Is it United Criminal Alliance-U.C.A members left the Criminal Action Force over a founder member now the New IRA have booted out the Ryan gang looks like it.

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Criminal is blasted in drive-by: Man shot three times in front of his girlfriend
A MAN in his 40s was desperately clinging to life last night after a late-night shooting attack in west Dublin.

The incident happened close to the busy St Dominic’s Shopping Centre area in Tallaght, Dublin, just after 10pm.

Emergency services rushed to the scene and tried to resuscitate the victim and he was then rushed to Tallaght General Hospital where he was last night battling for life.

The victim was named locally as Karl Wynne (46), who is originally from Finglas but spent some time outside of Ireland during the 1990s.

Sources said Mr Wynne — who has convictions for armed robbery —was standing in the area with his girlfriend when he was shot a number of times including in his head.

Two men on a motorbike are believed to have carried out the attack.

Gardai immediately sealed off the area and appealed for witnesses to come forward to help with their investigation.

Last night’s shooting was the second gun horror in the area in less than two weeks as the body of Alan Desmond (38) was found by children in a field in Killinarden Hill on May 18.

He had died of a gunshot wound to the back of his head.


Karl Wynne was shot in the body and in the head by gunmen.

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/man...m-29309887.html

TOM BRADY AND FERGUS BLACK – 31 MAY 2013

A MAN has been shot in the head in an incident believed to be linked to the attempted murder of a gym owner earlier this month.


The latest gun victim was named last night as Karl Wynne, who is in his mid 40s.

He was shot as he sat on a wall outside a licensed premises at a shopping centre in St Dominic's Road in Tallaght, south county Dublin, shortly before 10pm.

Mr Wynne was rushed to Tallaght hospital in a critical condition.

Early today he was still fighting for his life as he underwent emergency treatment.

Gardai think the shooting may be linked to an attempt to murder gym owner Sean Enright at the Ballyboggan business park in Glasnevin on the northside of the city two weeks ago.

Two men approached Mr Wynne on a motorcycle. The passenger fired five shots from a 9mm handgun. Mr Wynne was hit once in the head and three times in the body.


Shocked passers-by alerted the emergency services and Mr Wynne was rushed by ambulance to Tallaght hospital.

Mr Wynne is originally from Finglas in west Dublin but had been circulating in the Tallaght area in recent weeks.

Scene of crime tape sealed off the area early today as garda forensic officers, dressed in special protective clothing, began a detailed search for clues.

A major investigation was immediately launched, led by Chief Supt Brendan Mangan, who is in charge of the Dublin South division.

Mr Wynne was gunned down near a set of steps leading from the shopping centre, just yards from the nearest house and a school.

The scene of the shooting is close to Tallaght village and the gunmen had a choice of four different routes to make their escape.

Officers are investigating reports of Mr Wynne's recent movements and contacts to try to find a motive for the shooting.

But an initial line of inquiry was that the shooting was connected to the murder bid on Mr Enright on May 15.

Mr Enright was shot four times in the upper back as he was walking into the Universal Warrior gym, which he part owns.

He underwent emergency surgery at the Mater hospital and survived the attack, despite his injuries.

Gardai initially thought he had been attacked by dissident republicans but now believe he had been targeted by an organised crime gang.

They think a gunman had been hired by to carry out the attack on Mr Enright but are not yet certain why he had been targeted.

Officers have been working on the basis that the champion bodybuilder had been attacked because of a previous dispute with another man.

The gunman acted alone and abandoned his getaway car without setting it on fire.

The car was found shortly afterwards by gardai, who are hopeful that a forensic examination of the vehicle will help them identify the gunman.

http://www.sundayworld.com/top-stories/crime-desk/dead-hitman-walking-shot-in-gangland-attack

A SUSPECTED hitman who was arrested for the attempted murder of businessman Sean Enright has been shot himself in a gangland hit.

The 45 year-old was shot in the head earlier tonight in St Dominic's Shopping Centre in Tallaght Dublin.

Gardai have sealed off the scene and a technical examination is underway.

Last week the the Sunday World revealed how the suspected hitman was nabbed by detectives at a house in Tallaght, Dublin and taken to Finglas Garda station for questioning.

He had spent the previous week hiding from gardai and criminals after being suspected of blasting hardman Enright five times at close range, only for the bodybuilder to survive.

We revealed how Gardai arrested the suspected gunman just in the nick of time.

Several criminals turned up at the house at lunchtime looking for him with sources saying they believe that they intended to abduct him. Gardai got to him first and probably saved his life. His luck finally ran out tonight.

Officers were hopeful that he would cooperate with the investigation into the Enright shooting in order to save his skin. It is believed that the professional armed robber accepted a €20,000 contract to whack the 32-year-old but panicked when he confronted his target at a gym in Glasnevin two weeks ago.

He was regarded as a dead man walking because he could identify the man who hired him to take out Enright. Detectives have pieced together the events leading up to the assassination bid and believe that a business associate of Enright took out the hit after falling out with the father of three last month.

Officers have studied CCTV footage of the attack – Sunday World sources say the gunman was clearly nervous and can be seen shaking as he approaches Enright from behind before raising his gun and opens fire.

Although Enright was hit in the neck and back, he was confident that he would survive and taunted his would-be killer, ordering him to “bring it on”.

The robber, who is from Tallaght, was shocked by Enright’s defiance and fled. The hit was so amateurish that the would-be assassin didn’t even bring a getaway driver and forgot to burn out the stolen car.

By the time he ordered two female associates to go back and torch the motor, gardai had already found it. Sources say that they are confident that the gunman left his DNA in the car and believe that they will have enough evidence to bring charges.

On Wednesday evening after the botched bid, the shooter was summoned to a meeting with the man who had ordered the murder and was told that he would be paid, despite the fact that Enright was still alive.

However, the robber feared that he was being lured to his death because he failed in his mission and believed that he would be killed so that he could not identify the man behind the plot.

He gave the meeting a miss, dumped his mobile phone and checked into a hotel in Ballymun on the northside of Dublin. He then moved between safe houses in Finglas before gardai caught up with him.

Gardai have linked him to an armed robbery at a post office in Tallaght three weeks ago in which €10,000 was stolen. He and a 37-year-old accomplice threatened staff with a lump hammer and escaped with the cash on a bicycle.

The suspect had more than 20 convictions for robbery and was arrested five weeks ago for an armed robbery at a bank in Dublin city centre.

He had a drug problem and told pals that he agreed to shoot Enright because his partner recently gave birth to his child and he needed the cash.

The man who took out the contract on Enright was previously a close friend of his but they have had a bitter falling out over a business disagreement.

Enright has given a statement to gardai and is understood to have told them that he has no idea why somebody wanted him dead.

However detectives are aware that his name has featured on hit lists issued by the Real IRA and the INLA and a criminal from Blanchardstown also took out a contract on his life after a recent disagreement.

It is not the first time that Enright has miraculously escaped death. In January 2011, he was targeted by a lone gunman outside his girlfriend’s home in Clonsilla, west Dublin.

Nine shots were fired and Enright was hit in the upper body at least three times. Although it was reported at the time that a bulletproof vest had saved his life, it was his sheer muscle mass that stopped the rounds from piercing his heart.

The would-be killer escaped in a waiting car and Enright managed to stagger into his girlfriend’s house where he collapsed.

It was feared he would not survive but he amazed doctors with his recovery and was out of hospital after less than a week. The bullet wounds to his chest are clearly visible when Enright competes in amateur bodybuilding tournaments.

In 2008, Enright had another lucky escape when he was attacked while working as a doorman at a pub in Tallaght. He refused to let a man in and he returned later in the night and stabbed Enright, although he wasn’t seriously injured.

These exclusive Sunday World pictures show Enright and Alan ‘Fatpuss’ Bradley happily posing for pictures at Enright’s gym. The pair have a long association together.

As well as competing in bodybuilding events together, Fatpuss Bradley made a very public DJ appearance at a dance festival promoted by Enright.


Enright and Fatpuss

The ‘Escape Fest’ made headlines in the summer of 2009 when Fatpuss performed a dance set in front of 3,000 people at the Fairyhouse racecourse.

Despite organising and running the event, Sean Enright told a newspaper that he did not know why Bradley and his criminal brother, Wayne, turned up to a court appearance wearing t-shirts promoting the Escape Fest event.

He said the pair must have bought them on the internet: “I didn’t know he (Alan) was wearing the t-shirt. I didn’t even know he had one. I’m shocked. He’s a DJ from town, he’s been doing it for years.”

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A HITMAN-for-hire gunned down on Thursday night was shot on the orders of a Finglas-based mobster who feared he would turn informer.

Armed robber Karl Wynne (45), was shot four times while sitting on a wall outside a busy shopping centre in Tallaght.

Wynne remains in Tallaght Hospital, but a source said he had no hope of recovery and his life-support machine had been switched off yesterday afternoon.

Gardai believe Wynne’s shooting is directly linked to the shooting of businessman Sean Enright outside a Cabra gym in 15 May.

Wynne had accepted a €20,000 contract to kill Enright from a Finglas-based gang heavily involved in drug dealing and armed robberies.

However, Wynne botched the murder attempt, with CCTV footage showing him shaking in fear as he approached Enright.

Gardai believe Wynne’s associates decided to take him out because they feared he was at risk of being turned by gardai into an informer.

They are now investigating if Wynne’s murder was arranged by a well-known Finglas criminal who has served a lengthy prison sentence for armed robbery.

The up-and-coming mobster – who has links to the jailed Bradley brothers – is also a suspect in the murder of drug dealer Paul Cullen earlier this year.

The drug dealer is said to have been a close friend of Enright’s and had been due to meet him the day he was shot.

Investigating officers believe Wynne was lured to his death on Thursday night after receiving a phone call from someone he knew.

Career criminal Wynne was clearly identified by gardai within hours of Enright’s attempted murder.

He was subsequently arrested and kept in garda custody for nearly a week before being released without charge, with a file being sent to the DPP. Senior gardai wanted him to be charged before he was released, but the DPP insisted a full file be sent before he was brought before the courts.

However, Wynne’s release only heightened suspicions against him.

He had previously been described as a ‘dead man walking’ by the Sunday World.

We revealed how, hours after Enright was shot, a number of feared criminals had called to Wynne’s home looking for him.

It is believed they planned to abduct him and that his life was saved by gardai when they arrested him.

Dad-of-six Wynne had spent half of his life behind bars and had served more than 20 years in prison here and in the UK. He was gunned down outside a vegetable store at the shopping centre on St Dominic’s Road, shortly before 10pm on Thursday.

The pillion passenger on the motorcycle fired five shots from a handgun, hitting Wynne once in the head and three times in the body.

Wynne had been living in the Tallaght area for the past couple of months, but is originally from Claremont Drive, Ballygall Road East in Finglas, north Dublin.

Gardai are also investigating if Wynne was involved in the murder of 38-year-old gangster Alan Desmond, who was found by children close to a field in Tallaght on May 18.

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/cri...l-29315003.html

PAUL WILLIAMS SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT – 03 JUNE 2013

THE family of a criminal gunned down in the street last week have been told by doctors he has no hope of survival.


Karl Wynne (45) was shot four times in the head and body as he sat on a wall outside a shop on St Dominic's Road in Tallaght last Thursday night.

It is understood that his family have agreed that his life-support machine will be turned off tomorrow.

The convicted armed robber had been questioned for five days by gardai investigating the attempted murder of body-builder Sean Enright outside his gym in Cabra on May 15.

Wynne, who didn't wear a mask, could be identified from CCTV footage, which captured the incident in which Enright was shot five times. The hitman's fingerprints were also found in the stolen car used by the lone gunman. However, the DPP decided not to charge him with murder and he was released pending the completion of a file by gardai.

Detectives believe Wynne's execution was ordered by a Finglas-based crime boss who offered him €20,000 to murder Enright. It is understood he was furious that the hitman had apparently botched the hit.

MURDERED

Senior sources say the Finglas criminal, a former member of the gang once led by murdered godfather Martin 'Marlo' Hyland, wrongly believed Wynne had been released because he had agreed to turn informant.

Meanwhile, it also emerged yesterday that gardai have established that Wynne was a business partner of Alan Desmond, whose body was found in a field in Tallaght three days after the Enright shooting. Desmond (38) had been shot once in the head.

Since then, investigating detectives discovered that the dead man had been much more involved in serious crime than they had first thought.

It is understood Desmond was running a gun-hire business, renting out weapons.

They also learned that Wynne had been working for Desmond, who went missing shortly after detectives found six firearms and a large quantity of ammunition in his Tallaght home.

A security source said: "It cannot be ruled out that the two murders and the attempted murder of Enright are connected. Wynne was answerable to Desmond, who lined up various robberies and gave them to Wynne to carry out."

http://www.thesun.ie/irishsol/homepage/n...e-homeless.html

THE man fighting for life after a botched hit once posed as a homeless man — to target banks.
The Irish Sun can reveal Karl ‘The Loan Ranger’ Wynne, 45, was caught on camera as gardai believed he was spying on cash in transit vans in March.
Gardai issued a bulletin warning officers of his plans after he was spotted with another man close to the Bank of Ireland in Dublin city centre.
Wynne, from Finglas, is in a critical condition after he was blasted once in the head and three times in the chest last Thursday night.
The dad was shot by a motorbike pillion passenger who targeted him outside St Dominic’s Shopping Centre in Mountainview, Tallaght. Wynne — who was quizzed over the failed hit on fitness fanatic Sean Enright — remains on life support at Tallaght Hospital.
His family have been told to prepare for the worst after he suffered “catastrophic injuries”.

Hobo ruse ... Wynne once dressed as street sleeper to case banks
A source said: “He was well known to gardai and he was in fear of his life.
“The fear was that he was planning something big before he was identified.” Wynne was branded the Loan Ranger after holding up a building society in 1999 and escaping in a taxi.
And we can reveal he was also linked to an armed robbery at the Ulster Bank in Grafton Street earlier this year.
Gardai confirmed yesterday Wynne had been known to them for a “considerable period of time”.
Supt David Taylor urged anyone with information on the gun attack to come forward.
Supt Taylor said: “It was a very warm night, one of the best summer nights we’ve had so a lot of people would have been out and about.
“People who were in the area may have seen something.”


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Man arrested after Alan Ryan funeral to stand trial for IRA membership.

A Dublin man arrested after a garda investigation into paramilitary activity at the funeral of Alan Ryan will stand trial for IRA membership next year.

Nathan Kinsella (33) is charged with membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army, otherwise Oglaigh na hEireann, otherwise the IRA on September 13th, 2012.

He was arrested in September last year along with Vincent Ryan (22), a brother of the deceased man Alan Ryan, and Darragh Evans (23), who are also charged with the same offence on the same date.

The non-jury court had adjourned the case until this month after hearing Mr Kinsella had suffered a “very traumatic injury” and his mobility was “quite debilitated”.

Counsel for the accused man, Ms Imelda Kelly BL, this morning told the Special Criminal Court that the defence was seeking a 2014 date for the trial, which is expected to last two weeks.

Presiding judge Mr Justice Paul Butller, sitting with Judge Alison Lindsay and Judge Flannan Brennan, remanded the accused man on continuing bail to appear before the court on March 4th 2014 for trial.

He told Mr Kinsella that if he intended to rely on the defence of alibi he must notify the prosecution within 14 days and furnish the relevant names and addresses.

Mr Justice Butler said Mr Kinsella should not without leave of court call anybody to give evidence on his behalf unless 21 days before the day of the trial he gives notice of his intention to do so.

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/suspect-in-lithuanian-hit-survived-rira-beating-29317390.html

Suspect in Lithuanian hit survived RIRA beating.

PAUL WILLIAMS SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT – 04 JUNE 2013

A HITMAN who survived a brutal attack by Real IRA boss Alan Ryan is the prime suspect for the murder last month of Lithuanian gangster Gintaras Zelvys.

The 41-year-old convicted rapist was gunned down in front of his wife at his "cash-for-clothes" business premises in Rathcoole on May 1.

Zelvys, who had been jailed for seven years for extorting money with menaces from fellow eastern Europeans in Monaghan, was shot several times in the chest by a masked man armed with a sawn-off shotgun.

At first it was thought that Zelvys, described as a "terrifying brute", had been targeted by members of his own gang in a row over money.

And it was claimed that an eastern European former special forces soldier had carried out the killing.

However, it has emerged that the suspected gunman is a former member of the notorious Westies gang from Blanchards-town, west Dublin.

BOMBING

Aged in his mid-30s, he has more than 30 convictions for robbery, burglary and possession of weapons.

The suspect, who is also involved in stealing high-powered cars to order, was questioned in 1998 by gardai investigating the theft of the car used in the Omagh bombing.

Sources have revealed he was aligned to the dissident criminal gang headed by Alan Ryan, who was murdered in Dublin last September. However, a feud broke out, and the hitman was later lured into a trap in a park in north Dublin by Alan Ryan who attacked him, leaving him with serious injuries.

Last month, the former Westie was one of three men arrested and questioned by gardai investigating Zelvys's murder.

One of the others arrested is believed to have taken part in the killing while the third, a taxi driver, drove them from the scene.

Gardai have appealed for information on the whereabouts of a silver Audi A4 that was used by the killers.

Zelvys was a senior member of a major organised crime gang operating between Lithuania, Ireland and the UK. He had convictions for sexual assault, robbery and jail-breaking in his home country.

He also ran a smuggling operation in Portlaoise prison while serving time for extortion. After his release he was deported but returned after spending time in the UK.

http://www.thesun.ie/irishsol/homepage/news/4953844/RIRA-Well-shoot-all-of-your-limbs.html

REAL IRA godfathers have vowed to cripple their own members if they refused to obey extortion drive orders.
The Irish Sun can reveal how the terror group’s ruthless Dublin leadership threatened to blast wavering cohorts in the ankles, knees and elbows last week.
The so-called “Mixed Grill” or “Six Pack” punishment shooting was a favourite of the Provos during the Troubles.
And warnings of its return are believed to be directed at dissidents who are opposed to a new cash squeeze by murdered Alan Ryan’s mob against the capital’s drugs gangs.
Detectives in Dublin’s Store Street station have been made aware of the sinister diktat, with many of the gang’s new recruits coming from the north inner city.Cops now fear the renegades could turn their guns on each other.
The Real IRA 32 County Sovereignty Movement has condemned the “gangster scum” within their ranks and are urging its members to remain vigilant.
Several young terrorists are known to have already fled to Cork, where there is a strong die-hard republican presence.
An email sent out by the 32CSM and obtained by the Irish Sun said: “These people call themselves republicans so be warned.
“Why should we be dictated by a gang of drug dealing taxing scum. A war is coming. Bring it on.
“Say no to these thugs. We do not want a gangster ridden movements that fosters fear into those who don’t carry out their totally unjust orders.
“Stay safe all you people who now have to go on the run. We will rid this country of the scum disguised as republicans.”

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/gar...t-29324229.html

Gardai seize €5m drugs haul from gang led by Ryan murder suspect.


TOM BRADY SECURITY EDITOR – 06 JUNE 2013

Gardai and customs have seized a €5m drugs haul from a gang led by a prime suspect for the murder of Real IRA leader Alan Ryan.


The shipment of 80kg of herbal cannabis and about 350,000 ecstasy tablets was intercepted in a joint operation after it had been smuggled through Dublin port from the Netherlands.

This is the fifth consignment of drugs to have been seized in the past year by gardai attached to the national drugs unit from associates of the murder suspect, who is from the northside of Dublin and the alleged leader of one of the biggest organised crime gangs in the country.

As a result of an intelligence-gathering operation, Customs officers became aware that the latest shipment had been brought into the port.

Following a controlled delivery on Tuesday night, armed officers from the garda unit swooped on a premises at the Rosemount business park in Blanchardstown, west Dublin, and took possession of the haul.

A 41-year-old man from Coolock, Dublin, was arrested as he was leaving the premises.

He is suspected of being the courier for the consignment. He was driving a rented vehicle.

Last night he was being held for questioning at Blanchardstown garda station under section 2 of the drug trafficking legislation, which allows officers to hold him without charge for up to seven days.

Customs officers said that the cannabis had an estimated street value of about €1.6m while the ecstasy tablets were worth €3.5m , making an overall value of €5.1m.

It is believed that the drugs were destined for sale on the streets of north and west Dublin and the shipment was to have been held in storage in the business premises for a short period before being distributed to a network of dealers at local level.

Gardai say the seizure is a substantial financial blow to the gang leader but acknowledge that other shipments are likely to have been smuggled into the country in the past by his associates without the knowledge of the authorities.

SHIPMENTS

The shipments are usually brought into the country, either directly from the Netherlands, where Irish crime gangs have significant contacts to make wholesale purchases of drugs, or else through Britain.

The gang boss is believed by gardai to have been one of a small group of organised crime gang bosses who banded together to order the murder of Ryan last September.

The Real IRA leader and his group of dissident republicans had been trying to intimidate crime gangs into paying them a slice of their profits from drug trafficking, extortion rackets and armed robberies.

This led to a series of armed confrontations between the two sides and culminated in Ryan's murder. Since then, the leadership of the new dissident group, which emanated from an alliance of existing republican gangs, has taken control of activities in Dublin.

Irish Independent

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Gun attack gym boss Sean Enright ‘disabled’
THE bodybuilder who survived being shot five times at close range is set to leave hospital — but now faces the prospect of being permanently disabled.

Sources have told The Star that businessman Sean Enright (33) — blasted outside the gym he runs in Glasnevin, north Dublin on May 14 — is expected to leave the city’s Mater Hospital within the coming days.

But they added that his injuries from the attack — in which he lost his spleen — are so serious that he may have to use a walking stick for the rest of his life.

They said that rather than going straight home, Enright will be sent to the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Dun Laoghaire.

“He was lucky to survive the shooting and his life is not in any danger,” a source said.

“But he was seriously injured and will be feeling the effects for the rest of his life.”

It’s the second time in just over two years that Enright (33) has survived a murder bid — and gardai believe the super-fit bodybuilder’s physique helped save his life.

On the morning of May 14, a gunman blasted Enright five times from behind as he walked into the Universal Gym he operates in Ballyboggan Industrial Estate.

It was feared Enright — who has a minor criminal conviction for possessing a stun gun in 2007 — was going to die after the attack.

But he was sitting up within a matter of hours, later telling The Star: ‘I’m grand.”

The bodybuilder previously survived a gun attack in January 2011 when he was shot as he sat in a car in west Dublin.

Meanwhile, a man shot in Tallaght last Thursday night is still alive — even though he was expected to die following the attack.

Convicted criminal Karl Wynne (45) — who was arrested over the attempted murder of Enright — is critically ill on life support in Tallaght Hospital.

http://www.herald.ie/news/gangsters-home-shot-up-in-2am-revenge-attack-29330188.html

KEN FOY – 08 JUNE 2013 07:00 AM

There are fears of a major escalation in gangland tensions after the home of a notorious criminal was shot up just minutes after a sledgehammer attack on a house owned by a rival.

Our photo shows the sitting- room window of the family home of gangster Paul Rice (43) in Mayberry Park, Tallaght, just hours after yesterday's gun attack at 2.15am.

Sources say Rice was in the house, having returned from the US earlier this week.

"This is a very significant development. Rice will not take kindly to his home being shot up and gardai are working on the theory that the shooting is linked to an earlier attack on a house in Dublin 12," a source said.

TARGET

Half an hour earlier, thugs attacked the property in Dublin 12 and are suspected of using a sledgehammer to break in the door of the property, as well as throwing a stone through a window.

The intended target of the attack – a man in his late 30s who is originally from Cabra – was not there at the time.

The trafficker has been the prime target of Operation Vulcan, which led to seven arrests and 30 searches in February 2012.

"This seems like a tit-for-tat situation and that is a big worry," said a source.

Paul Rice and his crew, who include Gerard 'Hatchet' Kavanagh, previously told slain Real IRA gang boss Alan Ryan to "f*** off" when the RIRA came looking for protection money in 2011.

But he has also ran into "serious bother" with the new IRA alliance, which has been trying to extort cash from him and even put him on top of a death list earlier this year.

Rice had been enlisted by Ireland's richest international drugs syndicate to try to recoup hundreds of thousands of euros that is owed to them.

Christy Kinahan's organisation had turned to Rice and he embarked on a campaign of intimidation.

However, there is speculation that Rice is no longer working with the Kinahan mob, which could change the entire dynamic of drugs gang activity in the capital, say sources.

ROBBERY

Rice's most serious conviction was when he was jailed for 10 years in July 1995 after pleading guilty to the robbery of a bank in which shots were fired.

He escaped on horseback after the hold-up and a security guard was kicked and beaten with a lump hammer.

Rice's most serious brush with gardai since his release from prison came when he was arrested by gardai investigating a kidnap and torture incident at a house in Lucan in October 2010.

The victim was beaten and scalded with boiling water, but refused to complain to gardai.

The man had been abducted from his home near Magherafelt, Co Derry, and then brought to a house in Dublin.

He managed to escape from the property at Tandy's Lane, in Lucan, after his captors fell asleep.

The kidnap victim staggered to Lucan Garda Station half-naked and covered in blood and raised the alarm.

Three men were arrested.

Rice was released after spending two days in garda custody and will not face charges in relation to the incident.

http://www.sundayworld.com/top-stories/crime-desk/courts/charged-with-murder-of-criminal-eamon-kelly

A Dublin man accused of the murder of veteran criminal Eamon Kelly will indicate how he intends to plead to the charge at Special Criminal Court next month.



In December last year Sean Connolly (34), of Bernard Curtis House, Bluebell, Dublin 12, appeared before a special sitting of the Special Criminal Court charged with murdering r Kelly at Furry Park Road, Killester on Dublin’s northside, on December 4th, 2012.

Connolly was also charged with IRA membership on the same date and with possession of a firearm on the same occasion.

Counsel for the accused man, Ms Siobhan Ni Chulachain BL, this morning (Wednesday) asked the non-jury court to list the matter for arraignment on July 24th.

She also asked for an application for legal aid to be granted in circumstances where there was no objection from the State.

Presiding judge Mr Justice Paul Butler said the court would grant the application for legal aid and list the matter for arraignment on July 24th.

http://www.thesun.ie/irishsol/homepage/news/4961558/Race-to-find-churn-bomb.html

Race to find churn bomb
G8 summit cops hunt dissident mobs.

RUTHLESS dissident republicans plan to detonate a bomb stashed in a CREAM churn during the G8 summit.
The Irish Sun can reveal anti-terror cops are frantically searching for the device after receiving intelligence it had been dumped somewhere along the Donegal and Fermanagh border.
Gardai fear the New IRA — along with their cohorts in Oglaigh na hEireann — have hidden the device in a cream churn as it’s half the size of the milk containers previously used by gangs to conceal bombs.
The major economic conference will be held at the luxury Lough Erne resort on June 17 and will be attended by the world’s top political leaders, including US President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron.
But with less than a week to go before the confab starts, the Irish Sun provides an insight into the threat posed by republican extremists. We reveal how:
Dissidents have constructed a NEW mortar that explodes just four feet from the ground;
Expert bomb makers are using equipment from car AIRBAGS to propel bombs;
Gardai are searching for a MAJOR bomb-making factory;
Experienced Provos have now JOINED forces with dissidents.
A senior security source said: “Intelligence has been received on both sides of the Border that the dissidents have planted a device in a cream churn. The container is smaller than the one found after Queen Elizabeth’s visit to Dublin and is easier to conceal.
“Die-hard republicans would like northing more than to stage a ‘spectacular’ during the G8 summit.

Flare-up ... G20 protests in Canada, June 2010
“The sinister nature of this development proves just how sophisticated the dissidents have become in recent months.
“The other fear is that they have developed a mortar which explodes just a few feet from the ground to cause more widespread damage.
“The fact that these experienced bomb-makers are using a device contained with a car’s airbag mechanism to propel the mortar shows just how calculated they are.”
We can also reveal gardai believe that mortars found in Derry in March were made here before being brought north.
Two men in their thirties have been charged with conspiring to cause explosions, possession of mortars and possession of a van for terrorist purposes.
The pair were described in court as prominent dissident republicans.
The source added: “The belief among the Gardai’s crime and security branch is that the bombs are being made at a secret factory in Dublin before coming north.
“The devices found in Derry were brought north and they were only discovered by the MI5.

Prepared ... PSNI officer Finaly
“Gardai believe there’s a secret bomb factory but they have been unable to locate it. Over the next week many of the prominent dissidents here will be under 24-hour surveillance.
“The dissidents are also stealing cars, leaving them close to police stations in the North before replacing them with a similar vehicle that’s been fitted to fire mortars.
“These people are extremely dangerous and are being led by a former republican activist from Armagh.”
The source told how the republican gang of Alan Ryan — who was shot dead in Dublin last year — is washed up.
But he added: “Ryan’s Real IRA gang are finished and there’s now a more vicious breed of terrorist calling the shots. It’s only a matter of time before someone gets killed.”
Our revelations come after Assistant Commissioner Kieran Kenny revealed that Gardai were receiving intelligence every day about the threat posed by renegade republicans and other extremist groups.
Senior officer Kenny, who has responsibility for the Northern Region, told how his troops were prepared for the huge security op.

In good cheer ... world leaders watching footie
He said: “The dissident threat is something we have planned for. So plans will take account of worst and best-case scenarios.
“I’m confident we have enough resources to deal with any problems and we are planning for all eventualities.
“We are working closely with law enforcement agencies at Europol, Interpol and in France to prevent such attacks.”
Cops in the North also fear dissident republicans will launch a terror attack during the high-profile economic conference.
PSNI Assistant Chief Constable Alistair Finlay warned: “I’ve got no reason to say that dissidents won’t do something during the summit.

Riot training ... PSNI ready for all eventualities
“We would say people shouldn’t be surprised if there are incidents. We anticipate those incidents won’t be at, near or affecting any part of the delivery of the G8.
“These groups have real capability and capacity.”
Over 900 gardai will be deployed this Friday when Operation Shield swings into action.
Elite units involved in the huge security operation include the Emergency Response Unit, the Special Detective Unit, the National Surveillance Unit the Crime and Security branch and armed detectives.
Next week’s security operation will be the biggest since Queen Elizabeth’s historic visit to Ireland in 2011.
We also revealed last month how 12 French extremists had travelled to Ireland last month on a major anti-G8 recruitment drive.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/irishsol/homepag...80m-a-year.html


Smoking gun
Real IRA use Chinese ships to smuggle cigs worth €80m a year.

THE Real IRA is using huge ‘mother-ships’ from China to flood Ireland with fake fags — and make €80million a year for terrorist coffers.
It has also set up two secret cigarette manufacturing plants along the Border between the Republic and the North.
Customs, Gardai and the PSNI say the ‘brains’ behind the operation are top-ranking members of the Real IRA.
And the thugs are laughing all the way to the bank after Health Minister James Reilly announced he will introduce plain packaging for all tobacco products.
A senior Customs source said last night: “The Minister might be well-meaning, but he is playing right into the hands of the Real IRA and their criminal cronies.
“They won’t have to copy hundreds of different packs any more — because they’ll all look the same.”

Rifle butts ... RIRA thugs have turned to ciggie smuggling to make a fortune
The scam’s ‘main man’ is a 48-year-old former member of the IRA’s ruling Army Council — jailed for 25 years in 1995 for possession of explosives.
Once a commander of the Provos’ notorious East Tyrone Brigade, police say he runs the operation with a 57-year-old terrorist who got 15 years in the mid-1980s for a landmine attack on the UDR.
That man is currently in jail in the North for failing to pay STG£500,000 in duty after he was caught with 15 million cigarettes.
Both men have a deep hatred of British security forces — close family members were shot dead by specialist army and police units.
A source said: “The Real IRA is making a fortune but there is not a single person behind bars in the Republic for this.”
The RIRA sources the cheap fags in China for as little as 20 cents a pack and has them transported on enormous freighters to European ports.
They are brought to Ireland on smaller ships by legitimate hauliers who believe they are carrying legal goods.
Once the smokes land safely in Ireland, the RIRA uses a network of gangs to distribute them.
Their illegal manufacturing plants are in the South Armagh, North Monaghan/ Louth area.
A source said: “They bring in tobacco for the final stages of cigarette production.”

http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/...personator.html

NIGHTCLUB bosses told last night how they kicked out Celtic star Anthony Stokes after an alleged bust-up with an Elvis impersonator.
The 24-year-old striker was thrown out by bouncers following the altercation in the VIP area of a Dublin bar.
The brawl is said to have erupted after a drink was spilled on Presley fan Anthony Bradley.
And the singer, thought to be in his 50s, was treated in hospital for a broken nose and chipped teeth following the incident in Buck Whaleys on Saturday.
Police in Dublin are treating the incident as a “vicious” and “unprovoked” assault.

Probe ... cops are investigating claims
Last night a spokeswoman for the nightclub said: “A drink was spilled on Anthony Bradley’s coat. Bradley was there as he’s a friend of the band in the nightclub.
“Words were exchanged between two groups. There was no big deal over it.
“There was some altercation then and he was kicked out with his group of friends to avoid any further trouble. The bouncers were straight in, separated them and turfed Stokes out.”
The altercation is said to have happened in front a number of witnesses as the club was closing at around 3am.
A pal of the alleged victim added: “He performs at some pretty big events in hotels, his act is very popular.”
Performer Anthony — who didn’t know who Stokes was — reported the incident to cops who are investigating the alleged bust-up. It’s thought the row was also caught on CCTV cameras.

Controversy ... Stokes' dad John
A police spokesman confirmed: “We are investigating an allegation of assault in the early hours of Saturday morning.
“A complaint was made at Pearse Street police station.”
A pal of the Elvis tribute act added: “Anthony went to the police this morning and he’s been to the hospital as well.
“The whole incident was caught on CCTV.”
Last night sources close to Dublin-born Stokes — who is now on holiday — played down the reports that the striker had been involved in a serious bust-up.
A Celtic insider said: “Some guy came up and gave him a bit of jip but there was no headbutting, he was not thrown out of the club and there were no police involved.”
Buck Whaleys is one of Dublin’s most popular nightclubs with four bars over two levels, including a main club, a terrace smoking area and the VIP Boudoir Suite and VIP Parlour Bar.
Stokes has been hitting the headlines ever since he joined Celtic from Hibs in 2010.

Club ... star was in VIP bar of Buck Whaleys in Dublin on Saturday
Last December Hoops boss Neil Lennon blasted him for attending a tribute to honour Alan ‘The Model’ Ryan — the murdered head of the Real IRA in Dublin.
Republican band The Players Brigade — which includes Stokes’ brother Michael as one of its former members — played at the event and also sold a CD on the night containing a ballad about Ryan. On the day of his funeral in Dublin last year, Stokes tweeted: “Thinking of you Alan.”
In 2011 bigoted yobs targeted the striker’s West Lothian home — terrifying his pregnant girlfriend Debbie Lawlor who was inside at the time.
She was forced to flee the property, which the couple later quit for good.
And earlier that year his dad John was nicked by Dublin cops probing a turf war between crime gangs and the Real IRA.
The 55-year-old, was also ordered to take down a controversial banner from outside his pub in the city ahead of the Queen’s visit in May that year.
The poster, which included two pictures of the Queen, said: “As long as the British occupy one inch of this island they will nevere be welcome in Ireland.”
Celtic declined to comment on the nightclub brawl allegations last night.

http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/crime/fears-over-new-terror-mob-1927875

Fears over new terror mob after 20 dissidents booted out of New IRA

Gardai predict bloodshed as rival factions face off.

A deadly new terror mob is to form after more than 20 people were booted out of the New IRA.

Two brothers of slain Real IRA chief Alan Ryan were among those to get their marching orders by the faction-ridden movement’s Dublin leadership.

Gardai fear Anthony Ryan, 37, who was removed from the armed outfit and 30-year-old Dermot, who was expelled by the 32 County Sovereignty Movement, will set up a new organisation.

It’s the first major split in a recently formed merger since the so-called New IRA was formed last August 2012 after the Real IRA merged with Republican Action Against Drugs and a group of dangerous independents.

But it has been plagued by internal strife since Alan Ryan, 32, was gunned down near his home last September by a drugs gang.

A well-placed republican source said: “In the last month the whole thing has gone pear-shaped. More than 20 people have left or been kicked out by the new leadership.

“This is the first major split and it is likely to lead to more bloodshed.

“The people who left have access to guns and other equipment and they are still determined to get revenge for Alan Ryan’s murder.”

The Irish Mirror can reveal the row started with the selection of the new leadership in Dublin at the start of the year.

A number of these dissidents were arrested in March and are currently before the courts on serious charges.

Despite this the leader of the gang, who is originally from Tallaght, ordered a number of people close to Alan Ryan to carry out a punishment attack on a known drug dealer.

When they refused to carry out the attack they were expelled for “cowardice”, sparking a wave of further dismissals with many others opting to leave the mob.

Those leaving the group have accused the leadership of having a cosy relationship with drug dealers.

A senior republican said the removal of the Ryan brothers was “a major embarrassment for the group as Alan Ryan has been used as a martyr for the new group” and “essentially the face of the dissident gang”.

He added: “Now the leadership has thrown out his brothers and their pals, it is hard to see how they have any credibility whatsoever.”

Gardai suspect the new gang have already carried out one attempted hit. A political branch, named after Alan Ryan and dissident Ronan McLoughlin, is also likely.

In April, Dermot Ryan told the Irish Mirror that his family are victims of a Garda harassment campaign.

He said: “More people have been arrested in connection with the funeral of Alan Ryan than with his murder.”

Dermot’s older brother Anthony was previously jailed for three years on a firearms charge.

Both brothers attended an April commemoration for Ronan McLoughlin, who was shot dead by gardai in a botched raid in 1998.

Those leaving the group have accused the leadership of having a cosy relationship with drug dealers.

What a joke Alan Ryan gang were with Daniel Gaynor and new I.R.A was not about then.

http://www.thestar.ie/star/coalition-denies-eamon-kelly-was-member/

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/garda%C3%AD-investigate-suspect-punishment-shooting-of-former-real-ira-chief-1.1429365

Gardaí investigate suspect punishment shooting of former Real IRA chief
Detectives had warned man last year that they believed his life was under threat


Gardaí in Cork have begun an investigation after a leading dissident republican was wounded in the leg in what gardaí suspect was a punishment shooting by the Real IRA in the early hours of this morning.
Detectives were alerted when the man, who is in his 30s, presented at Cork University Hospital at about 1am with a gunshot wound to the leg.
They spoke briefly to him, but he declined to tell them what happened to him. He discharged himself at 5am.
Gardaí believe that the man, who is from Cork’s north side, but was living in west Dublin was the chief of staff of the southern command of the Real IRA up until about 12 months ago when he was deposed shortly before the murder of Dublin Real IRA leader, Alan Ryan.
A new faction took over the Real IRA intent on eradicating criminality and the Corkman, who is nicknamed the Beast, was suspected of stealing funds which the organisation had raised through protection rackets and extortion.
He returned to Cork but was known to be under threat from the new leadership under the command of a man from Lurgan in Co Armagh.
Last year gardaí advised the Corkman that they believed that his life was under threat.
However one informed source told the Irish Times the fact that the man was shot in the leg in a manner which would not leave him permanently disabled would suggest he had come to some agreement with his former comrades.
“There was no way, he would have gone to meet anyone unless he was sure of who he was meeting and what they were planning - it has all the hallmarks of a planned or arranged punishment shooting where he was told take his punishment and move on,” said the source.
In March, another senior Real IRA figure associated with the Alan Ryan faction, Peter Butterly from Dunleer, Co Louth was gunned down outside the Huntsman Pub in Gormanston, Co Meath.
Gardaí believe he was lured to his death in a set-up shooting by former comrades.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/irishsol/homepage/news/4969785/Ryan-pal-kneecapped-over-Real-IRAs-cash.html

A CLOSE pal of slain mob boss Alan Ryan has been blasted by the Real IRA in a punishment shooting over money.
The terror group’s leader in Cork — nicknamed ‘The Beast’ — was shot in the leg on Thursday night.
He was later brought to hospital but refused to make a complaint to gardai.
The shooting comes after he was warned by detectives last month that renegades were plotting to kill him.
The terror chief — originally from Dublin — was targeted by the New IRA faction after they launched a bloody purge on Ryan’s old cronies.
He was placed at the top of their hitlist after he was accused of keeping cash from the proceeds of profitable extortion rackets.
A source said: “The threat against him is very severe and he’s rarely spotted in public these days.
“He was very close to Ryan and the pair often held meetings in Cork to plot extortion rackets from drug dealers.”
And it would appear the Cork-based kingpin may have organised to undergo some friendly fire so he can get back onside with the new terror regime.
The source explained: “The Beast probably arranged to be shot by one of his associates as a punishment for keeping cash to himself.
“This man is nothing but a criminal and would have no intention of making a complaint to the Gardai.
“He’s desperate to get in the good books again and rejoin the ranks — and he’s very lucky he didn’t get a bullet in the head.” The latest threat comes after the Irish Sun revealed a new terror alliance had threatened to shoot Ryan’s cohorts in the ankles, knees and elbows because of their failure to obey orders.
Since he was warned of the threat, The Beast has been keeping a low profile in the country’s second largest city.
He was a major target for the Gardai’s elite Armed Support Unit and was regularly stopped and searched when he was out for his daily walks.
The heavily armed officers also staged checkpoints close to his home in a bid to disrupt dissident republican activity in the southern city.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/ira...ing-234197.html

IRA claims responsibility for Cork punishment shooting
Saturday, June 15, 2013
By Sean O’Riordan
The Real IRA has claimed responsibility for the “punishment shooting” of a 33-year-old old man in Cork City after claiming he was involved in “unrepublican conduct”.
The statement was issued on “behalf of the Cork Brigade of the [Real] IRA” following the attack which they say took place at “The Long Lane”, which is in the Dublin Hill/Ballyvolane area.

A senior garda confirmed that a man presented with an injury at Cork University Hospital at about 11pm last Thursday and they were satisfied he had been “the victim of a punishment-style shooting”.

His injuries were not described as not life-threatening.

The Cork 32 County Sovereignty Movement issued a statement after the shooting saying it had “been contacted anonymously by the (Real) IRA using a recognised codeword”.

The statement said the victim has served time in Portlaoise prison for IRA membership, but was subsequently acquitted.

After his release he moved to Dublin, but in recent times he has returned to live in his native Cork.

They said “he was shot in the leg for his unrepublican conduct”.

Meanwhile, in an unrelated incident, gardaí are searching for four masked men who burst into a house in North Cork, tied up the occupants and beat them.

Gardaí believe the attackers used sledgehammers to break down the door of the house at Carrigane, 1km south of Kilbehenny, at around 11pm last Thursday.

A husband, his wife, and a female relative, who are all in their 50s, were attacked and had to receive hospital treatment.

It is believed that the man may also have been hit by fragments of glass after a shot was fired through a window.

The raiders are understood to have escaped with a small amount of money.

Gardaí are examining CCTV and carrying out house-to-house inquiries in the area.

Anybody with information is asked to contact Mitchelstown Garda Station at (025) 84833.

In another, unconnected incident, gardaí in Gurranabraher are investigating who fired shots through the bedroom window of a house at Limewood Grove, near Onslow Gardens.

Three people were in the house, apparently watching television in a downstairs sitting room, and did not hear the shots fired.

It is believed that the gunman struck some time between 1.30am and 5.30am yesterday.

http://www.herald.ie/news/gang-boss-in-hiding-as-ira-enforcer-freed-29354557.html

Gang boss in hiding as IRA enforcer freed.

NIALL O'CONNOR – 18 JUNE 2013 02:30 PM

A NOTORIOUS IRA godfather is lying low in his plush Dublin home after walking free from prison.


Barry Fitzpatrick (70) is back on the streets after being locked up for almost three years for membership of the terrorist organisation.

Detectives are on high alert given the pensioner's reputation in the criminal network.

He was considered the chief enforcer in the Dun Laoghaire branch of the Provisional IRA before being jailed in February 2011.

Shadowy

Detectives are now keeping a close watch on his movements and believe that he is keeping a low profile in his Foxrock home.

Gardai have already gathered intelligence that suggests that a number of dissident figures are terrified now that Fitzpatrick is a free man.

One is a shadowy figure known as 'The Businessman', who is believed to be living in fear of Fitzpatrick.

The gang boss operates an extortion racket in Co Wicklow and is well known to gardai.

'The Businessman' is a close associate of murdered Real IRA boss Alan Ryan and used to work in Dun Laoghaire, where he encountered Fitzpatrick.

Sources say that 'The Businessman' has now gone into hiding.

"Whether he has reason to believe he is under threat or not, 'The Businessman' is terrified that Fitzpatrick is back out on streets. This situation is being kept under very close scrutiny," said a senior source.

Fitzpatrick was expelled from the criminal organisation following a feud with his associates and embedded himself among some of the breakaway factions.

The father-of-eight has three addresses in the capital – one in Foxrock and two in Ballybrack.

confidential

Sources fear Fitzpatrick will take advantage of the current clean-up operation taking place in the Real IRA and target whose who he believes have crossed him.

Detective Chief Superintendent Peter Kirwan, of Security and Intelligence, told the Special Criminal Court in December 2010 that he believed Fitzpatrick was an IRA member based on confidential information given to him.

The officer said Fitzpatrick had come to his attention 'at every rank' of his 33-year garda career.

A trial heard how Fitzpatrick was arrested shortly after 10pm on the night of January 4, 2009, as he tried to gain access to an apartment at the Ramparts complex in Loughlinstown, Dublin.

For several hours before his arrest, detectives had observed Fitzpatrick drive his grey Honda Accord estate between the Silver Tassie pub in Dublin 18 and the Ramparts apartment complex with two men.

He also drove in convoy and communicated with a green Honda Civic car, which was later stopped and searched by members of the Special Detective Unit and found to contain two ME .38 Sportwaffen revolvers and ammunition.

Detective Garda Bronagh Brogan told the court that, as she arrived to execute a search warrant on an apartment at the Ramparts at 10pm, a man emerged carrying a hold-all.

It was found to contain five revolvers identical to the kind uncovered during the search of the green Honda Civic car.

http://www.sundayworld.com/top-stories/crime-desk/ryans-rira-pal-quizzed-on-murder

Ryan's RIRA pal quizzed on murder.

GARDAI have quizzed a well-known Dublin dissident about whether he handed over information which led to the murder of terror chief Alan Ryan.

The IRA member was once a trusted member of the dissident group and was a close personal friend of slain Alan Ryan.

However, he was also heavily involved in buying and selling drugs and supplied information about RIRA operations to criminal gangs.

The Dubliner – who is in his 30s – regularly met members of a northside gang and also took cash “on the side” from drug dealers.

Now the double-crossing dissident has fallen foul of his former colleagues in the so-called New IRA, who became aware of some of his activities. He has since been expelled.

A source said he has not been arrested, but was questioned by gardai as part of their investigation into Ryan’s murder.

He was asked if he supplied details of Ryan’s movements on the day he was murdered. It is believed he has denied all involvement in Ryan’s murder.

The Northern-based leadership have stepped up their drive to “clean up” the terror group in Dublin in recent weeks.

Another well-known dissident – who rarely left Alan Ryan’s side – was also booted out last month by the new leadership after he pocketed €20,000 for his wedding.

The IRA man had taken the cash from protection money extorted from a drugs gang.

Three ex-Provos from Dublin, who are in their 40s, have been placed in charge of the New IRA in the south. They were chosen because of their loyalty to their Northern masters and their low public profile. It is believed they ordered the punishment shootings of two of Ryan’s closest pals – ‘Fat’ Deccy Smith and Nathan Kinsella.

Last month, Ryan’s two brothers, Anthony and Dermot, were also kicked out of the movement.

Meanwhile, a veteran republican suspected of involvement in the murder of three British soldiers has lashed out at the leadership of the New IRA who have taken over operations in Dublin.

Dissident Roisin Kane, whose son, Ronan McLoughlin, was shot dead by gardai during a Real IRA raid in Wicklow in 1998, has accused the new leadership of being gangsters.

She said that under the new leadership the IRA is now “a gangster-ridden movement that only fosters fear into those who do not carry out their totally unjust orders”.

Kane, previously known as Roisin McLoughlin, was suspected of being one of two IRA women who lured four British soldiers to a flat in Belfast with the offer of sex in March 1973.

Having set the honey-trap, the two women left and two IRA gunmen burst in and shot three of the soldiers dead.

A number of dissidents made internet attacks against Kane over her statement.

By Niall Donald and Alan Sherry

http://www.thesun.ie/irishsol/homepage/n...in-his-way.html

Alan Ryan’s killer is out of control.. He’ll whack anyone who gets in his way
Thug's death threats

Hitlist ... thug who gunned down Ryan, above, is flexing his muscles
EXCLUSIVE
By STEPHEN BREEN
Published: 23rd June 2013
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A CLOSE friend of drugs godfather Christy Kinahan has fled to Spain after being threatened by the killer of Real IRA boss Alan Ryan.
The Irish Sun can reveal the businessman, from north Dublin, bolted to the Costa del Sol after being warned he was on a hitlist.
Kinahan’s associate — who was also close to caged drugs kingpin Philip Baron, 57 — was threatened after Ryan’s killer vowed to take control of the capital’s drugs business. The maniac has been flexing his muscles in recent weeks after returning to Dublin and was caught in the south inner city before Christmas with a tracking device.
Gardai believe he was targeting one of Ryan’s cronies who had just moved to the area.
The latest threat has now led to fears of a bloodbath between Kinahan’s mob and the north Dublin drugs gang.
A source said: “The man who ordered Ryan’s killing is out of control and remains determined to run everything in Dublin.
“Kinahan’s friend was warned he was in danger and that’s why he went to Spain where he would feel safe. The threat just goes to prove how much power Ryan’s killer has and it’s only a matter of time before someone else gets killed.
“Kinahan doesn’t want any trouble and has told his associate to stay in Spain until any differences can be resolved.”
Kinahan’s fearful pal has been a key target for the Criminal Assets Bureau in the past.

Warning ... Kinahan, left, and Rattigan
He owns a string of apparently legitimate businesses around Dublin which he uses to launder drug cash.
At one time, his connections to the Dapper Don would have been enough to scare off any rivals.
But Kinahan, who is currently under investigation for money laundering and drug trafficking in Spain, cannot afford to get caught up in any violence.
His drug operations were severely weakened by the arrest of Baron, who received an 18-year sentence in Britain last week. And the criminal mastermind knows cops are watching his every move.
Meanwhile in another shock development in the underworld, we can reveal how an enforcer for caged crime boss Brian ‘King Ratt’ Rattigan is now running a heroin racket in Dun Laoghaire.
The thug has gone into business with a local criminal who has just been released from prison.
The pair are warning local dealers they are now running things in the area and have vowed to wipe out rival gangs.
The Irish Sun’s source said: “Rattigan’s friend moved to the town because he was under threat in south inner city Dublin.
“He has a new lover in Dun Laoghaire but has now taken control of the heroin business with a local man.”
The source added: “The pair are warning other dealers they’re in charge now and gardai are fearful of an attack because of Rattigan’s friend’s thirst for violence.”

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/dru...d-29366890.html

Alan Ryan: Real IRA boss was shot dead last year
TOM BRADY SECURITY EDITOR – 24 JUNE 2013

GARDAI have uncovered the main drugs distribution depot used by a trafficking gang whose leader is suspected of ordering the murder of Real IRA boss Alan Ryan last year.


The depot was uncovered in a business park in west Dublin at the weekend after a surveillance operation by the garda national drugs unit.

Inside, gardai found over 100kg of cannabis herb and resin with an estimated street value of at least €1m.

They also seized more than 100 boxes which had previously been filled with drugs and over 20 pallets of material used to disguise the drugs as they were being imported.

The find was made at the North West Business Park in Blanchardstown and gardai believe the shipment had been imported from Spain, disguised as a consignment of olive oil.

Officers believe that since Christmas, the gang has been responsible for half-a-dozen shipments of cannabis and ecstasy, imported from either Spain or the Netherlands.

The weekend seizure resulted from surveillance that was set up by gardai immediately after a different shipment had been uncovered in the area in recent weeks.

TRAFFICKING

Armed detectives detained a 39-year-old man from Drogheda at the scene and he was taken to Blanchardstown garda station for questioning under the drug-trafficking legislation.

He was later released from questioning but was immediately rearrested in connection with a warrant linked to another offence and was taken to Mountjoy jail. A file on the weekend haul will now be prepared for the DPP, who will determine if criminal charges should be brought.

Gardai said last night that investigations into the find were continuing and there could be further arrests.

This is the sixth consignment of drugs to have been seized by the national unit in the past year from associates of the gang leader, who is from the northside of Dublin and is regarded as heading up one of the biggest organised crime groups in the country.

He is believed to have ordered the hit on Alan Ryan last September because of an ongoing feud between the two gangs as the terrorist boss tried to intimidate him and other top criminals into handing over a slice of their profits from drug trafficking, robberies and extortion rackets.

Ryan's murder was the culmination of a series of armed confrontations between thugs linked to the two groups.

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/wom...n-29375476.html

TOM BRADY – 27 JUNE 2013

THE wife of a suspect for the murder of gangland godfather Eamon Kelly is being questioned by gardai.


The woman, in her mid-30s, was detained by armed officers in Crumlin on the southside of Dublin at midday yesterday.

Gardai said she was being questioned in particular about alleged possession of firearms around the time of the murder.

She is originally from Tallaght and her husband is on a shortlist of suspects drawn up by gardai investigating the fatal shooting last December. He has not been charged in connection with the murder.

Kelly was shot as he walked towards his home at Furry Park Road in Killester. The murder is believed by gardai to be linked to an ongoing feud between organised crime gangs and associates of the Real IRA.

Irish Independent

http://www.herald.ie/news/mum-quizzed-on-murder-of-veteran-criminal-kelly-29378042.html

Mum quizzed on murder of veteran criminal Kelly.

KEN FOY, CRIME CORRESPONDENT – 27 JUNE 2013 02:30 PM

A WOMAN in her early 30s remained in garda custody today after she was arrested by detectives investigating the murder of veteran criminal Eamon Kelly.


The Tallaght woman, who is the mother of young children, was arrested in the Crumlin area.

She is being questioned on suspicion of withholding information in relation to the savage gun murder of Eamon Kelly in Killester, north Dublin, last December.

She was being held at Clontarf Garda Station last night and is the third woman to be arrested in relation to the high profile murder.

A senior source told the Herald: "Her arrest is part of an information gathering exercise by the investigation team. More arrests are planned including a man that is well known to her. She's not suspected of having taken any active part in the murder."

A total of eight people have been arrested as part of the murder investigation.

Sean Connolly (34), of Bernard Curtis House, Bluebell, Dublin 12, has been charged at the Special Criminal Court with murdering Kelly at Furry Park Road, Killester, on December 4, 2012.

Firearm

Connolly was also charged with IRA membership on the same date and with possession of a firearm on the same occasion. He is currently on remand in Portlaoise Prison.

Earlier this month, it emerged that Connolly will indicate how he intends to plead to the charge at Special Criminal Court next month.

Eamon Kelly was considered the godfather of Irish crime because he was involved in serious organised criminality for over four decades. He mentored modern-day gang bosses like slain gangster Eamon 'The Don' Dunne, and had a close friendship with former INLA chief Dessie 'Border Fox' O'Hare.

He was the first person of significance ever to be convicted for trafficking cocaine into Ireland. Not surprisingly, Kelly was a long-term IRA target.

The 65-year-old gangster – who spent his days drinking in a local pub and placing bets in a nearby bookies shop – had previously cheated death when the Real IRA tried to murder him in September, 2010.

At Kelly's funeral mass in Killester, Dessie O'Hare said in a rambling church speech: "I would like to emphasise the sacredness of Eamon's life as a reflection of Christ's life.

"Eamon, as you know, had suffered. Jesus, too, was sent by his father to suffer."

http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/crime/bodybuilder-sean-enright-back-training-1979775

Sean Enright back training six weeks after gunman shot him four times


Bodybuilder nicknamed 'The Man of Steel' after recovering from hit.

Hardman bodybuilder Sean Enright is back training in the gym – just six weeks after being shot four times.

The 31-year-old, who was riddled with bullets as he entered the gym he runs on May 15, has been nicknamed The Man of Steel by friends after
surviving the assassination attempt.

It’s not long since the amateur cage fighter, who is close pals with jailed gangster Alan “Fatpuss” Bradley, was getting lifesaving surgery at Dublin’s Mater Hospital.

Now Enright is telling friends on Facebook that he is back training and on a mission to get back in top shape.

But he said that starting out again has been hard work.

He posted on Facebook this week: “Wrecked after training but thanks to nutrition I will be flying”.

It’s understood that Enright is hoping to one day get back to competing in bodybuilding and cage fighting competitions.

A source said: “It’s just over six weeks since he was shot and left for dead and already he is back training. It’s going to be a long hard road for him but he is determined to get back in shape.

“Fitness is his life and it’s something he is not willing to give up.

“He’s finding the training hard at the moment following the surgery but give him a few months and he will be back in top physical shape.”

Enright was shot up to four times by a lone gunman just before 11am as he entered the gym he runs in Glasnevin, North Dublin.

It is understood he was targeted by the gang once controlled by slain RIRA gang boss Alan Ryan over an ongoing turf war with some of Enright’s pals.

It is believed he had been warned on several occasions in recent months his life is in danger.

Enright has survived several attempts on his life over the years.

He was blasted five times in the chest, twice in the right arm and once in the hand as he sat in a car outside his girlfriend’s house in Clonsilla, West Dublin, in January 2011.

In 2008 he was stabbed while working as a doorman at a pub in Tallaght, South Dublin.

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Gangster at top of RIRA hit list files for bankruptcy in UK.

KEVIN DOYLE – 01 JULY 2013 02:30 PM

A GANGSTER who tops a Real IRA hit list has declared bankruptcy in the Britain.

A
Kildare criminal Troy Jordan gave an address in a seaside town in Lancashire, in northern England, on documents submitted to the UK courts.

Gardai believe the 43-year-old is one of the most serious players in the drug-trafficking world and is under threat from a number of different criminals here.

The Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) previously won a tax judgement against him for €800,000.

Earlier this year, Jordan was reportedly one of a dozen gangsters summoned to meetings with the Real IRA, who demanded protection money to enable him to continue his drug-dealing racket. However, he refused to hand over any cash.

Jordan's bankruptcy is likely to raise eyebrows in the criminal underworld, where he has made some major enemies.

It has emerged that the criminal mastermind, who was previously described in the Irish courts as a horse trader, was declared bankrupt at Blackpool County Court on May 31.

Along with a UK address, Jordan listed a previous residence as Allenwood South, near Naas, Co Kildare.

According to the UK Insolvency Service an official receiver has been appointed to handle his case.

The move means that not only will Jordan avoid going through the Irish courts – where he recently lost a challenge to his CAB tax settlement – he will also be discharged from bankruptcy in May of next year.



Resigned

Under current Irish law, bankruptcy lasts for 12 years.

Jordan's business links over the years have included Martin 'Viper' Foley and Geraldine Gilligan, ex wife of jailed drug dealer John Gilligan.

Along with Foley, Jordan helped to found Viper Debate Recovery and Repossession Services in 2005. He resigned as a director in June 2010. During her legal battle with CAB over the Jessbrook Equestrian Centre in Enfield, Co Kildare, Geraldine Gilligan told the High Court in 2008 her only income was €5,000 per annum that she received from Jordan "for grass".

Despite having a massive criminal pedigree, Jordan has managed to avoid incurring any major convictions to date.

He has forked out significant amounts of cash to the IRA in the past, when it was being run from Dublin by Alan Ryan.

However, after Christmas, he decided to take a different approach with new leadership of the Real IRA in Dublin.

Jordan not only refused to do a deal, he verbally abused the dissident godfathers before leaving. His life has been under threat since.

He was twice arrested by officers investigating the brutal gun murder of Latvian mum Baiba Saulite.

His battle with CAB, which seizes the proceeds of crime, began in 2005 when they demanded a tax payment of €800,000 for activities between 1992 and 2003.

Jordan challenged the assessment on the grounds that there was no information on which to prepare an appeal but, ultimately, lost the case.