Murdered crime figures dad returns after gang threat is lifted.
The father of the murdered Corbally brothers has returned home from the U.S. after receiving “assurances” his life is not in danger, a source has revealed.
Paddy Corbally (58), was forced to flee Ireland in 2011 after learning his life was under threat from the same gang who killed his sons Paul and Kenneth.
The pair were gunned down by a three-man hit squad as they sat in a car on the Neilstown Road, Clondalkin, west Dublin, at around 8pm on June 28, 2010.
It is believed their murder was ordered by associates of Derek ‘Dee Dee’ O’Driscoll, as part of a tit-for-tat feud between rival drug gangs.
Following the clinical hit, gardai believe convicted criminal Paddy also came “under active threat” from his son’s killers, who feared he would seek revenge for the double murder.
The veteran gangster was forced to leave Ireland and relocated to Florida, where he lived for the last three years.
However, a source has told the Sunday World that the notorious gun criminal has now returned to the family home in Clondalkin.
“He has been back for the last few months and is living in the family home, he obviously feels safe again,” our source said.
“His son’s killers had threatened Paddy because they were afraid of him, but he never tried to do anything. Apparently, he has received assurances that his life is not in danger from one of O’Driscoll’s gang.”
Paddy Corbally is extremely well known to gardai and his most serious criminal conviction dates from 1999, when he was jailed for seven years for possessing a sub-machine gun used in a shooting.
Corbally, of Drumfinn Avenue, Ballyfermot, was convicted after a nine-day trial of having a copy of an Ingram submachine gun and ammunition with intent to endanger life.
The court heard that Corbally snr had refused to hand over cash to a man after he called to collect money on May 11, 1997.
The incident all centred around a car that Corbally apparently sold.
Seamus Behan, from Edenmore Park, Coolock, was shot seven times with the replica Ingrams when he arrived at Drumfinn Avenue, Ballyfermot, demanding money back for the faulty car he had bought from Paddy.
Corbally refused to hand it over before Mr Behan stepped forward and threatened him.
Paddy called on both his sons, who were upstairs, to come to his aid.
They came down and Kenneth opened fire on Mr Behan, shooting him seven times. Miraculously, he survived.
His other son Paul joined the attack using an iron bar.
The brothers fled the country to evade arrest.
Arriving in Manchester, they teamed up with the mobster Seanie Comerford’s crime gang, graduating into big-time heroin dealing.
Back home, the judge in their father’s case said he took the words “with intent to endanger life” as tantamount to saying “with the intention to kill”.
Mr Behan ran off when the gun was produced and was followed by Kenny.
A witness saw them struggle before Mr Behan fell to the ground. He heard Corbally tell Kenny “to give him another one”.
The court was told that, despite being unemployed, Corbally snr had an affluent lifestyle.
Like his two sons he was on the dole, but they had two new pick-up trucks and a new car at their house.
Drug dealers Paul (35) and Kenneth Corbally (32), were shot dead in their Lexus car as a result of a series of rows between them and a Dublin gangland figure from Ballyfermot, west Dublin.
Gardai believe the contract was placed on their heads after the non-fatal stabbing and beating of an associate of the gangster. The brothers were also linked to a pub row in September last year, resulting in the death of Jason Martin.
