http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and...-told-1.1776507

Inquiry on murder of Real IRA chief Alan Ryan ongoing, inquest told
Gardaí granted six-month adjournment by coroner to continue investigation.

http://www.sundayworld.com/top-stories/crime-desk/frazier-and-fat-freddies-peace-pact

Gangster targeted in botched hit is fighting fit weeks after being blasted at close range.

http://www.sundayworld.com/top-stories/news/man-shot-on-his-doorstep-in-co-meath


Man shot on his doorstep in Co Meath.

Statement From G.H.Q. Continuity Irish Republican Army
In relation to a statement published in the Irish Daily Star on Saturday April 12 2014, the leadership of the Republican Movement wishes to place the following on record. In this so called statement a criminal gang styling itself "United Criminal Alliance" make false accusations and threats against the Republican Movement and in particular, the Republican Movement in Limerick. The dissemination of false accusations along with making threats against members of the Republican Movement will not be tolerated and those responsible for this behavior will be located and will face severe consequences. The Continuity Irish Republican Army is not involved in and is completely opposed to extortion rackets against criminals. It is the opinion of the leadership of the Republican Movement that those who engage in the act of extorting money from criminals are just as bad as the criminals and drug dealers they extort money from. These drug dealers and criminals are a cancer on Irish society, and those who extort money from them, and in return allow these criminals and drug dealers to continue their despicable activity are contributing to inflicting the scourge of drugs and crime upon the Irish people. The C.I.R.A. are dedicated to achieving Irish freedom and protecting the communities of Ireland from these criminals and drug dealers. Threats made against members of the Republican Movement are viewed very seriously and we now restate that the C.I.R.A. are committed to protecting our Volunteers and will take any measures necessary to ensure our members are protected. The C.I.R.A. now warn the drug dealers and criminal's who style themselves as the "United Criminal Alliance" and are responsible for these threats and false accusations, if any attempts are made by you to harm in any manner, members of the C.I.R.A., their homes or their families, the perpetrators of these attacks will face execution. Along with the execution of the perpetrators of any actions taken against the C.I.R.A., the C.I.R.A. will also execute numerous prominent criminals and drug dealers throughout Ireland as a deterrent against further attacks. The C.I.R.A. is a 32 county organization and have the ability to strike at will against these criminal and drug dealing elements. The C.I.R.A. now order this criminal gang styling itself "United Criminal Alliance" to disband and desist from their nefarious activities immediately or face annihilation.

G.H.Q. C.I.R.A.,

Issued, 15/04/2014.




The Criminal Action Force statement was a reply to the CIRA faction statement since the C.A.F. put out their statement warning the CIRA faction they would be murdered the RSF site page has taken down the CIRA faction statement.



So they don't want to get murdered, after all.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0503/615064-belfast-explosives/

Man charged over explosives in Belfast.

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and...ublin-1.1783349

Well-known gangland figure (38) shot dead in Dublin
Scene sealed off after former youth sports star and suspected murderer killed outside house in Drimnagh.

Gardai have launched a murder investigation after a known gangland figure was shot dead in Dublin this afternoon.
The victim was wounded outside a house on Cooley Rd, Drimnagh, and pronounced dead.
The 38-year-old former youth sports star was a suspected murderer who was charged with a fatal shooting but was recently cleared.
He walked free from court after spending several years in prison on remand when bail was denied because he was a flight risk and over fears he would intimidate witnesses.
A convicted robber, he had been warned his life was in danger and The Irish Times understands had taken precaution in an effort to evade any attempts on his life.
Today’s fatal attack occurred at around 3pm. The Irish Times will not name the dead man until relatives have been informed.
Regarded as a senior drug dealer, he had extensive contacts throughout the underworld in Dublin and was closely associated with the gang suspected of being behind the murder almost two years ago of Real IRA key figure in Dublin Alan Ryan.
A Garda spokesman said gardaí at Sundrive Road were investigating.
The scene is preserved pending a technical and forensic examination. The local Coroner and the office of the State pathologist have also been notified.

http://www.herald.ie/news/blood-was-comi...m-30244963.html

'Blood was coming from his mouth and nose, we knew we were losing him'

BY KEN FOY AND CONOR FEEHAN – 05 MAY 2014 03:30 PM

A WOMAN has told how she desperately tried to save gangster Christopher Zambra as he lay dying after being shot by an assassin.

Neighbour Veronica Sheehan helped the crime kingpin in his final moments.

"There was blood coming from his mouth and nose and you could see he was turning blue," she said.

"When I checked on him he still had a pulse and another neighbour who is a nurse began to do CPR on him and his brother-in-law was also breathing into his mouth, but we could tell that we were losing him."

"I ran over to him after I heard the gunshots from my house and I could see a man in a black balaclava jump into another car after he had shot him," she added.

Gardai are now braced for a gangland bloodbath after the daylight gun murder of one of the country's most notorious criminals.

Zambra (39) was one of Ireland's most feared gangsters. The highly vindictive "ladies man" was a pal of the so-called 'Mr Big' of Irish crime and was spotted by gardai with another young south Dublin criminal at the gang boss' heavily fortified bulletproof home in Coolock last Monday.

There are now fears that 'Mr Big' will avenge his pal's killing as detectives examine multiple possible motives for Zambra's murder including whether it was ordered by the Christy Kinahan crime syndicate.

ATTACKERS

Zambra was targeted just before 3pm yesterday as he drove along Cooley Road in Drimnagh to visit his sister. As he arrived the gunman ran towards the front of his 02 CW registered Audi car. Up to six shots were fired at him when his car was blocked in by two other vehicles – a 4x4 and a car.

He tried to flee his attackers and is believed to have jumped out the passenger door to try and run for his life, but he was hit by another burst of gunfire from a 9mm machine gun and died in a nearby garden. It's understood his attacker shot him twice as he lay dying on the ground.

The convicted armed robber, a key associate of the gang who organised the murder of Real IRA terror chief Alan Ryan in 2012, walked free from court last year on charges of murdering drug dealer John Carroll in Grumpy Jacks in The Coombe in 2009.

Gardai believe that he ordered and organised Carroll's murder because of a row over a woman and the fact that he owed Carroll a five figure sum for drugs. Zambra was formerly closely connected to the gang which was led by convicted killer and heroin dealer Brian Rattigan who grew up in the same estate where Zambra was shot dead yesterday.

Gardai erected a blue forensic tent over his body in the front garden of a house at the junction of Cooley Road and Kilworth Road, two doors from where he had been targeted.

Gardai sealed off the scene and started house-to-house enquiries. A silver Nissan Qashqai, believed to be the getaway vehicle, was found burned out on nearby Galtymore Road where a second crime scene was established. The handgun used in the murder was found but gardai have not yet located the other car.

Known for his "vicious jealous personality"' Zambra was involved in numerous relationships with women – some of whom were in previous relationships with other gangland figures.

On one of the many times that he was previously arrested by armed detectives, he was caught in bed with the then partner of a major gang boss.

Sources say that he has numerous enemies in the underworld including jilted lovers and gangsters linked to the 'Fat' Freddie Thompson mob as well as the Kinahan crime syndicate. He survived an assassination attempt in June 2008, at the height of the Crumlin/Drimnagh feud when a number of shots were fired at him in Crumlin by gunmen linked to the Thompson gang.

Gardai have been investigating whether he had any "organisational involvement" in the attempted gun murder of heroin trafficker Greg Lynch outside a northside pub last October.

Last night, this was being examined as one of the main motives for the murder as well as whether the shooting was revenge for the gruesome murder of John Carroll.

A talented musician and soccer player, Zambra was a long term target for specialist garda units including the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) and Organised Crime Unit (OCU).

Originally from Drimnagh, Zambra had been based on the capital's northside since his release from custody last year.

He was very friendly with 'Mr Big' for years and even went to New York on a holiday with him along with a tiger kidnap gang boss who is currently on the run from gardai and the PSNI after his Co Cavan home was seized by CAB earlier this year.

http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/gangland-boss-christopher-zambra-shot-3496800

Mob boss behind four murders gunned down outside his sister's home in broad daylight.

http://www.sundayworld.com/top-stories/crime-desk/troy-spy-we-spot-chubby-gangster

Troy spy - we spot chubby gangster.

This is Ireland’s most elusive criminal – the horse dealer who for years grazed out on John Gilligan in more ways than one.

Troy Jordan has been lying low for almost three years since a bounty was put on his head by paramilitaries.

But as our pictures show, Jordan is back out of his hole and is ‘bigger’ than ever.

The chubby gangster has piled on the pounds since he fled to the U.K. in fear of his life after major criminals, including Brian Rattigan and Karl Breen, labelled him a rat, along with paramilitaries who tried to establish themselves as the new RIRA following the murder of Alan Ryan.

Jordan is suspected of much but convicted of little. He has been on the garda radar for over three decades, but has no serious convictions for crime.

In fact, his record is so clean that underworld enemies have suspected he must be a tout.

Even garda sources find it hard to believe he has never been the target of any major operation by the force, despite his alleged associations with many of Ireland’s most-serious criminals and suspicions that he is allegedly a major player in the drug trafficking and weapons supply trades.

Jordan hasn’t been photographed in years, even by garda surveillance, but a Sunday World team was watching as he settled back into life in rural Co. Kildare this week on the eight-acre estate where he lives.

Jordan has been based in the U.K. where he was declared bankrupt last year – a decision which has been recently overturned by the Insolvency Agency there.

Ironically, he returned to Ireland just as his old pal John Gilligan fled to the U.K. in fear for his life.

Jordan has been spotted drinking with old associates and attended the funeral of a brother of his close pal Martin ‘the Viper’ Foley in recent weeks, where our team snapped him.

He is travelling in a high-powered,

U.K. registered car and friends say the father of two is totally paranoid about his security whenever he steps outside the safety of his gated home, where he has installed a top-of-the-range CCTV system.

Our team caught up with him this week as he emerged from his bolthole with a horsebox attached to an old jeep.

But Jordan was in no mood to talk and made frantic phonecalls as we attempted to ask him about his businesses.

Gardai have intelligence that Jordan was linked to John Gilligan’s evil empire after he was jailed following the murder of journalist Veronica Guerin.

He had Gilligan’s blessing while he was banged up and was one of the first old contacts the
pint-sized thug tried to contact when he was released from prison last October.

Gilligan believes that Jordan owes him a sizeable profit of his alleged illicit earnings since 1996, following the collapse of his gang.

As our snaps show, Jordan has piled on the pounds and grown fat from the spoils of his ill-gotten wealth, but sources say he has been reluctant to part with any money despite Gilligan’s insistence that he owes him.

Last year Jordan took the bizarre step of filing for bankruptcy in the U.K. but the Sunday World understands that his bankruptcy was ‘annulled’.

His pad ‘Blackthorn Cottage’ in Kildare is not registered in his name. His mother Pearl, who is from from Killinarden in Tallaght, bought it outright in 2000 with no mortgage.

It is understood she has never lived there despite holding the deeds of the property in her name.

Jordan has been known to gardai since he was a teenager growing up in Tallaght, when he was suspected of dealing drugs.

However, during the investigation into the murder of Veronica Guerin, which centred on John Gilligan’s gang, his significance in the underworld became apparent.

When a distribution centre was raided at Greenmount Industrial Estate and a list of customers was found, Jordan’s name was at the top and he was alleged to be buying up to 20 kilos of hash a week.

After the gang was smashed he still had Gilligan’s blessing to become a major wholesale supplier of drugs and firearms.

The Criminal Assets Bureau investigated him and demanded almost e1million from him in unpaid tax.
He was named in the CAB’s 2008 report due to the significance of an appeal against them. It was ruled that it was up to the defendant, not the State, to prove the tax bill was wrong – which was of major legal significance to the CAB’s powers.

Jordan was twice arrested in connection with the murder of mum of two, Baiba Saulite, who was assassinated at the door of her home as her children slept upstairs in 2006.
Jordan was questioned about supplying the gun that was used in her murder, although it is was explained by Gardai at the time that he did not know what his then pal Marlo Hyland wanted it for when he handed it over.

The thug donned his best pin-striped suit when he turned out to offer his sympathies to his one-time business partner and lifelong pal Martin ‘the Viper’ Foley earlier this month. But he looked like any other Kildare farmer last week in a t-shirt and jeans as he worked in the outhouses at his home.


Along with Foley, he helped to found Viper Debt Recovery and Repossession Services in 2005. But he stepped down as a director of the firm in June 2010.

Jordan remained close to Gilligan throughout his time in prison and during her legal battle with CAB over the Jessbrook Equestrian Centre in nearby Enfield Geraldine Gilligan told the High Court in 2008 her only income was €5,000 per annum that she received from Jordan “for grass”. He was described in court as a “stud farmer”.

Gardai suspect it was Jordan who helped Gilligan forge a link with the Dundon gang behind bars. He had been close with Wayne Dundon for years.

It is believed Jordan forked out significant amounts of cash to the IRA when it was being run from Dublin by Alan Ryan.

Ryan’s outfit were believed to be behind the murder of Jordan’s nephew Alan Barry in March 2012.

Barry (30), was shot dead in a house in Kildare along with his pal Zilvinas Varnauskas (31).

It is believed that Barry worked as an enforcer for Jordan but had decided to go it alone in the drugs trade and threatened to take out a ‘Mr Big’ in the Co. Kildare area. Gardai believe Jordan warned Barry, but his advice went unheeded.

After Alan Ryan’s murder it is understood Jordan stopped paying his tithe to the paramilitaries and fell foul of the new command. They put a bounty on his head and the fallout coincided with the wrath of other major criminals.

The burly criminal fled the country and sought safety in the U.K. where it is believed he continued to run his operations. But in recent weeks underworld sources say he has been back in Ireland showing his muscle.

As Gilligan remains in Birmingham, it remains to be seen if Jordan can help his old boss out.

http://www.sundayworld.com/top-stories/c...sing-dublin-duo

Gardai probe theory that Cavan-based gang took over drug debt before Dublin men went missing.

http://www.herald.ie/news/gardai-to-quiz-dundon-over-pals-murder-30252960.html

Gardai to quiz Dundon over pal's murder.

http://www.herald.ie/news/ira-killer-lynch-is-attacked-by-inmate-30256640.html

IRA killer Lynch is attacked by inmate.

http://www.sundayworld.com/top-stories/crime-desk/investigations/2014-the-year-of-the-gun


EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: 2014 - The Year of the Gun.

http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/crime/mob-boss-christopher-zambras-final-3522597

Mob boss Christopher Zambra's final days were spent paranoid and alone.

39-year-old who was blasted to death last Sunday refused to eat prison food because he thought it was poisoned.

http://www.sundayworld.com/top-stories/n...gangsters-death

Priest tells funeral mass family don't want retaliation for gangster's death.

http://www.sundayworld.com/top-stories/c...-of-being-a-rat

We reveal robber named in graffiti near Jean Boylan funeral accusing Gary Hutch of being a rat.

This is the robber who was named in graffiti daubed on a church that accused Christy Kinahan lieutenant Gary Hutch of being a ‘rat’.

Sick graffiti was painted on the walls of the Russian Orthodox Church before the funeral of Kinahan senior’s ex-wife this week, despite the fact the service took place in a neighbouring church.

The slogans “Gary Hutch U Rat’ and ‘U Set Keith Kinlan Fish Up’ were daubed on the walls and door of the church in red paint, with the dim-witted hoods thinking the funeral of Jean Boylan was due to take place there.

We can reveal that Keith Kinlan is a well-known robber who was jailed for stealing a laptop belonging to the daughter of former billionaire Sean Quinn.

Gardai are puzzled about why the graffiti appeared because Kinlan, who is nicknamed Fish, is a low-level criminal who would have known Gary Hutch all his life.

The pair are both from Summerhill in Dublin’s north-inner city and are not known to be enemies. There is no suggestion that Kinlan was responsible for the slogans and neither had it been thought that Gary Hutch was a garda informer.

Gardai believe it was an attempt by an enemy of Hutch to embarrass him in front of his friends at the funeral.

Hutch is the nephew of Gerry ‘the Monk’ Hutch and has lived in Marbella for the last seven years. He was arrested as part of Operation Shovel in May 2010 and is on bail while the investigation continues. The 33-year-old is regarded as being a key lieutenant of Kinahan.

Keith Kinlan is well known to gardai and has over 50 convictions for theft and burglary. The 38-year-old pleaded guilty in January 2013 to the theft of a case from a car containing a laptop and iPhone belonging to Aoife Quinn in July 2012.

Kinlan and his younger brother Gary pleaded guilty to 16 charges.

At the time of the theft the pair should have been in jail after getting three-year sentences for a robbery, but the last 18 months were suspended. After the Quinn robbery, the State had those 18 months reactivated and they were sent to jail.

During his sentencing for the Quinn robbery his solicitor said that Kinlan was institutionalised and was more comfortable in prison.

http://www.sundayworld.com/top-stories/c...n-the-don-dunne

Love/Mate - cocaine-dealing actor in RTE drama snapped beside Eamon 'the Don' Dunne.

http://www.herald.ie/news/terror-as-shotgun-fired-at-city-home-30277235.html

Terror as shotgun fired at city home.

http://www.sundayworld.com/top-stories/c...-shot-in-dublin

Love/Hate actor Leroy Harris shot in Dublin.

http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/gardai-launch-expanded-search-missing-3549426

Gardai launch expanded search for missing Dublin men Eoin O'Connor and Anthony Keegan.

http://www.sundayworld.com/top-stories/northern-ireland/hotel-guns-find-hushed-up-for-giro

Hotel guns find hushed up for Giro.

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/gar...g-30284518.html

Gardai probe 'Mr Big' links to Christopher Zambra killing.

Gardai are believed to have foiled another hit attempt on the Dublin gang boss known as Mr Big.

The drug baron, who is believed to have been ordered the hit on IRA boss Alan Ryan, is aware there are a number of threats against his life from criminal and republican figures.

Gardai received intelligence that he was going to be shot last week and were on patrol in the Cromcastle area of north Dublin, where his would-be killers were said to be waiting.

A man who matched the description of a dangerous criminal who has previously been involved in armed robberies was waiting in a car in the area, but fled when he saw gardai.

The man, who is aged in his mid 20s and is from the north Dublin area, is considered extremely dangerous and has numerous convictions.

“It could be that the intelligence was correct and Mr Big was going to be targeted or the fella who ran could have been up to something else, but there is a reason he fled from the scene,” said one source.

It the latest suspected assassination plot against Mr Big, who we cannot name because he is currently out on bail for a serious offence.

He had to change the garda station he was signing on at a number of times due to fears he would be whacked.

He is staying in a home on the northside of the city which has had bullet-proof windows installed.

Associates of Alan Ryan blame him for his killing and will still be looking to take him out.

However, Ryan’s inner-circle have been left weakened since his death.

Mr Big pulled a gun on one Ryan associate, Daragh Evans, in Dolphin’s Barn earlier this year. Evans left the country in fear of his life in the aftermath of that attack. It is unclear if he has returned since.

Mr Big had also been at war with Greg Lynch, who runs a rival drug dealing operation in Dublin.

Mr Big was arrested in a car in the Marrowbone Lane area in December 2012 after gardai became suspicious. Lynch lives close by and when detectives searched the car, which was being driven by an associate of Mr Big, they discovered cable ties and balaclavas. At the time sources said they believed the men were on their way to target Lynch.

Mr Big recently had a major falling out with his associate Pascal Kelly (48), after he demanded Kelly pay back €60,000.

Kelly fled to Europe after being released on bail in Northern Ireland.

upload images free. A Westmeath man who fled to the UK after being caught with €350,000 worth of drugs has avoided a jail term.

James Packenham (32) was caught four years after his escape when he returned to Dublin on the death of his mother. Gardaí arrested him on the day she was buried after becoming aware he might return for the funeral.

Judge Patricia Ryan accepted that he was holding the drugs, with included 15,000 ecstasy tablets, for others who then forced him to leave the country.

She imposed a four year sentence, suspended in full on condition that he carries out 240 hours community service.

Packenham of Cluain Craoibh, Kinnegad pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to possession of €189,000 worth of cocaine, €158,000 of ecstasy tablets and €2,800 of cannabis at Westend Gate, Tallaght, on September 6, 2007.

Detective Garda Gavin Cooke said Packenham had been told by others in the drug trade to rent an apartment to store the drugs. Gardaí later got a search warrant for the apartment and arrived when Packenham was not there.

When Packenham returned he put the key in the door but didn’t hear the alarm go off. This made him suspicious and he fled before entering the apartment.

Prosecuting counsel Derek Cooney BL said he was ordered by the drugs’ owners to go the UK and stay there. When he later phoned these people to ask if he could return home they said no and burnt a car out in front of his mother’s house “to send him a message.”

Packenham later returned to Ireland but hid out in the midlands until he heard of the death of his mother in May 2013. He returned to Dublin and was arrested by gardaí on the day of her funeral.

Defence counsel Damien Colgan SC submitted that Packenham entered an early guilty plea once he was caught and was very co-operative with gardaí.

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William Byrne has been on bail since January

A man who was caught with €4.8m worth of heroin in 2007 has had the remaining half of his ten-year jail term suspended at his sentence review.

William Byrne (29) was sentenced by Judge Katherine Delahunt in February 2009 to ten years in prison after she heard evidence that he accepted responsibility for the haul.

She put in place a five-year sentence review having taken into account his serious drug addiction at the time.

Judge Mary Ellen Ring had released Byrne on bail into the custody of his parents at Cushlawn Park, in Tallaght at the initial sentence review hearing last January to allow a probation report be prepared.

She suspended the final five years of the sentence for five years on strict conditions including that he remains drug free and cooperates with the Probation Service.

Byrne had pleaded guilty at his sentencing in 2009 to possession of the drugs for sale or supply at his then rented home on January 12, 2007. He has three previous convictions which include a 12 month suspended sentence for drug dealing.

Detective Garda Michael Ormonde told Fiona Murphy BL, at the initial sentence review hearing in January that gardaí raided Byrne’s then rented home in January 2007 where they discovered 25kgs of heroin in two sports bag in a kitchen.

Byrne was in the sitting room with his co-accused, Thomas Kennedy (35) formerly of Westbourne Park, Clondalkin, along with keys that opened the bags.

Kennedy received a ten year sentence in March 2008 after he pleaded guilty to the possession of heroin for sale or supply.

Byrne was arrested and later admitted that he knew there was heroin in the bags but claimed that someone else had brought them to his home.

Det Gda Ormonde agreed with Ms Murphy that Byrne was a serious drug addict at the time and there was evidence of drug use in his home.

Aileen Donnelly SC, defending, told Judge Ring that Judge Delahunt had placed emphasis on Byrne’s addiction when she sentenced him which was why the review formed part of her ruling.

She said Byrne has since made efforts to deal with his addiction and has completed two charity runs in prison.

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Gardai are investigating the incident

Gardai are investigating after gun shots were fired at a house in Dublin on Tuesday night.

Gardai received reports that shots were fired at a house on Glencarrig Drive in Firhouse after 10pm on Tuesday night.

When officers went to investigate they found a suspicious device on a garden wall at the address in Firhouse, south Dublin.

The bomb squad was deployed and a number of homes on the street were evacuated.

However, the device deemed to be a hoax.

There were no reports of injuries and no arrests have yet been made.

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'Fat' Freddie (orange t-shirt) in custody at Dublin airport


'Fat' Freddie Thompson has been returned for trial in connection with a pub row last year.

The 33-year-old, from Loreto Road, Maryland, Dublin, made no reply when he was charged this afternoon with committing a violent disorder with two others, on January 7 last.

Dublin District Court heard that the man, who has not yet entered a plea, is accused of engaging in or threatening the use of violence that would cause another person to fear for their safety.

The incident is alleged to have happened at Morrisey's pub, Cork St, in Dublin 8.

The charge is under Section 15 of the Public Order Act and on conviction it can result in a sentence of up to 10 years.

Dressed in an orange T-shirt, blue jeans and black runners, the married father-of-one represented by solicitor Edward Bradbury spoke briefly during the hearing.

Mr Thompson, who had been arrested in north Dublin, said “yes” when he entered the court and was greeted by Judge Michael Walsh who told him to “take a seat”.

“The DPP has directed trial on indictment,” Judge Walsh was told by state solicitor Nessa Moran. A book of evidence was served in court on the defendant by Garda Seamus O'Donovan and Judge Walsh then made an order sending Mr Thompson forward for trial.

The judge gave him the formal warning that if he intended to use an alibi in his defence he must tell the prosecution within 14 days. Mr Thompson was asked if he understood, nodded and then said “yes”.

Following an objection to bail, he was remanded in custody and will face his next hearing at the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on May 27. A decision on whether the 33-year-old man is to be granted free legal aid was also deferred.

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Three senior members of Fat Freddie Thompson's mob were spotted by armed detectives

Gardai believe gang planned to assassinate target who was involved in failed hit on Michael Frazer

Gardai believe they have prevented a gangland assassination after two guns were thrown from a car following a high-speed chase.

Three senior members of the Fat Freddie Thompson gang are believed to have been involved in the incident.

Gardai from the national bureau of criminal investigation spotted a car being driven suspiciously on Nicholas Street at around 12.20am on Saturday, May 17, and followed from a distance.

They recognised three of the occupants as being major players in the Thompson gang. Two firearms – a Smith and Wesson pistol and a Walter pistol – were thrown out of the window and the vehicle disappeared after a short pursuit.

Gardai recovered the firearms and later found the car abandoned on a nearby street but there was no sign of the suspects.

There were balaclavas, gloves and cable ties in the back seat and detectives believe the trio were on their way to carry out a hit.

The initial theory is that the intended target was either involved in the failed murder bid on Thompson associate Michael Frazer two months ago or the murder of Christopher ‘Git’ Zambra two weeks ago.

Gardai are looking to speak to the three men who are believed to have been in the car. They are all well-known criminals and have been heavily involved in the infamous Crumlin/Drimnagh feud for the last decade.

Gardai are believed to have foiled another hit attempt on the Dublin gang boss known as Mr Big ?

That must be around five times Garda are said to have foiled another hit on Mr Big what a joke, it looks like people are making it look like people are trying to to kill Mr Big all the time and that Mr Big is not doing any thing about it.

It is called giving people encouragement to doing something to Mr Big and he will not do anything about it because five other people try to hit him and nothing happen to them when in fact nobody was trying to hit Mr Big at all,

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/det...der-269785.html

Detectives draw up theories after crime boss’s murder.