PSNI, yet they remain free to carry out their illegal operations. And is it just a coincidence that no members of the security forces or the police have been killed or seriously injured since Reilly came into leadership?
