http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/john-gilligan-minder-murdered-by-lone-gunman-30096643.html

John Gilligan 'minder' murdered by lone gunman.

JIM CUSACK, PAUL WILLIAMS AND BARRY DUGGAN – UPDATED 16 MARCH 2014 12:03 PM

A notorious west Dublin criminal who 'minded' John Gilligan on his release from prison, acting as his driver, was shot dead last night.

Stephen Douglas 'Dougie' Moran, in his mid-40s, was shot by a lone gunman at his home in the Earlsfort estate in Clondalkin at 7.30pm.

Gardai and emergency services arrived at the scene a short time later and Moran was rushed to Tallaght Hospital but later died.

Gardai are gathering CCTV footage from the victim's home.

A burnt-out car was later discovered in Glen Vale, Lucan. Gardai are investigating the possibility that this may have been involved in the murder.

After John Gilligan's release from Portlaoise Prison last October, the former gang boss was regularly seen in an armour-plated BMW X5 four-wheel drive owned by Moran.

Moran was high on the garda's list of serious criminals and republican subversives, although he had come to little media attention. He is understood to have owned four pubs and a security company and was from Limerick originally.

He was a cousin of the infamous Dundon-McCarthy brothers and a key member of the Limerick Murder Inc gang.

He was also heavily involved in 'dissident' republican criminal activity. At one stage gardai believed he was head of the Continuity IRA faction, running its extortion rackets and other activity.

A key figure in organised crime, Moran helped organise the murder of Limerick nightclub security manager and father-of-two Brian Fitzgerald, 32, in 2002.

The day after the murder, Moran personally collected the hitman, James Martin Cahill, who later came forward and confessed to his role in the killing.

As part of his evidence, Cahill revealed that Moran ordered him to carry out the murder, but gardai did not have enough evidence to charge the gang boss.

Gardai believe Moran was involved in the murder of the innocent rugby player, Shane Geoghegan, shot dead in mistake for another man in Limerick in November 2008.

He is known to have supplied the McCarthy-Dundons with two armour-plated bullet proof 4X4s in 2008 that the gang leaders were regularly seen driving near Limerick courthouse in full view of gardai and the judiciary.

He was also the chief suspect behind the gangland murder of drug trafficker and garda informant Declan Griffin in April 2003.

Moran lived in a heavily fortified house in Earlsfort View on the border of Clondalkin and Lucan with bulletproof windows and up to a dozen CCTV cameras mounted on the outside.

The murder puts further pressure on Gilligan, who is increasingly facing the prospect of fleeing Ireland in order to stay alive. Gardai last night said they believed the murder was directly linked to Moran's association with the drug trafficker who was trying to re-establish himself in the Dublin organised crime scene.

Unlike the botched attack on Gilligan, last night's murder was carried out with cool efficiency, gardai said. Moran was shot as he arrived at his home. The gunman was driven away and a short time later the car was found burning in Glen Vale in Lucan. Moran was pronounced dead on arrival at Tallaght Hospital.

Moran came from a traveller family background but became involved in crime and subversive activity in his 20s. He was under constant surveillance but managed to avoid convictions for any major crimes.

Gardai believe he was working in close association with Gilligan, who had developed links throughout his career with republican/criminal elements, with the intention of establishing a major criminal network in Dublin and Limerick to rival existing gangs. His death has put an end to this plan, gardai said last night.

The scene of last night's murder, at Earlsfort View, is only a mile from the John Gilligan's brother's home in the Greenfort estate in Clondalkin.

Both the attempted murder and last night's slaying are being investigated by gardai from Ronanstown Station.

The area is the centre of some of the worst gangland violence in the state.

Last month, James Talbot, 46, was shot dead at his home in the Abbeywood estate, a short distance from Moran's home.

Last Thursday night, father and son Martin and Lee Clarke, aged 53 and 27, were shot and injured outside their home in Clifden Road in Ballyfermot, about a mile from last night's killing.

Moran was also related to Melanie McCarthy, the teenager who was shot dead in Tallaght in February 2012.

Sunday Independent

http://www.sundayworld.com/top-stories/crime-desk/gilligan-is-poison-says-top-underworld-source

Dougie Moran shot as a warning to criminals to isolate John Gilligan.

Former Continuity IRA man Stephen Dougie Moran was murdered as a message to the underworld to keep away from John Gilligan. Sources say that Moran was shot dead to warn criminals not to associate with the injured drug lord and to completely isolate him.

Gilligan, who is recovering in hospital after surviving an assassination attempt himself, has been labelled ‘poison’ by underworld sources.

“He crossed the line when he murdered Veronica Guerin,” a top underworld source said. “It’s a simple as that. You don’t kill journalists. He is a dead man walking.”

Moran had acted as a bodyguard to Gilligan after a botched attempt on his life last December.

Gilligan moved in to his Lucan home for a period of time and Moran transported him to meetings in his bullet proof BMW car.

It is understood that Gilligan had made links with the notorious Dundon brothers while serving his sentence in Portlaoise Prison and turned to them when he needed help.

Moran, who was related to the Limerick thugs, had acted as an enforcer for their criminal gang and he was put in contact with Gilligan to offer him the protection he needed.

However, he hadn’t been collated with Gilligan in more recent times and the pint sized drug dealer had been using wife Geraldine and family as his refuge.

Moran’s murder came as a shock on Saturday night after he was blasted in the head outside his West Dublin home.

He was walking between his bullet proof vehicle and his bullet proof home when a gunman fired at him.

It is understood that Moran’s daughter was near the scene at the time around 7.30pm. She ran screaming to neighbours saying: “They shot my Da.”

Moran has been on the Garda raidar for years and was once the number two in the Continuity IRA. He ran extortion rackets in Dublin and collected money for ‘prisoners wives’ funds from innocent businessmen.

He prided himself on being a tough Limerick gangster and bragged about his links to the Dundon crime family.

In recent times he was working as a ‘heavy’ for a number of criminals including Gilligan.

It was Moran who collected Ger Dundon when he was released from prison in recent months. Dundon stayed at his home for a number of nights before heading to the UK where he has now linked up with his sister Annabelle.

John Gilligan was said to be a very worried man last night as he weighed up his options from his hospital bed in Blanchardstown.

It is expected that Gardai will put him under surveillance when he is released in a bid to avert more bloodshed and particularly to protect innocent people he may come into contact with.

“Nobody likes Gilligan. The Gardai are getting a hard time for protecting him in hospital and they will have to deploy teams on him when he gets out. But the fact of the matter is that Gilligan is a walking target and he could be shot anywhere. The real worry is that someone may get caught in that gunfire,” a source said.

Other criminals who have met with Gilligan since his release from Portlaoise prison now believe they could be next on a hit list of terror that has Factory John’s name right at the top.

Meanwhile Gardai were examining and collecting CCTV last night in an effort to identify the gunman who killed Moran.

A full murder investigation is underway since the shooting.

http://www.sundayworld.com/top-stories/northern-ireland/pretty-teen-charged-with-making-bombs

First photo of teenager charged with dissident bomb making.

Pretty Orla O’Hanlon is one two teenagers accused of making bombs for dissident terrorists.

The alleged gymslip bomb-maker is charged along with fellow teenager Keith McConnan 19, in connection with the discovery of a bomb making factory in south Armagh last year.

Last week she was refused Legal Aid after a heated courtroom argument between the judge and her defence counsel at Newry magistrate’s court.

O’Hanlon 18, of Tievecrom Road, Forkhill and Dundalk man McConnan are accused of making and possessing explosives with intent to endanger life or property between December 15 and December 18 last year.

O’Hanlon had been released last month on High Court bail of £25,500 with a £500 cash sum and the deeds to her father’s house being handed in to the court by way of surety.

The accused teenager, who was only two when the Good Friday Agreement was signed, has also been ordered to hand over all her travel documents and must sign in three times at a week at a PSNI station. She was also ordered not to be in contact with co-accused McConnan or a businessman named in court as ‘Oliver Treanor’.

District judge Bernie Kelly declined a Legal Aid application as the defendant lived under her parents’ roof and therefore regarded them as providing financial support for her.
Counsel for O’Hanlon reacted angrily: “Am I now being asked to do this for nothing?” he exclaimed.
O’Hanlon, who has changed her hair colour to brunette, was not in court. The pair were arrested at a house on Tievecrom Road on Wednesday, December 18 under Section 41 of the Terrorism Act.

At a previous hearing a detective constable from the PSNI’s Serious Crime Branch told district judge Eamonn King that he could connect the two teenagers to the charges.

He told the court that in a walk-in wardrobe in a bedroom officers found a timer power unit and ancillary items for the timer power unit.

”This would enable a bomb to be placed which could delay the detonation for several days.''

The detective added that in a bin a white substance was discovered which was forensically tested and found to be ammonium nitrate which he said is used for “home made explosives”.

O’Hanlon spoke openly about her family and home life during police interviews but refused to comment on anything further apart from to claim the industrial coffee grinder was used to grind down flour.

new vice doc

Yes i think the guns in this video was found and were fake.

Derry criminals are not big time in Ireland and never will be.

The Derry IRA would get their ass kicked in south Ireland all day long.

Alan Ryan had drug gangs working with him.

http://www.herald.ie/news/we-didnt-carry-out-latest-city-gang-killing-say-cira-27962149.html

There have also been unverified reports that criminal gangs across Dublin have come together to combat the extortion and intimidation tactics of dissident republicans across Dublin city. The statement from the group, calling themselves the Criminal Action Force (CAF), claims the Real IRA had extorted €425,000 since the beginning of the year.

The group also claimed they shot a member of the extortionist gang in May and executed Daniel Gaynor on August 14 this year.

CAF added that they do not have any issue with legitimate republican organisations but will use deadly force against anyone associate with the extortionist republican gang.

"We want to state categorically that we will execute any criminals, big or small, who act as collaborators with this gang.

"We are a big group and we have lots of guns and men."


This was first statement of the C.A.F. group in 2010 as we know they kill more people.

The gangs also said they would attack the leadership of the new IRA if criminals came under attack something Sean South never says.

http://www.herald.ie/news/murdered-pal-of-gilligan-chased-by-cab-for-500k-30103338.html

Murdered pal of Gilligan chased by CAB for €500k.

BY KEN FOY AND CONOR FEEHAN – 18 MARCH 2014 03:30 PM

GANGLAND fixer Stephen 'Dougie' Moran was negotiating with the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) over a tax bill of more than €500,000 in the months before his murder.

Moran – who gardai believe was murdered because of his close relationship with on-the-run drug dealer John Gilligan – was a long-term target of the CAB.

The CAB spent years investigating his business interests including his security company and involvement in the running of a number of pubs, as well as extortion rackets.

ASSASSIN

It has now emerged that high quality images of the shocking murder at the weekend were caught on the elaborate CCTV that Moran had in his heavily fortified home.

Senior sources have described the ruthless masked hitman as "an extremely fit individual" who hit him once in the head at very close range.

Moran (46) was returning home on Saturday at 7.30pm to his home at the end of the Lucan cul-de-sac, where he has lived for 10 years, when he was targeted by a lone gunman.

After Moran left his armoured BMW X5, his assassin pounced and fired at him four times.

"I heard four bangs one after the other, then there was silence, then there was another bang," one local resident told the Herald.

It has emerged that the killer had a five-second window of opportunity between the time that Moran got out of his bullet-proof vehicle and walked into his bullet-proof house.

A senior source said: "Gardai at this stage do not believe that this individual is the same Finglas criminal who tried to murder his mate Gilligan in a pub in Castleknock last December."

A Hyundai car believed to be the getaway vehicle was found on fire in nearby Glenvale.

Gardai are appealing for witnesses or anyone who may have seen any suspicious or unusual activity at Earlsfort View, Lucan, between 6pm and 7.30pm on Saturday, or in the days prior to the shooting, to come forward.

They also wish to speak to anyone who may have seen a vehicle being driven at speed or erratically on the Balgaddy Road, adjacent to Ballyowen Park, or a vehicle being parked or set on fire at Glenvale in Lucan.

http://www.herald.ie/news/gilligan-flees-to-amsterdam-leaving-35k-bill-30103292.html

Gilligan flees to Amsterdam leaving €35k bill.

BY CONOR FEEHAN AND KEN FOY – 18 MARCH 2014 03:30 PM

FLEEING gangster John Gilligan's ultimate plan is to make his way to Amsterdam to hide from gangsters here that want him dead.

The criminal fled to the UK in the early hours of yesterday after a failed assassination attempt earlier this month.

Gilligan checked out of hospital in a wheelchair looking gaunt and shaken after a two week stay, which is estimated to have cost taxpayers €35,000 in medical and garda security costs.

It is believed the Saturday night murder of Stephen 'Dougie' Moran – his driver and bodyguard – prompted the convicted drug trafficker to leave the country in fear for his life.

It was reported this morning that Gilligan will ultimately resettle in the Netherlands, which is home to a number of Irish criminals.

Gardai are investigating whether Gilligan is being put-up by his associate, Troy Jordan, who is understood to have a house near the English town of Blackpool.

The drug dealer has a number of allies across the water including the McCarthy/Dundon gang as well as friends and associates in Birmingham.

The gangster was rushed to a Blanchardstown hospital on Saturday March 1 after being gunned down at his brother's home in Clondalkin.

The total bill of €35,000 for Gilligan's hospital stay and security does not include surgery and theatre costs.

While in hospital Gilligan was operated on for injuries to his chest, stomach and leg. He also received stitches to a wound on his head after being grazed by a bullet in the attack which followed a family christening.

Gilligan was flanked by armed gardai just after midnight on Sunday and escorted to Dublin Port where he fled the country on a slow boat to Holyhead.

PENNILESS

Sources say that it is still "unclear" where Gilligan – who is almost penniless – will stay in the UK. It is believed his final destination is Amsterdam.

"There are a few possibilities but Jordan is definitely one of them," a source told the Herald.

Jordan was a founder director of Viper Debt Recovery and Repossession Services, established by veteran criminal Martin 'The Viper' Foley in 2005. He resigned as director in 2010.

In 2005, the Criminal Assets Bureau won a tax judgement against Jordan for €800,000, who has been spending his time between his Lancashire house in England, his home in Allenwood, Co Kildare, and Spain's Costa-Del-Crime.

abe the movie speaks for itself. The drug dealers were terrified of the IRA and were terrified of Alan Ryan in Dublin too.

You can get your cheerleader pom poms out for the dime a dozen drug dealers all you want. They are nowhere near as powerful as the IRA and what do you know about Derry?

Are the UCA considered a bigger security threat than the IRA? Most people outside Dublin have never heard of them they are a bunch of bums just like Martin Cahill you have an agenda abe and it's becoming clearer and clearer you are a fanboy for dime a dozen drug dealers whoopee doo! Good luck to you abe keep printing your lame propaganda from that reporter who tried to incriminate a frail old nun

Orla is innocent leave her out of this abe. She has done nothing wrong I'm sick of reading these ugly slurs.

I know this Sean South,

They included a Glock hand gun, five camouflage or paramilitary-style uniforms, balaclavas, a mobile phone, a 2-way radio, four replica AK 47 rifles, a de-activated AK47 rifle, a blank firing revolver and a blank Glock hand-gun.

He was also charged with having an adapted blank firing Glock handgun with intent to endanger life and with having a firearm in suspicious circumstances.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-foyle-west-19012352

I did not say other wise thank you.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/l...s-30105009.html

Dissident bombers 'planned to open fire on officers.

BY BRIAN ROWAN – 19 MARCH 2014

A dissident terror faction says it planned to open fire on police during Friday night's mortar attack on a PSNI Land Rover.

The claim was made in a detailed statement by the group in a contact with this newspaper.

Dissidents claim the mortar struck the police vehicle – but this had already been dismissed by a PSNI source, who said only minimal damage had been caused by shrapnel.

The attack happened on the Falls Road late on Friday night. The device, triggered by command wire, caused a loud explosion heard across Belfast.

"The IRA had a second active service unit with automatic weapons close by with the intention of engaging [police] personnel who exited the vehicles," the dissident statement read.

There is no way of verifying this claim.

On Friday night, West Belfast MP Paul Maskey criticised the PSNI response time, but this statement from the dissidents, if true, underscores the need for a cautious police response in such situations.

The type of mortar used on Friday is known to be part of the dissident arsenal. Similar devices have been seized in police operations in north Belfast and Londonderry.

Dissidents described the bomb as an "explosively formed projectile" and repeated an earlier claim that it contained explosives from a new Semtex supply. The statement also threatened further attacks on the PSNI – describing officers as "legitimate targets".

In what was a clear reference to the killing of police constable Ronan Kerr, the statement read: "The IRA has demonstrated its ability to execute PSNI personnel in the past and will continue to do so in the future."

Last night Mr Maskey, in whose constituency the attack took place, said the attack had been reckless.

"The Falls Road was very busy at the time of the attack and an innocent family's car was damaged. This family was very shaken up. Is this group now saying they are a legitimate target?" he asked.

"There was a pregnant woman who had to attend hospital in the wake of the attack – was she a legitimate target? They have to answer these questions."

The DUP's Jonathan Craig said the explosion had been indiscriminate.

"It comes as no surprise that these people are trying to take on the mantle of the IRA. They are rebels without a cause," he said. "There is no community support for them, no matter which community you mean.

http://www.herald.ie/news/mr-big-smashed-car-window-and-pointed-handgun-at-ryan-pal-30107320.html

Mr Big 'smashed car window and pointed handgun at Ryan pal.

BY KEN FOY CRIME CORRESPONDENT – 19 MARCH 2014 03:30 PM

ONE of Ireland's most notorious gang bosses has been placed under investigation after allegedly pointing a gun at a friend of the murdered Real IRA leader Alan Ryan.

The criminal, known as "Mr Big", is said to have spotted Darragh Evans (24) sitting in his car in Dolphin's Barn last Friday.

He is alleged to have smashed the front window before brandishing the weapon at Evans, who fled the area.

Gardai went to the scene after being alerted, but when they spoke with Evans at a house in Crumlin where he has been staying he refused to provide them with a statement.

It is understood Evans has "gone to ground" since the alleged incident and is no longer living in the Crumlin area.

Officers have yet to recover the car he was in, but gardai, as well as the Organised Crime and Special Detective units, are attempting to get to the bottom of the alleged threat.

VOLATILE

A source told the Herald: "This incident has led to an increase in tensions throughout Dublin, and it shows that the gang boss has become extremely reckless and volatile.

"His gang has suffered huge losses in terms of the seizure of large amounts of drugs from them over the past year.

"He is also the current focus of major garda attention, and the feeling is that Mr Big is cracking under the pressure."

It is not known why the criminal, who is believed to be involved in a number of bitter gang feuds in the south of the city, was in the Dolphin's Barn area on Friday, especially because it is miles away from his base on the northside of Dublin.

But a source said: "He is no stranger to the locality, and in fact he was arrested in nearby James Street in December 2012 when he was on way to whack a criminal rival."

The gang boss, who cannot be named for legal reasons because he is currently facing serious charges before the courts, is suspected of ordering the murder of RIRA chief Alan Ryan.

Since the killing, gardai have seized more than €10m worth of drugs from his gang and a number of its senior members have been charged with significant criminal offences.

Last October, Darragh Evans and Alan Ryan's brother Vincent Ryan (22) were cleared of possessing an assault rifle and a handgun by the direction of the Special Criminal Court.

FIREARMS

The non-jury court ruled that there was an insufficient evidential basis upon which a jury, properly directed, could find Ryan and Evans guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

Having been in custody since September 2012 on the firearms charges, both Ryan and Evans walked out the front door of the Criminal Courts of Justice after the decision.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/debate...n-30038470.html

Dissident republicans: They have capacity to kill, but will never win.

BY LIAM CLARKE – 25 FEBRUARY 2014

Mr Micawber, one of Charles Dickens' most famous characters, was always broke and permanently lived in the expectation that "something will turn up".

The remaining dissident republican groups seem a lot like a murderous version of David Copperfield's poor Micawber.

The PSNI believes that the dissidents will continue on with their campaign, tenacious but without prospect of success.

They hope for what the police term "a windfall".

They hope the security forces will shoot someone and cause an outcry.

They hope that the Stormont Executive will collapse at the next stand-off, Sinn Fein will be proved wrong all along and that power will be on the streets.

The problem is that even if a windfall lands in their lap, they are currently in no shape to take advantage of it.

In the past couple of years they had several opportunities to reach an international stage but succeeded in none of them.

They made little or no impact during the G8, Derry/Londonderry's city of Culture, the Haass talks, the Queen's visit and the World Police and Fire Games to name just a few potential opportunities to grab the limelight.

One reason for their failure to take the initiative is that their supply of weapons and useable explosives is fast diminishing.

Another is that the police and intelligence agencies are more than one step ahead of them.

Efforts to restock abroad have ended in stings by intelligence agencies that take their money, arrest their members and provide nothing in return.

Attempts to find a foreign sponsor have also put them into the hands of their enemies.

They embraced Dave Rupert, a six-foot native American who pledged an unlikely allegiance to the Irish cause and offered to fund them.

Few were surprised when he turned out to be an agent for both the FBI and MI5.

Far from being a millionaire, he was a broke businessman trying to get himself out of trouble with the taxman.

They have little support, scarcely enough people to hide their dwindling arsenal or provide alibis. When their prisoners go on hunger strike or protests of one sort or another it makes little impact, unless the case of an individual is taken up by Sinn Fein or the SDLP.

The idea of winning elections is no more than a distant dream. They are a discordant band playing nobody's tune and every act of violence further isolates them from the community.

This would have a comic side if their intent wasn't so deadly and any results so tragic.

Even a small band of desperados can occasionally kill or maim, or destroy property, if they are persistent enough.

What they can't do is achieve any political objective, never mind win.

The embittered leadership can send young men and women foolish enough to listen to it to their graves, or more likely these days, to jail.

It surely time for these pointless campaigns to be called off before they ruin more lives.

Top Republican shot in North Dublin today mate of Alan Ryan.

Photo of the man on the ground.

http://cdn4.independent.ie/incoming/article30113324.ece/ALTERNATES/w620/shooting.jpg

http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0321/603662-dublin-shooting/


Man injured in shooting near Dublin creche.

A man has been shot and seriously injured in Donaghmede in Dublin.

The shooting happened near a creche on Holywell Avenue at around 9am.

It is believed the man was shot in the head as he was dropping children at the creche.

He has been taken to Beaumont Hospital, where he is in a critical condition.

Gardaí believe the attack was carried out by a lone gunman, who left the scene on foot.

The scene has been preserved.

Gardaí are seeking to identify witnesses and are appealing for anyone with information to contact them.

The man, who is in his 30s, is known to gardaí as a dissident republican.

He had been warned by gardaí his life was in danger after a previous shooting.

He was an associate of former Real IRA leader Alan Ryan, who was shot dead in Dublin in 2012.

The man is wanted by the PSNI for questioning about the murder of two men in Belfast in 2007.

http://www.sundayworld.com/top-stories/crime-desk/man-shot-near-creche-in-dublin-gun-attack

Notorious gangland figure 'Fat Deccy' Smith shot while dropping his son to crèche in Dublin.

Well-known criminal Declan 'Fat Deccy' Smith is in a critical condition in hospital after he was shot this morning while dropping his son to creche.

31 year-old Fat Deccy Smith was leaving his young son to the Little Rainbow's crèche on Hollywell Road in Donaghmede when he was shot at around 9.10am. Sources say he was approached by a loan gunman who fired one shot from a shotgun at close range.

He has been taken to hospital and his condition is described as critical.

Witnesses say the man was shot in the head as children were being dropped off to the crèche by parents.

Gardai are currently at the scene of the shooting and the children who attend the creche are understood to have been sent home for the day. Locals say they are shocked that a gunman would strike while innocent youngsters were being taken to pre-school for the day.

One witness said: "It is shocking to think this can happen outside a creche. What if he missed who he was shooting at and hit a child?".

Fat Deccy Smith is originally from Belfast. He is a well-known member of the Real IRA and was one of the best friends of slain RIRA boss Alan Ryan who was shot dead in September 2012.

Following Ryan's murder there was an internal feud within the Real IRA and Smith was shot in the leg in January 2013 after attempting to take control of the dissident group following Ryan's murder.

He was found dumped in a field in Saggart, Co. Dublin. Although a man was arrested close to the scene no charges were ever brought in the case.

Smith is wanted for questioning by the PSNI in connection with a double murder in Belfast in 2007. After the murders he fled to Dublin and became heavily involved with Alan Ryan and his crew.

However there were serious tensions between himself and his Northern comrades after he allegedly stole £40,000 of the terror group's money to fund his move down south.

http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/donaghmede-creche-shooting-notorious-criminal-3268313

Donaghmede creche shooting: Notorious criminal Deccy Smith begged gunman 'don't shoot' before being blasted in face.

Shooting took place at around 9am on the Holywell Avenue, Donaghmede


Notorious criminal 'Fat Deccy' Smith was blasted in the head in broad daylight outside a creche begged for his life screaming: "Don't shoot."

The well-known dissident Republican Smith pleaded with a lone shooter not to blast him as he was shot in the face at point blank range just minutes after dropping his toddler son off at the nursery.

The attack took place during rush hour traffic at around 9am on the Holywell Avenue, Donaghmede.

Smith is known to Gardai and was warned his life before today's attack that his life was in danger.

Gardai believe he was approached by a lone gunman who fled on foot after shooting him in the head.

21/03/14 Blood on the road at The scene of a shooting outside a creche on Holywell Avenmue, Donaghmede, Dublin this morning.. Picture Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin.
Security sources have said that the Smith has been shot before and that he was an associate of slain Republican Alan Ryan.

He was being treated at the scene before being taken by ambulance to Beaumont Hospital.

http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/trinity-college-student-ursula-shannon-3250393

Trinity gun girl Ursula Shannon pals up with IRA murderer Rose Lynch.

The two women have become so close that they now communicate in Irish so other inmates can’t understand them

Ursula Shannon
IRA assassin Rose Lynch and Trinity gun girl Ursula Shannon have become as “thick as thieves” behind bars.

Deluded thug Lynch, 51, who was jailed for life last year after she admitted shooting David Darcy, took the 30-year-old under her wing after she was caged for six years for the possession of two firearms last month.

The two women, both on the E2 landing of Limerick Prison, have become so close that they now communicate in Irish so other inmates can’t understand them.

A prison source last night said the pair are in cells next to each other.

The source added: “The two women have become best friends since Ursula was sentenced and placed in Limerick Prison a few weeks ago.

“Lynch really took care of her when she arrived.

“They are in cells next to each other. They are both republicans and share similar views and have a lot in common.

“They spend a lot of time together chatting in each other’s cells. They are as thick as thieves.”

Lynch was jailed in April last year after being found guilty of gunning down innocent delivery driver Mr Darcy as he sat in his van in Ballyfermot, West Dublin, in November 2011.

It is believed she was acting on false information when she blasted her teh dad of two, thinking wrongly he had been involved in the murder of Continuity IRA chief Liam Kenny, 53, in June 2011.

Gardai told her trial Mr Darcy was a good man who was only going about his daily routine and “wholly unconnected with unlawful activity”.

Meanwhile, PHD student Shannon, a leading figure in socialist republican group Eirigi, was found with the weapons in November 2012 during a Garda operation targeting dissident republicans.

Last February a non-jury trial heard how cops had been tipped-off about a robbery on a licensed arms dealership in Co Offaly.

It was claimed Shannon, John McGreal, 37, Colin Brady, 24, and 34-year-old John Troy were wearing wigs when armed officers swooped outside the premises.

A 9mm Walther P5 pistol and ZGJY stun gun were recovered.

A Taurus 9mm also seized had been used in a 2002 murder, although there was no suggestion the defendants were involved in that offence.

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/don...e-30113809.html

Don’t shoot, don’t shoot’ – criminal’s plea to gunman outside crèche
‘Fat Deccy’ Smith fights for his life after being shot in the face while leaving child to care

KEN FOY AND LUKE BYRNE – PUBLISHED 21 MARCH 2014 01:27 PM

A NOTORIOUS criminal was shot outside a Dublin creche this morning.

Declan ‘Fat Deccy’ Smith is fighting for his life after he was blasted in the face at 9am.

The 31-year-old gangster cried “don't shoot, don't shoot” before he was shot from close range by a lone gunman. Our pictures show the victim being treated by paramedics moments after the shocking attack.

“He was lying on the ground. When I turned him over his face was practically gone,” one witness told the Herald.

Smith had just dropped a child off at the Little Rainbow’s creche at Holywell Avenue in Donaghmede.

The masked gunman fled the bloody scene on foot Smith who is originally from Belfast is a notorious IRA criminal who was close pals with slain Real IRA terror chief Alan Ryan who was shot dead in September, 2012.

After Ryan's murder, Smith was thrown out of the IRA and was the victim of a "punishment" shooting in Saggart, south Co Dublin, in January of last year.

Gardai believe that this morning's shocking shooting was carried out by a dangerous criminal gang who are based in the Priorswood area of the capital.

Smith and Alan Ryan previously kidnapped and savagely assaulted a senior member of this gang in an unsuccessful attempt to steal guns from the gangster just weeks before Ryan was shot dead.

Sources say that the gang vowed revenge for this incident and gardai are working on the theory that this was the motive for this morning's hit.

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Paramedics attend to injured shooting victim outside creche in Donaghmede this morning
Another theory being explored is if Smith – who was living in the Coolock area in recent weeks – was targeted by the ‘Mr Big' drugs gang who were involved in a bizarre firearms incident with one of

Smith's pals in Dolphin's Barn last Friday.

After this morning's horrific gun attack, paramedics advised a local woman and a local man how to administer first aid to the victim over the phone, before arriving the scene.

“A woman ran up to me and said that someone has been shot.

“I've been in situations before where someone has collapsed with a heart attack so I went over to help.

“He was lying on the ground. When I turned him over his face was practically gone.

“He was gasping for breath, so that's why we turned him over, to get his face out of the pool of blood,” the man, who did not wish to be named said.

“She said the man ran up to him and he cried ‘don't shoot' twice, before a loud bang,” he added.

Another local woman said: “My grandkids are in that crèche. They're still there we haven't been able to get them out yet.

“I heard a loud boom but I didn't see what happened. I just thought it was the bin men throwing a bin on the ground.”

She added: “I went to the front room to look and saw the bins hadn't moved but I didn't think much of it.”

Paramedics rushed the victim by ambulance to Beaumont Hospital where he is in a serious condition.

Gardai from Coolock cordoned off the area for a technical examination.

A large pool of blood, beside the grey hooded track suit top Mr Smith was wearing, were clearly visible at the grisly scene.

The victim's top was removed by paramedics at the scene.

He had been driving an 04D registered Vauxhall, which was still at the scene today.

The Herald previously revealed that Alan Ryan was on his way to see ‘Fat Deccy' Smith when he was gunned down in Clongriffin, North Dublin in September, 2012.

Smith was present in the horrible aftermath of the targeted assassination and stood watching as paramedics desperately tried in vain to save Ryan's life.

He was prominent among the mourners at Ryan’s paramilitary style funeral.

Following Ryan's death, Smith attempted to take over the Real IRA's operations but ended up being kicked out of the organisation with weeks.

Some of Smith's associates are wanted for questioning by the PSNI about the murders of Edward Burns, 36, and Joe Jones, 38.

The pair, who were members of the Continuity IRA in Belfast, were killed within an hour of each other in March 2007 in a bitter dispute involving stolen cash and missing weapons.

70% of the Belfast Telegraph's readership are Ulster Unionists abe, so for balance it is important to remember they support the British crown and pander to their majority Unionist readership.

Win abe, they said we could never win in 1916 but we did. The fighting Irish have won back most of our nation only six counties remain under British tyranny.

The biggest joke is that they are now criticizing Russia for doing exactly the same thing they did to the six counties. Gerrymandered an illegal majority in an illegal occupation hey, how abouts Ireland partitions South Boston and Woodlawn they
have about as much right to do that as the Brits did

Hague said the whole world regarded the referendum, in which the majority of Crimeans voted to leave Ukraine and rejoin Russia, as illegal.

Come on abe, if you don't tell me this is British hypocrisy at its finest I don't know what is. The Americans spanked the Brits we're Irish and we'll fight to the end. One day Ireland will be a nation ours once again and if you don't support that objective you are clearly exposed abe, it is clear you are a West Brit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snDrwc39rhY

How the IRA humiliated the Brits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jtyh3xzkNAU

abe thinks a load of coke snorting bums could defeat the IRA. The UCA are barely on the radar. On one post you said they could take on the IRA in the north now you seem to have backtracked after hearing how terrified the drug dealing bums were in Derry

The UCA defeat the IRA? Stop with the comedy abe

The one thing I hate about the Brits is that they targeted Irish funerals. With collusion with the RUC and the British army a grenade attack left women and young children injured and dead. Run away? I don't think so even with the scumbag shooting at them the IRA still tracked him down and gave him the beating of his life. Another myth dies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEc2QvvCeQk
Attacking funerals that says it all about the Brits. The Irish would never do that.


Here two SAS men the guys Five felonies said could have wiped the IRA out easily disrespect another funeral aiming to kill more people at a vulnerable event. Well, they made that choice but again, don't see the Irish running anywhere.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJQyncWuoqc

http://www.herald.ie/news/gun-victims-fac-e-is-blasted-off-30115890.html

BY KEN FOY CRIME CORRESPONDENT – 22 MARCH 2014 03:30 PM

A 31-YEAR-OLD dissident Republican who was shot outside a creche in north Dublin was "clinging to life" in hospital last night.

Notorious thug 'Fat Deccy' Smith was in an induced coma in Beaumont Hospital with "extensive damage to his face" after the shotgun attack at Holywell Avenue in Donaghmede at around 9am.

A senior source told the Herald: "He is clinging to life at the moment. His face is badly disfigured and his fate is now in the lap of the gods".

Witnesses at the scene told how the victim's face was "practically gone" after the daylight shooting.

Parents have described the "pandemonium and shock" in the aftermath of the shooting outside the centre.

Some parents were bringing their children to the Little Rainbow's creche when Smith was blasted at close range by a lone gunman after he dropped a child off.

The masked gunman fled the scene on foot.

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One mother, Louise Mulligan, said she was with her son when she encountered the bloody scene – but didn't witness the incident itself.

"The man was still lying on the ground when I got around the corner, it wasn't pleasant," she said. "After that then it was just pandemonium and shock really."

It's understood the masked gunman fled the bloody scene on foot.

Belfast man Smith, who was a close pal of slain Real IRA terror chief Alan Ryan, had been just living in nearby Coolock after spending more than a year on the run. He had been shot in the leg by his former IRA associates in Saggart, south Co Dublin, after an internal cash row in the dissident Republican mob.

Smith was hated by the feared 'Mr Big' drugs gang who gardai suspect murdered his mate Ryan but they are not the chief suspects for yesterday's reckless murder bid.

However, the underworld was rife with speculation last night that Mr Big had ordered the hit.

Gardai think it is "very unlikely" that he was targeted by other dissident Republicans.

Instead, sources say it is "most likely" that the crew involved in the assassination attempt are a gang from north Dublin who are involved in armed robberies from cash vans. Yesterday, the Herald revealed that Smith and Ryan previously kidnapped and savagely tortured a senior member of this gang in an unsuccessful attempt to steal guns from the gangster just weeks before Ryan was shot dead.

Sources say that the gang vowed revenge for this incident and gardai are working on the theory that this was the motive for the shocking shooting.

It has emerged that senior members of this gang have been "looking for Smith" for months when they learnt that he had moved back living in the Coolock area in recent weeks.

Some of Smith's associates are wanted for questioning by the PSNI about the murders of Edward Burns (36) and Joe Jones (38).

The pair, who were members of the Continuity IRA in Belfast, were killed in March 2007 in a dispute involving stolen cash and missing weapons.

Jones was decapitated and his body abandoned in North Belfast.

Since that murder, Smith was forced to flee the North but has continued to be embroiled in bitter criminal feuds here after "Ryan took him under his wing".

The Herald previously revealed that Ryan was on his way to see 'Fat Deccy' Smith when he was gunned down in Clongriffin in September, 2012.

Smith was photographed at that murder scene which looked eerily similar to the scene at the shocking attack yesterday.

KFOY@HERALD.IE

I think you must ask Republicans on north side of Dublin.

Everyone knows what you bring to the debate on this thread i don't need to say.

From far away pastures cheerleaders like yourself Sean South don't care to see rivers of other people's blood spilled once it is not your own.

You say nobody knows who the U.C.A ARE ? they have killed more people then any Republican group the last year or so.

Criminal Action Force have shot or killed more people over the last four years then all the Republican groups combined.

I think it is about time you went back over all the attacks on C.A.F. THREAD AND THIS U.C.A. THREAD FOR THE FACTS.

You over and over Sean bring people back years to show youtube videos could you start from 2010 thanks.

http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/crime/creche-hit-dissident-declan-fat-3270063


Shooting of well-known dissident as he dropped son at creche branded a "new low" for gangland criminals.

Deccy Smith being treated at the scene by paramedics
The shooting of a well known Dissident just seconds after he dropped his young son to creche has been branded "a new low" for gangland thugs.

Declan "Fat Deccy" Smith was blasting by a gunman as he left Little Rainbows Creche in Holywell Avenue in Donaghmede in Dublin.

And now it has emerged that staff tried desperately to distract traumatised kids, including Mr Smith's toddler son, as paramedics fought to save his life on the road outside.

And shocked onlookers shrieked in terror as the true extent of the bloody horror unfolded in morning rush hour.

21/03/14 Blood on the road at The scene of a shooting outside a creche on Holywell Avenmue, Donaghmede, Dublin this morning.. Picture Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin.
Toddlers, including the victim's son, were inside the packed Dublin creche when dissident Declan “Fat Deccy” Smith, 31, was shot at point-blank range in the face.

Witnesses said the top gangland figure begged for his life screaming “Don’t shoot, don’t shoot” before he was blasted with a shotgun.

21/03/14 The scene of a shooting outside a creche on Holywell Avenmue, Donaghmede, Dublin this morning.. Picture Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin.
A source added: “If he pulls through it’ll be a miracle, his face was practically blown off.”

“He was in a bad way when he arrived in hospital so it’s touch and go.

“The gunman was brazen to walk up to him in broad daylight and shoot and then just escape on foot but that’s the calibre of what you’re dealing with here. "Shooting outside a creche is definitely a new low and this gun nut put innocent kids and their parents’ lives in danger.

“But Deccy was a sitting duck, he was a marked man with plenty of enemies and when your card is marked they will find you.”

21/03/14 The scene of a shooting outside a creche on Holywell Avenmue, Donaghmede, Dublin this morning.. Picture Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin.
One woman, who lives just yards from scene and whose three grandchildren were in the creche, told the Irish Mirror she was sickened by the gruesome attack.

She revealed: “I’m just in shock that something so terrible could happen

right on my doorstep and so close to my grandchildren and lots of other innocent children.

“I heard a bang but it’s bin day so I just presumed it was the binmen and next thing I knew there were sirens and gardai and paramedics outside the creche and I automatically felt sick.

“My son and daughter were worried sick initially but we phoned the creche staff straight away and they assured us that the kids were all OK.

“So their day has just gone on as normal but I’m looking forward to giving them a big hug and a kiss.

“I read that the victim was from Belfast and that he was known to gardai but regardless of what he has done, it is wrong to shoot anyone in front of a creche full of kids.”

Worried parents pick up their children from the creche yesterday after shooting
Some concerned parents started arriving shortly after 11am to take their kids home and one little girl with tears in her eyes sobbed to her dad: “I saw an ambulance.”

One parent who didn’t want to be named said: “It’s nothing. My son is OK and that’s the main thing. He saw nothing and I don’t want him to know.”

It was business as usual at the nursery despite the early morning horror – and apart from the police cordons, the only sign of disruption was a hand-written note on the back entrance of the Little Rainbows creche which read: “Please call the creche when you get to the gate.”

Smith was fighting for his life in Beaumont Hospital last night after suffering horrific injuries in the savage and brazen daylight shooting outside the nursery full of children.

Gardai are probing whether an old enemy of Smith and Ryan may have been behind the hit, or a dangerous drug gang who got in a fight with one of Smith’s pals just last week.

“Fat Deccy”, a known dissident republican from West Belfast, moved to the Irish capital in the wake of the brutal slaying of Joe Jones and Ed Burns in March 2007.

Declan "Deccy" Smith
The two men, who were members of the Continuity IRA, were murdered over an apparent split within the organisation and the alleged removal of guns from a weapons dump.

They were killed within an hour of each other.

Eddie Burns, 36, was savagely beaten before being shot. His body was dumped in the Bog Meadows, close to Milltown Cemetery in West Belfast.

The second victim Joe Jones, 38, was shot in the back of the head. He was then decapitated with a shovel and his body was abandoned in an alleyway in North Belfast area of Ardoyne where both men lived.

No one has ever been convicted of the murders and their families have fought a long campaign to bring their killers to justice.

Another man linked to the murders is believed to be living in Castlebellingham, Co Louth.

Smith moved to Dublin and became a close pal of Real IRA mobster Ryan, who was shot dead in September 2012.

But he was kicked out of that gang and months later was shot in the leg by his own henchmen in Saggart, South Dublin.

That followed a punishment-style gun attack on alleged Real IRA man, Nathan Kinsella, who was kneecapped in November 2012.

Smith was then warned by gardai his life was in danger – and yesterday his enemies caught up with him as he dropped his toddler son off at the Little Rainbows Creche on Holywell Avenue.

Forensic teams scoured the area for clues as gardai checked hedges and bushes around the creche for evidence and crucially the weapon involved in the shooting.

Shortly after midday officers also began door-to-door enquiries and checked under cars and inside bins close to the scene of the brutal attack.

Smith had driven his son to creche in an 04D registered Vauxhall, which was removed from the scene yesterdayafternoon.

The grey-hooded track suit top he was wearing was also clearly visible at the grisly scene as paramedics had to cut it off as they fought to save his life.

He was treated at the scene and then taken by ambulance to Beaumont Hospital where his condition was last night described as serious.

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/creche-gun-attack-linked-to-kneecapping-30115222.html


Creche gun attack linked to knee-capping.

TOM BRADY, LUKE BYRNE AND EMMA JANE HADE – PUBLISHED 22 MARCH 2014 02:30 AM

A BID to murder a senior dissident republican figure outside a creche is believed to be linked to a knee-capping incident earlier this month.

Declan Smith, who was a close associate of slain Real IRA boss Alan Ryan, was gunned down minutes after leaving his child to a creche on Dublin's northside.

Smith (32) was hit in the head by a single shotgun blast and last night was in a critical condition at Beaumont Hospital where he underwent surgery.

Gardai said the city's gunmen had plumbed new depths of depravity with the attack.

Parents watched in horror as Smith, who was known as Fat Deccy, fell to the ground in a pool of blood after he had brought his child into the Little Rainbows creche at Holywell Avenue in Donaghmede at around 9am yesterday.

As he walked away from the creche, a lone gunman ran up close to him and opened fire before fleeing on foot.

Yesterday a steady stream of stunned parents arrived at the creche to collect their children following the shooting.

A staff member at the creche said staff had phoned all of the children's parents to inform them of the attack.

One grandmother, who lives nearby, said: "My two grandchildren are in the creche. We only just heard.

"It's hard to believe that someone could unload a gun outside a creche like that. There were kids inside. They could have seen it or been hurt," she said.

A local woman said that her uncle had children in the creche and at first she feared that he was the victim.

"My uncle has children there and he has the same kind of shoes as the man that was shot. I thought it was my uncle, so I called him. It wasn't, thank God," she said.

VEHICLE

Gardai believe an accomplice was waiting nearby in a getaway vehicle.

Officers said last night that Smith had built up a list of enemies and had been warned by detectives his life was in danger.

He had been involved in rows with other former associates of Ryan since the terrorist boss was shot dead in 2012 but had also fallen foul of a number of criminal "heavies".

Senior officers said last night they had not yet ruled out any options but were looking closely at a possible connection between the creche shooting and the knee-capping of a builder in Finglas more than a fortnight ago.

In that incident, Nicholas Duffy (40) was shot in both knees and both ankles after being abducted near the Church of the Annunciation at Cardiffsbridge Road in Finglas. He was bundled into a car, taken to a house and tied up and interrogated for more than an hour, before being dumped on a green area near Kilshane Road.

Gardai suspect that the gunmen involved in that incident are part of the same gang as yesterday's hitman.

Mr Duffy is the brother of Hubert Duffy, who is at present on bail awaiting trial in the Special Criminal Court on a charge of membership of an illegal organisation.

Smith had also been knee-capped in January last year. He was found at Fairgreen in Saggart, Co Dublin, with a gunshot wound to his leg and a senior dissident figure from Northern Ireland was later arrested and questioned about the incident.

Originally from west Belfast, Smith moved across the Border after a series of rows between dissident groups and spent some time in Mountmellick, Co Laois.

More recently, he had been living at an address in Coolock on the northside of Dublin.

Irish Independent

abe, you're the cheerleader for a load of drug dealing bums, not me. They are a dime a dozen. I don't like to see any violence but I can relate to people who actually believe in something like Alan Ryan than just another band of dime a dozen bums.

You said they had the capability to take it to the IRA in the north. Yet evidence clearly shows the drug dealers in Derry quaking in their boots.

You said they had the capability to take it to the IRA in the north. Yet evidence clearly shows the drug dealers in Derry quaking in their boots. [/quot

Sorry Sean this is what i said thank you.

Yes i think the guns in this video was found and were fake.

Derry criminals are not big time in Ireland and never will be.

The Derry IRA would get their ass kicked in south Ireland all day long.

Alan Ryan had drug gangs working with him.


Now move along Sean.