http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/crime/alan-ryan-gang-flee-hiding-3273425

Alan Ryan gang flee into hiding after “Fat Deccy” is shot.

Declan "Deccy" Smith
Terrified members of slain RIRA boss Alan Ryan’s gang are in hiding after the gun attack on Declan “Fat Deccy” Smith.

Leading cronies of the once ruthless criminal outfit have gone to ground following the shooting as they fear they may be next.

It is believed old scores are now being settled against the once-feared gang and a hit list has been drawn up to take some of them out.

A source said last night: “Ryan’s gang was once the most feared in Dublin.

“Since he was murdered members have left and set up their own splinter groups.

“The majority of their power is gone. They don’t possess the same level of control and fear they once did.

“Following the attack on Smith a number of key members went into hiding in West Dublin. They fear they could be next. They used to have the protection of the RIRA in Belfast but they have even washed their hands of them now. It’s crazy to think that a gang that once ruled Dublin with an iron fist are now in hiding and being hunted. How the tide has turned.”

Deccy Smith being treated at the scene by paramedics
Thug Smith, 31, was blasted in the face at 9am on Friday after he had dropped his toddler son off at the Little Rainbow’s Creche at Holywell Avenue in Donaghmede, North Dublin.

The gangster pleaded with the gunman and shouted, “Don’t shoot!” before he was hit from close range by the lone assailant.

The masked gunman then fled on foot.

His target was treated at the scene before being taken to Beaumont Hospital where he is in critical condition.

Smith, who is originally from Belfast, was close pals with Ryan who was shot dead in September 2012.

After his murder, Smith was thrown out of the IRA and was the victim of a punishment shooting in Saggart, Co Dublin, in January last year.

It is believed Friday’s attempt on his life was carried out by members of a Traveller gang based in Coolock, North Dublin.

Slain pal: Alan Ryan
One theory is the attack was in revenge for an alleged assault carried out alongside Ryan in a failed bid to steal guns from a senior gangland figure.

At the time, members of the gang vowed revenge on Smith at any cost.

That says it all, a gang that "once ruled Dublin". Since the death of Alan Ryan they have been cut loose from the IRA hence they are easy targets.

Alan Ryan was a decent fella but the bums and hangers on in his gang were no better than the dime a dozen drug dealers that would never have had the courage to try and throw him a beating one on one in a fist fight.

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."

I don't need to say any more Sean first statement of Criminal Action Force.

First attack on Alan Ryan and I.R.A. Sunday 25 July 2010.

Gardaí investigating the shooting of three people at a Dublin pub are trying to establish if it is connected to a dispute between criminals and former IRA members.

Look at video Sean.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0726/133764-fairview/

If anything Sean the I.R.A. now know that the criminals attacked Republicans and were in the right so the I.R.A. fucked the Ryan group out.

One thing i do agree with you on Sean is the U.C.A OR C.A.F.groups do get different types of media exposure i mean a top Republican is after getting shot in Dublin and know one in the press has said anything on the gangs.

Ok i am of to have me some BOXCAR WILLIE - Walbash Cannonball.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9hs7UO91WA

http://www.herald.ie/news/fat-deccy-lost-eye-cheek-and-jaw-in-creche-gun-attack-30120020.html

Fat Deccy lost eye, cheek and jaw in creche gun attack.

BY EMMA JANE HADE – 24 MARCH 2014 03:30 PM

GANGSTER Declan 'Fat Deccy' Smith remained in a critical condition today in a Dublin hospital after the attempt on his life that saw half his face shot off.

The 31-year-old was gunned down outside a creche in the northside of the city shortly after nine o'clock on Friday morning. He lost his left eye, cheek and jaw in the daylight attack.

He had just dropped his son off at the door of Little Rainbows childcare centre in Holywell Road, Donaghmede, when he was blasted in the face by a balaclava-wearing thug.

Smith was only feet from his parked car when he was approached by the gunman.

The would-be assassin pointed the sawn-off shotgun towards his face and shot at close range.

COMA

Smith was transferred shortly afterwards to Beaumont Hospital where he underwent emergency surgery.

He has been placed in an induced coma, but it is possible that he could remain indefinitely on a life-support machine. He is under armed guard.

The Belfast native was known to be a close friend of the murdered Real IRA leader Alan Ryan. The Herald had previously revealed that Ryan was on route to visit Smith when he was gunned down in Clongriffin 18 months ago.

In the wake of Ryan's death, Smith had attempted to fill his place by becoming the leader of the Dublin branch of the Real IRA.

However, after an internal financial row he was shot in the legs and spent more than a year in hiding. It is understood that he had only recently returned to Coolock.

The Herald reported last week that sources had revealed that it is "most likely" that the gang involved in the hit on Smith were from north Dublin and have been involved in armed robberies of cash-in-transit vans.

Before Ryan's death, he and Smith had kidnapped and tortured a senior member of that gang in an attempt to steal their weapons. It is understood that since that incident the gang have sworn revenge.

WITNESSED

None of the young children who attend the creche witnessed the attempted murder.

A staff member said on Friday afternoon that "everyone was fine" and that they were focusing on contacting the children's parents

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/gardai-real-ira-man-shot-in-face-fading-fast-262974.html

Gardaí: Real IRA man shot in face ‘fading fast’
Monday, March 24, 2014

Gardaí say it is just “a matter of time” before dissident republican Declan Smith dies from traumatic gunshot injuries to his head.


By Cormac O'Keeffe
Irish Examiner Reporter
The 32-year-old was shot in the face at close range after he dropped his child off at a creche in Donaghmede, north Dublin, last Friday morning.

Smith, originally from Belfast, has been on a life support machine since he was rushed to hospital.

Garda sources said he was “fading fast” and that it was just a “matter of turning off the machine”.

Detectives believe the shooting is the result of an internal feud within the Real IRA in north Dublin over money.

Gardaí said it would be “difficult” to pinpoint who exactly was behind it.

Senior sources said the investigation into the shooting, as well as the gangland murder of Stephen ‘Dougie’ Moran in Lucan, west Dublin, last Saturday week, will be “slow burners”, with no arrests imminent.

Moran, who was John Gilligan’s driver after the former gang boss was released from prison, was shot dead outside his heavily-fortified home in Lucan.

Detectives are following a number of lines of inquiry.

The funeral of the underworld figure, who had connections with Limerick criminals and paramilitaries, took place on Saturday, attracting hundreds of mourners, including known criminals.

The Criminal Assets Bureau is understood to be proceeding with plans to seize Moran’s home, worth an estimated €300,000.

Meanwhile, detectives in Coolock investigating the rush-hour gun attack on Smith are compiling lists of possible suspects.

Garda sources suspect the killer is from within “his own”, meaning dissident republicans in north Dublin, mostly linked with what was the Real IRA.

The terror unit “convulsed” following the murder of its Dublin leader Alan Ryan, shot dead by crime bosses in September 2012.

A number of his associates were subsequently targeted in punishment attacks, including a previous shooting on Smith in January 2013.

Many of those shootings were part of an internal “clean up operation” ordered by the overall leadership in the North.

However, detectives suspect that a local north Dublin feud is behind Friday’s shooting of Smith. They suspect the row is over money and racketeering and failing to hand over money.

Smith remains in Beaumont Hospital, the country’s specialist centre for head injuries. Gardaí believe that Smith will not survive once the life support machine is switched off.
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Knock yourself out abe Dublin is hardly South Armagh. Alan Ryan was respected we all know that. The 32 County Sovereignty Movement had total respect for Alan Ryan but he had too many bums and hangers on.

If they no longer have the protection of the IRA then they are easy targets for anyone. The truth is the IRA still receive tributes from the drug gangs but are far more interested in building up the armoury and strength to fight where it acually matters.

I know Dublin well if one bum dies they are easily replaced by another. The IRA in Dublin are probably the most shambolic IRA group in the country but the fact that Ryan's gang was as the article you posted confessed "The most feared in Dublin" says it all. Alan Ryan was well liked and respected his cronies not so much I'd wager the drug gangs have done a deal with the IRA and will offer up a tribute but the bums and hangers on are fair prey.

That's what my cousin said but if you thing "the Ra'" are finished in Dublin you are living in fantasy land abe.

Had that would be right but not now.

I don't think the gangs are or will pay any money to the I.R.A.

Deal with the I.R.A. AND THE GANGS ?

I don't know but no statement has came out with ether side of such a deal but the gangs will not give money why would they ?

In regard to the Dublin I.R.A. i will go back to 2010 statement.

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.

You say the Dublin I.R.A. was not top dogs in anyway so the news they was run out of town was not NEWS to you Sean.


And by the way Republican history in Dublin is more then any other place in Ireland and Cork and Dublin near on own won the war 1916-22 the Noth did not do much so cop on Dublin Republicans of old were sound fighting men just because people missed used the Republican name for their money in own pockets job does not take away from Republicans over all.

http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/crime/dissident-fat-deccy-smith-planned-3279244

Declan Smith planned move to New York before he was gunned down outside creche.

Gunned down Fat Deccy Smith planned a move to the US before he was shot in the face outside his son’s creche, we can reveal.

The former right-hand man of slain terror boss Alan Ryan was so terrified he was going to be killed he planned to quit Ireland and join his older brother Mark in New York.

But after a year of keeping his head down, Fat Deccy’s enemies finally caught up with him on Friday when he had his face blown off by a lone shooter outside his son’s creche in Donaghmede, North Dublin.

Pals said his horrendous injuries have left him looking like “Freddie Kruger” and that the Belfast man’s parents Ann and Bill have accepted he may never wake up from his coma.

21/03/14 The scene of a shooting outside a creche on Holywell Avenmue, Donaghmede, Dublin this morning.. Picture Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin.
One told the Irish Mirror: “Deccy knew he was the most unpopular man in town so what makes the shooting more tragic is that he managed to stay under the radar since last January when he was shot in the leg and warned by cops that his life was in danger.

“He had his son and his partner to live for so he actually had plans to move out to his brother Mark in New York and leave all this behind.

“His family are devastated and they haven’t left his bedside because it’s touch and go.”

Declan "Deccy" Smith
We reported how the 31-year-old screamed, “don’t shoot, don’t shoot” as a gunman approached outside Little Rainbows Creche on Holywell Avenue.

But his would-be killer showed no mercy as he blasted him point blank in the face with a shotgun.

Detectives are working on a theory an old enemy of his and murdered RIRA boss Ryan may have been behind the hit.

A second possibility is that he was targeted by a drugs gang who got in a fight with one of his pals.

Fat Deccy also had a list of enemies in the North and was linked to a gruesome double murder in his native Belfast in 2007.

He fled South in the wake of the slaying of Joe Jones and Ed Burns in March that year.

Continuity IRA men Jones and Burns were killed over an apparent split within the organisation and the alleged removal of guns from a weapons dump.

Burns, 36, was savagely beaten before being shot and his body was dumped close to Milltown Cemetery in West Belfast.

Jones, 38, was shot in the head and decapitated with a shovel.

http://www.sundayworld.com/top-stories/northern-ireland/tortured-republican-walks-free-from-jail

Republican says he was strip-searched 30 times in 14-month prison spell.

Republican activist Stephen Murney says he endured repeated enforced strip searches in a 14 month “living hell” behind bars.

In an exclusive interview within days of walking free, after being cleared of a raft of terrorist charges, the Eirigi press officer lifted the lid on the brutal prison regime which he described as physical and mental torture.

“I was forcibly strip searched about 20 to 30 times when I was in there (Maghaberry),” he said.

“Just before the searches were about to happen, I was taken into a room and asked if I was going to comply with a search, I would make it known I wouldn’t.

“Then I was left in a room for about 15minutes, a reflection period they call it, in the cell by yourself.

“Basically this was to get you worried, as you know what’s going to happen to you. The cell then opens and half a dozen screws, the Riot Squad as they are known in jail, enter the room in black boiler suits with utility belts and batons. You are standing in the cell, they stand around you.

“One in front, grabbed me by the face, each one to the side grabbed me by the arms, and hold you out like a crucifix position.

“The others behind me force me on my knees then pushed my face literally into the ground. At that point you are fully clothed, then they start removing your clothing. I didn’t put up resistance.

“They held me in arm locks and pressure points and then left me lying on the ground, degraded and feeling humiliated.

“And they never tell you what they are looking for,” explained Mr Murney.
He said the searches were unnecessary as the prison is equipped with an electronic BOSS chair that can detect any foreign item in the body.

In a frank and open interview the Newry republican spoke of his determination to continue to fight for his political goals yet publicly backed a non-combatant approach to achieving a United Ireland.

“Eirigi is engaging publicly and privately in relation to the futility of armed actions.

“There are people who agree and disagree with our analysis and that is a range of all people, but I would support the party’s position,” said Mr Murney.

However the former republican prisoner stopped short of condemning acts of violence carried out by other members of his group and the acts of dissident terror groups, including the murders of Constable Ronan Kerr and prison officer David Black.

“The politics of condemnation never worked for 40 years. I am not going to jump on the bandwagon of condemnation now, but what I can say is that I do not support armed groups and their actions.

“There is a major misconception that dissident activity equates to armed actions. Remember the dissidents of the Soviet Union were the toast of the West.

“There is a whole raft of republicans of different shades who disagree with the status quo who don’t go out there with armed actions on their minds.

“Former members of Sinn Fein and the IRA are coming out saying where they stand. Being a dissident does not necessarily equate with being involved in armed activity and Eirigi’s position on armed activity is clear as it was to Judge Philpott who has totally vindicated me and my party,” he added.

Last Monday, Corrine Philpott QC, acquitted the Eirigi spokesman after six of the charges including possession of BB guns and combat styled clothing were thrown out in a no bill application.

The final charge of taking and publishing photographs of PSNI officers on his Facebook account from the 2012 Olympic Torch run were also thrown out of by the Diplock court judge.

Defending solicitor Darragh Mackin has now confirmed that he will be pursuing a civil action for damages for his client.

Speaking to the Sunday World Murney revealed how he coped with humiliating ‘crucifix-styled’ strip searches and ill treatment during his 14 months on remand.

His health has suffered, the visible toll on his physique can be seen in his significant loss in weight.

The 30-year-old admits the experience proved to be a mental as well as physical “torture” following repeated, forced strip searches, sometimes twice a day.

Murney was arrested in November 2012. He was offered bail of £1,000 bail with the conditions that he stayed out of Newry. He rejected the terms and continued to decline the conditions for a further year.

“I have no doubt if I had accepted the bail I would have ended up breaching them through no fault of my own, and be on further charges.

“The whole experience was hard on family, especially my son six-year-old son Rhys.

“He knew where I was and why, he knew the police had been harassing me for months before the raid. He was there in the house when the armed police raided my home at six in the morning,” he recalled.

It was the visits from his much loved son and the support of his family that kept him going through his darkest of hours.

“As you can imagine I always looked forward to his visits. It was really difficult to say no to bail, but I had the support of my family.

“My mother, Martina wrote to the Attorney General John Larkin, the NI Human Rights Commission, and the director of public prosecutions to examine my case. So there was a campaign going on all the time.

“We were being heard before I was arrested and we are continuing to be heard and that is what the British state tried to put a stop to by locking me a way,” said Mr Murney.

The position of the press officer is to continue in his work with the political group in establishing a new electoral campaign north and south of the border.

The socialist republican does says that a united Ireland is possible in his lifetime, but has says the Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness is living in “Cloud Cuckoo Land”.

“Martin McGuinness’ vision of a united Ireland by 2016 is just two years away, and in my opinion it is just not going to happen.

“I would like to see it happen in my lifetime. Ireland has a wealth of natural reserves that is yet to be taped into, and just like Scotland voting on independence, it can happen here too.

“We have already chosen candidates for the upcoming local council elections with two in Belfast and seven in the South. And we will be considering potentially sitting in the new super council of Newry, Mourne and Down.

“Don’t forget I am an innocent man, and I intend to pursue my political beliefs despite all that has happened to me,” said Mr Murney.

In the same week as the Newry man walked out of Laganside courts to greet his party supporters, four fellow Eirigi members were sentenced to six years in jail at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin for possession of firearms and handguns.

Trinity PhD student Ursula Shannon (30) of Clonsilla, Dublin and her co-accused John McGreal (37), from Rush, and Colin Brady (24), of Kinsealy, both Co. Dublin, were found guilty of the offences after a short trial.

A fourth co-accused, John Troy (34) of Cabra, Dublin had pleaded guilty to the unlawful possession of the same Taurus pistol, magazine, Walther P5 pistol and one ZGJY branded combined stun gun and flashlight on the same date.

Stephen Murney stated it was not his place to condemn the actions of any republican.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/cri...od-9208853.html

John Gilligan: Dublin gangster who became too famous for his own good.

The police couldn’t do it. The courts couldn’t do it. But now, the man linked to the killing of journalist Veronica Guerin, has been scared out of Ireland by his criminal rivals.

Gangsters and drug lords had prowled the backstreets of Dublin long before the emergence of John Gilligan, but since the 1990s he has been among the most notorious of them – despite being behind bars for some 20 years.

Linked to the murder of journalist Veronica Guerin and the importation of huge quantities of drugs into Ireland, he has deliberately kept himself in the public eye even while serving time.

He was certainly not forgotten by the Dublin criminal underworld. Since his release in October 2013 it has become clear that rival gangsters are determined to kill him.

They nearly managed it earlier this month when they sent a gunman who cornered him in a friend’s bathroom and repeatedly shot him. Two weeks later they targeted his minder and clinically assassinated him in the street. Since Gilligan emerged from prison he has been as brazen as ever, flashing his trademark cocky grin for photographers and exuding an air of invincibility.

But the four bullets which hit him in the bathroom attack changed all that and this week a very different Gilligan was on show. He looked gaunt and shaken as he was taken in a wheelchair under police escort from hospital to the ferry which took him out of Ireland – reportedly to seek refuge with relatives in Birmingham. The new fearful Gilligan had a gash over one eye caused by a bullet which grazed him. Little wonder that one of his last utterances before sailing away was: “I have to get out of here.”

Irish police are not clear exactly who is out to get him: it could have been somebody he crossed before he went to prison, or somebody he offended inside, or somebody he had pressurised for money since his release.

One theory is that he is in the sights of another Dublin career criminal, now living in Spain, who is regarded by several police forces as a major supplier of drugs to Ireland, the UK and elsewhere.

The theory goes that Gilligan’s criminal celebrity, in stirring up much public attention, was making life difficult for gangsters who prefer to operate with a lower profile.

Clearly someone has decided that Gilligan would be better off dead. A source immersed in the often casually brutal Dublin underworld explained: “A lot of these guys try to operate under the radar as much as they can. They’re trying to get in drug shipments and it’s just creating problems for them. Gilligan just keeps opening his big mouth.” Part of the difficulty in pinning down exactly who is responsible for the shootings is due to a fluctuating range of gangs who regularly engage in lethal feuds over drugs, money and sometimes personal issues.

“There are new faces coming to the fore all the time,” according to the same source. “Very few of them make it beyond 40 – you just have one godfather murdered and suddenly there’s a new name up and around.”

It was the 1996 killing of Veronica Guerin which brought Gilligan to public notice and galvanised the Irish authorities.

A risk-taking crime correspondent, she had waged a high-profile newspaper campaign against Gilligan and other crooks. Despite being beaten and shot in the leg, she persisted until she was shot dead in broad daylight.This was not regarded as an ordinary murder, the Irish Prime Minister of the day calling it “a grave threat to our democracy”.

In the aftermath of the killing police targeted Gilligan and broke up his gang, introducing new laws and introducing a witness protection programme.

A year after the murder he was arrested at Heathrow en route to Amsterdam carrying several hundred thousand pounds in cash. After a three-year legal battle he was extradited to Dublin, where he was acquitted of the Guerin murder though the court said it had “grave suspicions” about him.

But he was given a 28-year sentence – a record – for importing 21 tons of drugs. It was later reduced on appeal to 20 years, it was still viewed as a reflection of the fact that he had helped flood Ireland with drugs.

A judge lectured him: “Never in the history of Ireland has one person caused so much wretchedness to so many – a haemorrhage of harm that it is unlikely to heal even in a generation.”

During his years in jail he was a notably troublesome inmate, mounting a series of appeals and legal challenges which meant his picture – always grinning – was often in the papers.

He fought a running battle with the Criminal Assets Bureau, the agency set up specifically to seize his drug money and his properties. He was certainly very rich: among his assets was a large-scale equestrian centre which includes a 3,500-seat showjumping arena. Today nobody knows whether he is broke or has large amounts of money hidden away.

What is certain however is that since the Guerin killing the problem of the violent drug culture is posing more problems than ever. Many more drugs are being seized, around 700 firearms are recovered every year and now gangs are even using bombs against each other – almost 100 last year.

Criminal Assets Bureau boss, Chief Superintendent Eugene Corcoran, admitted last year: “We’ve seen an escalation in the level of violence, and the number of deaths has vastly increased. These are very dangerous people.”

Gilligan has sailed away and would clearly be ill-advised ever to return. His era may be over but his unwelcome legacy is a new generation of violent career criminals.

http://www.herald.ie/news/gardai-tried-to-warn-fat-deccy-of-attack-threat-30127840.html

BY KEN FOY CRIME CORRESPONDENT – 26 MARCH 2014 03:30 PM

Gardai tried to warn a notorious dissident republican gangster that there was an imminent threat against his life just hours before a gunman blasted him in the face outside a north Dublin crèche.

Declan 'Fat Deccy' Smith (31) continues to cling to life in Beaumont Hospital after suffering horrendous facial injuries in Friday's attack.

The IRA thug has been in an induced coma and is on a life support machine after losing half his face in the shotgun attack and is not expected to survive.

It has now emerged that detectives tried to inform him about the active threat on his life on Thursday night but were unable to talk to the gangster. A source said: "Gardai observed Smith's car outside a property in north Dublin on Thursday evening and then attempted to inform him that his life was under imminent danger.

"However when they called to the door, they were verbally abused by a woman who told them that Smith was not there and that they should f*** off."

Belfast man Smith, who was a close pal of slain Real IRA terror chief Alan Ryan, had been living in Coolock after spending over a year on the run since he was shot in the leg by his former IRA associates in Saggart, south Co Dublin, following an internal cash row.

The attempted murder of Smith is just the latest twist in a major increase in tensions between a notorious north Dublin drugs gang who murdered Ryan and Smith's dissident republican pals.

In a separate incident, the leader of the drugs gang, nicknamed 'Mr Big', is being investigated after he threatened one of Smith's pals with a handgun in Dolphin's Barn a week before Smith was shot.

FEUDING

Sources say that this latest round of feuding started when Smith's pal drove up and down the road where the crime boss lives and taunted him.

While it has not been ruled out that his former RIRA comrades targeted Smith in the shooting in Donaghmede last Friday, sources say that the most likely crew who were involved in the assassination attempt are a tightly-knit gang from the Priorswood area of north Dublin who are heavily involved in armed robberies from cash vans.

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and...oting-1.1740084

Gardai investigate west Dublin feud after church grounds shooting.

Gardai believe a man left fighting for his life after being shot in a suspected gangland incident was targeted by a well known gang leader as part of a feud in west Dublin.
The 34-year-old victim has been in critical condition since being attacked in the car park of a church on Bawnogue Rd, Clondalkin, Dublin, at around 6.15pm yesterday.
He was in his car when another vehicle pulled up from which a masked gunman alighted and fired several shots into the victim’s car.
Though wounded several times, the victim managed to drive from the scene and make his way to the safety of Clondalkin garda station, where he presented with his injuries, covered in blood and near a state of collapse.
He was aided by gardai in the station as they waited for an ambulance to arrive. Paramedics then worked on him at the scene and took him by ambulance to Tallaght Hospital.
He is believed to have lost consciousness before being transferred to the hospital and Garda sources said he was now seriously ill.
He was wounded in the neck and upper bodybut is expected to survive.
Well known to gardai, he was targeted a number of years ago in a number of attacks on his home when shots were fired at it and an explosive device was also thrown at the house.
The car park where was shot and the area outside Clondalkin garda station where he left his car as he fled from it were both sealed off last night and underwent examinations by members of the Garda Technical Bureau.
The victim’s car has also been taken away for forensic analysis.
The injured man is a car dealer and has links to a number of men involved in an ongoing gun few in the neighbouring suburbs of Crumlin and Drimnagh, where he is from.
Gardai are trying to establish if he was shot as part of a row with a major gangland figure from the Clondalkin area.
Anyone who may have seen the attack or believes they have information that could aid

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/criminal-shot-outside-creche-dies-in-hospital-30134280.html

Criminal shot outside creche dies in hospital.

CONOR FEEHAN – UPDATED 28 MARCH 2014 10:28 AM

THE dissident Republican gangster Declan ‘Fat Deccie’ Smith has did in hospital a week after being shot in the face with a shotgun outside a Dublin creche.

The 31-year-old had been clinging to life in Beaumont Hospital since he was targeted after dropping his son off at the door of Little Rainbows childcare centre in Holywell Road, Donaghmede.

Smith was only feet from his parked car when he was approached by the gunman. He was heard shouting “don’t shoot” before the assassin pointed the sawn-off shotgun towards his face and shot him at close range.

The Belfast native was known to be a close friend of the murdered Real IRA leader Alan Ryan.

Ryan was on route to visit Smith when he was gunned down in Clongriffin 18 months ago.

In the wake of Ryan's death, Smith had attempted to fill his place by becoming the leader of the Dublin branch of the Real IRA.

However, after an internal financial row he was shot in the legs and spent more than a year in hiding.


It is understood that he had only recently returned to Coolock.

Sources revealed that it is "most likely" that the gang involved in the hit on Smith were from north Dublin and have been involved in armed robberies of cash-in-transit vans.

Before Ryan's death, he and Smith had kidnapped and tortured a senior member of that gang in an attempt to steal their weapons. It is understood that since that incident the gang have sworn revenge.

Staff at the crèche drew curtains to prevent the pre-school children from witnessing the murder scene.

Smith was placed in an induced coma in Beaumont Hospital but failed to revive and his death was confirmed by gardai this morning.

Shortly before Ryan was murdered he and Smith had been ordered by dissidents in Northern Ireland to hand over €300,000 from their rackets. They failed to do so and the dissident group they were associated with, terming itself the “Real” IRA, has since disintegrated amid internal feuding and defections.

Smith, originally from west Belfast, was suspected of being one of a gang terming itself the “Continuity” IRA in Belfast. He was named as being part of a gang that killed two men on the same evening in March 2007. Smith and the others were captured on CCTV drinking and taking drugs in clubs and pubs in the city before the murders.

They then abducted and shot dead Edward Burns, 36, at the Bog Meadows beside the M1 Motorway. They then crossed the city Ardoyne and beat Joseph Jones, 38, to death with a spade. Jones was almost decapitated in the frenzied attack.

A post mortem examination is expected to take place later today and will be carried out by the State Pathologist Professor Marie Cassidy .

The Garda investigation into the incident is ongoing.

http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/fat-deccy-smith-dies-hospital-3294211

Fat' Deccy Smith dies in hospital after he was shot in face outside creche.

Mar 28, 2014 08:44 By Colin Brennan 0 Comments
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The republican was dropping his son at the nursery school when he was gunned down by a hitman

Deccy Smith being treated at the scene by paramedics
Gunned down Fat Deccy Smith died in hospital overnight after he was shot in the face outside his son’s creche.

The former right-hand man, 31, of slain terror boss Alan Ryan was shot last Friday in Donaghmede, North Dublin.

He was blasted by the gunman as he left Little Rainbows Creche in Holywell Avenue.

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.

Friends said his horrendous injuries had left him looking like “Freddie Kruger”.

A garda spokesman said: "A post mortem examination is expected to take place later today and will be carried out by the State Pathologist Professor Marie Cassidy .

"The Garda investigation into the incident is ongoing."

Declan "Deccy" Smith

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 weeks ago.

Terrified members of slain RIRA boss Alan Ryan’s gang are in hiding after the gun attack on Smith.

“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.

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.

Colin Keegan, Collins DublinBlood on the road at the scene of the shooting on Holywell Avenmue, Donaghmede, Dublin
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.

Good news

In the words of bugs bunny that's all folks U.C.A done the fat deccy hit.

They also try to kill fat deccy mate in west of Ireland.

I will post the story now go into the link to see armed gunmen photograph .

http://www.thestar.ie/star/criminal-alliance-were-behind-fat-deccy-hit-44658/

A SHADOWY alliance of gangsters last night claimed responsibility for the murder of republican ‘Fat’ Deccy Smith — and revealed they also tried to kill one of his pals.

The United Criminal Alliance, which says it is a nationwide network of criminals, made the claim hours after Smith (32) died — a week after he was gunned down outside a creche in north Dublin.

They said they shot Smith over his links to Alan Ryan — the leader of the RIRA in Dublin who extorted hundreds of thousands of euro from criminals before his 2012 murder.

Armed

The group also claim they killed Ryan (28), and another Real IRA boss.

And they say they have now received some €15,000 from republicans in return for sparing their lives.

fat deccy
GUNNED DOWN: Smith
The group said in a statement to The Star: “In 2010 following an unprecedented discussion and consultation process, criminals launched an armed campaign in opposition to extortionist Alan Ryan and associates.

“To this end we executed Declan Smith on Friday, March 21.

“We have now executed the top three people by rank in 2010 in the extortionist group.

“We have received €15,000 in compensation from membership of the Ryan group.

“We took this money because it was taken from criminals in the first place — the people who came forward to us are now safe.”

The UCA also claimed they tried to kill another dissident republican in the west of Ireland in recent days.

Guns

But the statement said: “Our four-man unit armed with submachine guns could not gain access to the dwelling.

“There will always be a tomorrow.

“To the Sligo town gang who think they are hard men on the phone we are not forgetting you”.

Sources have confirmed that gardai are aware of an incident in Sligo in recent days in which a republican’s home was attacked.

The UCA claim came hours after Smith died in Beaumont Hospital.

It had initially been thought he would survive after he was blasted with a sawn-off shotgun outside the Little Rainbows creche in Donaghmede just after 9.10am on March 21.

I will get back to this seems to be down or something.

I will get back to this seems to be down or something.

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/no-...e-30137461.html

No Republican funeral for Alan Ryan's close pal who was shot in the face.

Do the modern IRA groups even want a united Ireland anymore or are they just in it to intimidate drug dealers into paying them their protection money.

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/gardai-search-for-injured-man-after-car-blast-30140616.html


Car bomb in Dublin.


Gardai search for injured man after car blast.

THE suspect who planted a bomb under an SUV in Dublin was severely injured by the blast, gardai believe.

You could say some want united Ireland and some are in it for the money Republicans in Dublin were the ones taxing the gangs and got killed doing so up the north of Ireland i think they new the Dublin lads was up to their eyes in gangland shit.

http://www.sundayworld.com/top-stories/crime-desk/gardai-fear-dissident-bloodbath

Cops probe attack on 'Fat' Deccy's pal.

http://www.herald.ie/news/injured-car-bomb-suspect-stumbles-into-city-hospital-30145147.html

Injured car bomb suspect stumbles into city hospital.

Folks i will only be able to post links to story's from now on copyright issues, complaints received by mods, i have ask the mods who the complaints are from so i will not post their story's again on the thread.

So if some links people have seen before go missing you know why.

The mods can feel free to take down any links to the people who have put complaints in to gangster bb.

ABC.

I wish they had some kind of IRA/punishment groups near where I live (Australia) I'm sick of the drug addicts and drug dealers who get around thinking they can swear at old ladies and punch people for no reason.

Yes we can't post Irish Independent story's on the thread any more.

The rest as they say is history.

http://www.sundayworld.com/top-stories/crime-desk/criminals-unaware-that-phone-line-was-tapped


Lawyers WERE bugged in garda stations.


I am sure that yous know garda interview rooms was bugged for years but yous will not report that WILL YOU ?

http://www.publicinquiry.eu/category/morris-tribunal/

Solicitor client privilege conversations were bugged in rooms in Garda stations.