United Criminal Alliance-U.C.A. is a breakaway organization from
the Criminal Action Force group they have killed a number of IRA people over an extortion racket run by Real IRA.

Late 2010 September was the first time the group did make a public statement when it claimed responsibility for two gun attacks, players lounge shooting and Daniel Gaynor .
http://www.herald.ie/news/i-waited-for-gunman-to-finish-me-off-27957797.html over the last 3 years a number of other people have been killed names in next link.

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

Breakaway Organization, since April 2013.

United Criminal Alliance-U.C.A. put out a public statement which said most of the Criminal Action Force members had left the group to set up their own Organization called United Criminal Alliance-U.C.A. they said because a founder member had done something with the Real IRA and he was on his own.

I have a link to an exclusive story in todays Irish Star page 24 on the United Criminal Alliance-U.C.A. the fact that they have not gone away like other poster was thinking.

http://imgur.com/nwDwX48

Double click Sean South you will see WARNING: THE UCA GROUP OF CRIMINALS FORMERLY CAF.

The warning is to the Real IRA in Galway and Sligo.

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/i...-feud-1.1477477


Kinsealy shooting linked to dissident republican feud
Gardaí appeal for witnesses to incident at Russell Terrace.

A man is recovering in hospital after being shot and wounded in what gardaí believe is an internal feud within the dissident republican movement.

The injured man was a close associate of Alan Ryan, the leader of the Real IRA in Dublin who was shot dead last September near his home on Donaghmede, north Dublin.

Gardaí believe many of Ryan’s former associates are now being targeted after the leadership of the dissident republican movement in the north questioned their commitment to terrorism ahead of for-profit criminal activity.

The latest victim of that purge was wounded at around 11pm on Saturday during a gun attack at a house at Russell Terrace, Kettles Lane, Kinsealy, north Dublin. The victim, a 27-year-old from Tallaght in west Dublin, was visiting is girlfriend when attacked.

His injuries are not life threatening and he was taken to Beaumont Hospital, where he was still undergoing medical treatment last night.

The injured man had just been released from prison. He was convicted of possession of a firearm in an usual incident where he and another man claimed they were about to save a woman from her ex partner.

They were caught in north Dublin in 2009 - with a firearm and were wearing balaclavas and rubber gloves - before they had a chance to attack the man.

In the period since the murder of Alan Ryan a new alliance of dissident organisations called the New IRA has emerged and has attacked a number of Real IRA members in the Republic, murdering one man and knee capping and wounding others.

The murdered man was Peter Butterly (35) from Dunleer, Co Louth. A suspected terrorist, he was shot dead in an ambush outside the Huntsman Inn, Gormanstown, Co Meath, in March.

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/cro...h-29470810.html

JIM CUSACK – 04 August 2013
A BITTER feud has broken out between mainly Northern-based dissident republicans and their former associates in Dublin over drugs and smuggled cigarette money.

Gardai now fear a bloodbath between the two heavily armed factions – who both have access to deadly explosives, missiles and assault rifles. The feuding was sparked by an attempted murder in north Dublin last weekend. This came just hours after three Russian-manufactured assault rifles were seized by gardai in the south of the city. Gardai recovered three AK-47 assault rifles along with six full magazines, a handgun and several hundred rounds of ammunition in an apartment in the Coombe area. No arrests were made.

The seizure came shortly before an attempt was made to murder a former close associate of the Dublin 'Real' IRA figure Alan Ryan, who was himself assassinated as part of a feud with a north Dublin drugs gang last September.

The feuding stems from growing anger among so-called dissident republican prisoners in Portlaoise and in jails in Northern Ireland over revelations at the extent of the earnings among the mainly Dublin-based 'republicans' from the drugs and smuggled cigarette trade.

It recently emerged that one of the dissidents' main "finance officers" was closely associated with major criminal figures and was importing millions of euro worth of drugs, including heroin, and cigarettes.

This man, who was recently jailed for possession of a substantial quantity of drugs, had become a major heroin trafficker and had been living in Co Wicklow and living a playboy lifestyle.

http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/crime/republicans-plotting-huge-march-mark-2189126

Republicans plotting huge march to mark death of IRA boss Alan Ryan

20 Aug 2013 07:00
Dissidents plan to honour slain leader on anniversary of his killing.

Republicans are planning a huge commemoration to mark the first anniversary of Real IRA chief Alan Ryan’s murder.

Dissident leaders are confident thousands of supporters will flock to Ryan’s North Dublin home and grave for the ceremony next month.

The tribute will be organised and run by the 32-County Sovereignty Movement, the political branch of the Real IRA.

A heavy Garda presence is expected to counter any repeat of scenes witnessed at Ryan’s funeral last September.

A spokesman for the Dublin 32CSM said: “We will be marching from Alan Ryan’s home in Grange Abbey Drive [Donaghmede] to his grave. We are expecting a huge crowd.

“People are coming from everywhere to this. There are even people coming from abroad for the march.”

Ryan was gunned down as part of a dispute with drug dealers last September as he walked near his home. At the 32-year-old’s funeral gunshots were fired over his coffin at his home before masked dissidents escorted his remains to the grave.

This sparked a public outcry with 17 people including Ryan’s four brothers being arrested days later. Justice Minister Alan Shatter described the funeral display as “reprehensible and absolutely unacceptable”.

He added: “Paramilitary trappings should not blind people to the fact that what is at issue is criminal terrorism carried on by people who, for their own reasons, want to drag the people of this island back to a dark past.”

Following Ryan’s death there was a major split in the Real IRA in the capital and earlier this summer up to 20 dissidents were booted out of the group.

Ryan’s brother Anthony, 37, was among those who got their marching orders by the movement’s Dublin leadership.

But a 32CSM spokesman claimed the political group is now reformed.

He said: “We are all working together now. A number of people were suspended from the organisation but there are still a lot of members there.”

http://www.herald.ie/news/gang-that-shot-ryan-imploding-over-drug-busts-29517525.html

Gang that shot Ryan imploding over drug busts.

KEN FOY – 21 AUGUST 2013 02:30 PM

THE gang that ordered and carried out the murder of Real IRA terror chief Alan Ryan is imploding over fears of a garda informer in their rank.

The "tightly-knit and highly organised" crew have been left reeling after a number of major garda successes against the mob.

The north Dublin gang – who are linked to seven murders, a spate of tiger kidnappings and importing tens of millions of euro worth of drugs – have been thrown into a state of chaos after a lengthy surveillance operation by the garda organised crime unit.

The Herald has learned that the gang's leader and one of his most trusted associates have had a "major falling out" in recent days as concern grows about the gang boss's "paranoid state of mind."

Monitored

"He is getting more paranoid by the day. Everyone in the organisation is feeling major stress because of the heat that gardai are putting on them.

"Their movements are being very closely monitored," a source explained.

Gardai are now monitoring the dispute between the feared gang boss and his former mate who was previously involved in a bitter row at a Dublin car wash with a notorious Coolock-based Traveller criminal last March.

The gang murdered Alan Ryan last September, following a bitter feud with his Real IRA mob, which had been going on for around a year before Ryan was shot dead in Clongriffin.

The backdrop to the tension within the mob is the staggering amount of drugs seized from it this year.

Last month, detectives seized €250,000 worth of cocaine after they stopped and searched a car in Ballymun.

The bust happened only weeks after around €1m worth of cannabis was seized at a warehouse in Blanchardstown. The Blanchardstown operation was led by the Garda National Drugs Unit.

The cannabis herb and resin had been imported from Spain, disguised as a consignment of olive oil.

Paranoia

The Herald has previously revealed that many of the main players in the north Dublin gang are based in Spain's Costa del Crime where they have teamed-up with other Irish gangs to import vast quantities of drugs here.

In May, €1.7m worth of drugs was seized at a house in Donabate, Co Dublin, after an operation by the Store Street Garda Station drugs unit – the haul was made up of €1m worth of ecstasy and €700,000 worth of cannabis herb. A month earlier, almost €3m worth of heroin and a machine gun was seized at a vacant house at Garryross in Virginia, Co Cavan.

A source added: "No wonder there is such paranoia within their ranks – gardai have had some great success and all the specialist units continue to lean on them.

"This includes the Criminal Assets Bureau who are compiling lists of their assets and studying their financial transactions."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/riskmap/2013/08/14/lurking-not-acting-real-ira-remains-a-threat/

Lurking Not Acting, 'Real IRA' Remains a Threat.

By John Nugent

BELFAST, Northern Ireland — The recent spate of violence by Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland, primarily directed against local police, may seem like an unwelcome blast from an unhappy past. Indeed, since the 1998 Good Friday accords, which ended decades of bombings, assassinations and rioting pitting the mostly Catholic Irish Republican Army (IRA) against pro-British “Loyalist” paramilitaries, peace has generally reigned in Northern Ireland.

But sporadic clashes have occurred, mostly around the disputed routes of parades organized by each community in commemoration of highly divisive events. One such earlier this month, organized by Sinn Fein, the political wing of the demobilized IRA, was disrupted as it moved through a predominantly Protestant neighborhood. Police responded to bricks and other missiles with rubber bullets and water cannons. In the end, some 26 police were injured.

Even with such outbreaks, police and intelligence services generally agree that the main protagonists in the four decades-long “Troubles” – the so-called Loyalist militia groups and the main body of the Provisional IRA itself — have stayed mainly on the sidelines. Most believe the IRA – the “provos” in local parlance – have now committed permanently to the political process, as evidenced by their sustained engagement, prominent place in the provincial government and consistently good showings at the polls. The hardline Loyalist groups took longer to quell, but they, too, have, in the main, acceded to the peace accords.

The Real IRA and other splinter groups rejected the Good Friday accords, however, and soon afterward Real IRA carried out the single most lethal bombing in the province’s history at Omagh in 1998. To date, the group has not changed its determination to keep violence as an option. While large-scale attacks against targets in England appear to be a thing of the past, dissident factions like the Real IRA continue to plan and sporadically attempt lethal operations against targets in Northern Ireland and further afield. Given their continued activity, it is worth a deeper look at the Real IRA, its roots and its recent history.

Michael ‘Mickey’ McKevitt was in charge of the IRA’s armoury before he and his common-law wife, Bernadette Sands-McKevitt (sister of hunger striker Bobby Sands), created the Real IRA. A year after its emergence and four months after the Good Friday Agreement, the Real IRA conducted the August 1998 Omagh bombing, in which 29 people died when the group detonated a 500lb (225kg) explosive device during an annual street fair. Such was the opprobrium that followed, including public censure by other dissident organizations including the IRA and Sinn Fein, that the Real IRA declared a ceasefire that lasted around 18 months, before resuming terrorist operations in early 2000.

McKevitt was arrested in July 2001 – when the group’s operational tempo was at its peak – and subsequently sentenced to 23 years’ imprisonment. The arrests of key members, such as director of operations Liam Campbell, and penetration of the organization by informants significantly weakened the Real IRA. Its last major bombing campaign on English soil was in 2001, when attacks were either undertaken or attempted at the BBC TV Centre in London in March; a sorting office in London first in April and then in May; in Ealing, London in August; and in Birmingham city Centre in November, resulting in injury to nine people in total. From Portlaoise prison, McKevitt and other imprisoned members in 2002 called for the group to stand down; the order was apparently disobeyed.The Real IRA is an offshoot of the Provisional IRA (IRA) formed in 1997 by hardline elements opposed to negotiations being pursued by the IRA and Sinn Fein, its political arm. It sought to derail the peace process and bring about the end of British sovereignty over Northern Ireland through force.

The Real IRA continues to operate in both Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic, where its establishment of a base for criminal activity in the capital Dublin has worsened inter-gang clashes in the city’s criminal underworld and brought about a substantial rise in the number of pipe bombs discovered there over recent years. While it remains intent on targeting England, MI5 (internal security service)’s downgrading of the threat from dissident republican organizations from ‘substantial’ to ‘moderate’ in October 2012 underlined that, though an attack by the Real IRA and other groups is possible, it is not assessed to be likely.

The Real IRA is now thought to be comprised of fewer than 100 people, with its political department – the 32 County Sovereignty Movement based in Londonderry – adding further numbers, though members publicly disavow links to the group. It is unclear how a merger between the Real IRA, Republican Action Against Drugs (RAAD) and other smaller armed collectives into a ‘unified structure’ called the IRA Army Council or ‘New IRA’ in July 2012 has affected the Real IRA in an organizational sense, though despite talk of a ‘single leadership’ group’s composition is likely to be unchanged. This ostensible formation of a ‘new IRA’ has brought few of the benefits that the Real IRA envisioned when it signed up for this union however, with splits reportedly having become particularly pronounced within the Dublin faction and bouts of discord seemingly set to characterize the organization’s future course.

Current attack patterns are likely to persist, with the Real IRA successfully undertaking a handful of assassinations each year, but more substantial operations in Northern Ireland involving the use of heavier explosive devices are likely to be almost uniformly thwarted. The organization has suffered from the death, departure or arrest of seasoned commanders, which have reduced its overall levels of operational tradecraft and sophistication, and new recruits appear driven as much by financial considerations arising from the Real IRA’s movement into criminal activity as firmly-held ideological motivations.

John Nugent is an analyst at Control Risks, the global political, integrity and security risk consultancy.

http://www.herald.ie/news/gardai-on-alert-for-anniversary-of-ryan-murder-29541580.html

CONOR FEEHAN – 31 AUGUST 2013 07:00 AM

DISSIDENT republicans will be prevented from making any military display marking the first anniversary of the murder of RIRA terror boss Alan Ryan.

Teams of gardai are already working undercover to monitor known criminals who might plan a commemoration.

Members of the Special Detective Unit, backed up by plain-clothes members of local stations around Donaghmede and the wider division, have stepped-up security in advance of the September 3 anniversary.

Ryan (32) was shot dead as he walked with friends near his home in Clongriffin, north Dublin.

VOLLEY

There was a national outcry when a volley of shots was fired over Ryan's coffin as it was led from his house for his funeral mass on September 9.

Gardai were strongly criticised for failing to intervene when dissidents dressed in black berets and military clothing fired shots into the air in broad daylight.

Justice Minister Alan Shatter described the funeral display as "reprehensible and absolutely unacceptable".

There was also local criticism when his associates placed black flags on lamp posts around the area and prevented residents from accessing Grange Abbey on the day he was buried.

"Ryan's murder was a very high profile killing and sparked a lot of tension within criminal gangs and subversive sympathisers all over the capital," said one source.

"Now that the first anniversary is approaching there will be a lot of garda activity around north Dublin, and subversives will be monitored just to make sure that a lid can be kept on any potential security situation," they added.

It is expected that plain-clothes gardai will be patrolling and monitoring areas around north Dublin and there will be a more visible garda presence in estates in Donaghmede and Clongriffin over the coming week.

MASSIVE

There have been reports that the 32 County Sovereignty Movement plan a massive march from Ryan's Donaghmede home to his grave on his anniversary next Tuesday.

His murder was organised when a number of the most dangerous gangs in the capital clubbed together after Ryan extorted money from them and engaged in a campaign of violent harassment.

He was killed when two gunmen opened fire on him and one of his associates.

A car carrying what gardai believe were two gunmen pulled up and at least one passenger got out and started firing at Ryan. His friend Aaron Nealis was shot in the leg.

Michael o'Toole Journalist,

Gangster BB member you write crap in your Irish Star paper seen a story today can't get a link on your site were you said two criminals got Ryan killed last year you said Criminal Action Force did the hit so what you now have two storys ?

His murder was organised when a number of the most dangerous gangs in the capital clubbed together after Ryan extorted money from them and engaged in a campaign of violent harassment.

http://www.herald.ie/news/gardai-on-alert-for-anniversary-of-ryan-murder-29541580.html

link, sounds like your story last year.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/l...h-29546366.html

03 SEPTEMBER 2013

Garda chiefs have ordered a major security operation to prevent a paramilitary display marking the first anniversary of murdered Real IRA crime boss Alan Ryan.

Up to 300 officers, including the Emergency Response Unit and a riot squad, have been detailed to police a memorial march by dissident Republicans to Ryan's grave on Saturday.

Detectives have also stepped up surveillance of known RIRA thugs who are planning a "grand gesture" by murdering the north Dublin gang boss who ordered Ryan's execution to coincide with the anniversary.

Officers recently uncovered a cache of weapons close to Clontarf garda station which they believe was going to be used to shoot the criminal when he signed on as part of bail requirements for a separate offence.

Ryan, who was heavily involved in organised crime, was shot dead on September 3 last year as he walked with two friends through Clongriffin in Dublin.

Dissident Republicans staged a major paramilitary display at the funeral and a volley of shots was fired over the coffin outside Ryan's home in Donaghmede.

Thugs dressed in military garb closed off the north Dublin suburb and then marched behind the hearse to Balgriffin cemetery followed by hundreds of Republican sympathisers.

But Commissioner Martin Callinan is determined that these scenes will not be repeated on Saturday.

At the time Justice Minister Alan Shatter said the paramilitary display brought the country back to the dark days of the Troubles.

In the aftermath of Ryan's murder tensions escalated as his associates swore to avenge his death.

The two leaders of a notorious drug gang, who organised the dramatic hit, left the country soon afterwards.

In the aftermath of Ryan's murder tensions escalated as his associates swore to avenge his death.

No United Criminal Alliance-U.C.A. members were ever killed over the Ryan hit or any other hits for that matter, no Criminal Action Force members was killed ether tensions escalated, to what.

The two leaders of a notorious drug gang, who organised the dramatic hit, left the country soon afterwards.

In fact the criminals are the main power and are in the country mts walking around the place after the avenge Kelly hit the homes of the rest of the Ryan crew visited by gunmen from the Criminal Action Force,Kelly was not a C.A.F membersee links, interesting to watch over the next few weeks.

A GROUP calling itself "Criminal Action Force" was responsible for four attempted murders last weekend in retaliation for the murder earlier this month of the leading criminal figure, Eamon Kelly, by dissident republicans.

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/criminal-gangs-target-real-ira-over-kelly-killing-28950875.html

MASKED criminals attacked the family homes of associates of Alan Ryan threatening to kill them. The move marks a new confidence among criminal figures feuding with the Real IRA in Dublin. Three homes were targeted last Saturday as part of the intimidation campaign.

http://www.sundayworld.com/top-stories/crime-desk/investigations/mr-big-targets-rira-gangsters

Coalition denies Eamon Kelly was member.

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

http://www.herald.ie/news/fifteen-gangsters-behind-ryan-murder-29548324.html

Fifteen gangsters behind Ryan murder.

KEN FOY – 03 SEPTEMBER 2013 02:30 PM

AT least 15 gangsters planned the murder of RIRA boss Alan Ryan a year ago today, gardai believe.

A number of Ryan's girlfriends were also being watched in the weeks leading up to the killing.

On the anniversary of his murder, the Herald can reveal:

* Two months of planning went into the daylight killing, involving around 15 major gangsters.

* Senior figures within the Real IRA were aware an attack was imminent.

* Surveillance was carried out on Ryan and his many girlfriends in the weeks before the murder.

Ryan's ex-girlfriend Emma Maher (inset left) visited his grave yesterday which was covered in flowers.

Gardai have also ruled out one of two notorious brothers who have carried out a spate of gangland murders over the past decade.

Sources told the Herald that the killers were aware of Ryan’s every move during August and September last year.

“Intelligence has come in that there were a number of meetings between one of the leaders of the gang who had Ryan murdered and Ryan's bosses in the North,” a senior source explained.

“The crime organisation warned the senior dissidents that they would ‘take care' of Ryan if he and his cronies did not stop ripping them off and attacking them.

“They were warning Ryan's bosses that they would kill Ryan and yet nothing was done to stop them.”

Detectives also believe that at least one of Ryan's closest associates was involved in drugs and giving information to the crime gangs that clubbed together to murder the terror chief.

This criminal is now facing serious charges before the courts.

And they have been thrown out of the IRA which has been in a state of turmoil since Ryan was shot dead near his home in Clongriffin on September 3 last year.

Yesterday, on the eve the anniversary of his death, Ryan’s ex-girlfriend paid a special visit to the gang leader’s graveside.

Emma Maher (29) left two simple balloons at the grave which was covered in wreaths of flowers in the colours green, white and orange.

The highly decorative black marble gravestone bears the inscription: ‘Vol. Alan Ryan, Dublin Brigade IRA, Died 3rd September 2012 aged 32 years. RIP’

The gang who murdered Ryan are one of Ireland's biggest crime cartels who specialise in drugs trafficking, tiger kidnapping and armed robberies – they are led by two notorious north Dublin criminals.

All of the gangsters who were involved in the plot are still alive and have not been targeted in any meaningful way by the newly formed IRA grouping which has emerged since the start of the year.

Sources say that this is “extremely significant”.

“Look at it this way, a lot of these gangsters are now just walking the streets without a care in the world – they don't seem at all bothered about the IRA or their capabilities,” they explained.

“It should also be noted that in the past year virtually all of Alan Ryan's close associates have been booted out of the organisation including his older brother Anthony.”

Shooting

The garda investigation into the murder is ongoing and senior sources say that the gangland hit was “one of the best organised” in recent years.

“The shooting was far from a spur of the moment thing. It was planned for many weeks and even up to two months,” a source told the Herald.

“Cars and apartments were all sorted in advance – flight tickets were booked – it was a large enterprise involving criminals acting in a disciplined and determined way.

“These lads carried out their own surveillance on Ryan and had a great handle on his movements.

“They were watching as he spent many of his evenings visiting his string of girlfriends and they were obviously watching as he walked down Grange Lodge Avenue on the day of the killing.

Gardai have not identified the actual gunman but have been investigating a small list of names.

The gunman who is described as “very tall” was wearing a disguise and was caught on CCTV from a medical vehicle when he shot Ryan and his pal Aaron Nealis from Sligo who was hit in the leg in the gun attack as they walked on the road with a third man who was uninjured.

Sources say that the investigation team have not ruled out the involvement of a foreign criminal in the murder but describe it as “unlikely.”

Two months of planning went into the daylight killing, involving around 15 major gangsters.

Criminal Action Force or United Criminal Alliance-U.C.A. members.

You can take it the the Real IRA fear the 15 major gangsters and will do not much to them, you would think that Ryan was the only person killed by the 15 major gangsters in the feuding with the Real IRA, We know that up to 6 other people were killed before Ryan by the gangsters alliance and a lot more people have injuries from gun attacks by the criminals alliance and lived to tell the tale.

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/real-ira-leaders-grave-vandalised-29560841.html

JEROME REILLY – 07 SEPTEMBER 2013

The grave of Real IRA Dublin leader Alan Ryan was desecrated overnight, heightening tensions ahead of a memorial march and ceremony to mark the first anniversary of his death.

Ryan was shot dead by a masked gunman close to his home, while walking with two other men at Clongriffin in north Dublin last year.

More than 300 gardai including the Emergency Response Unit and sections of the riot squad are on standby ahead of the memorial march to Ryan's grave this afternoon

Red spray paint was used to vandalise the grave with the insult “Rat Scum” painted on the headstone. Other family keepsakes and small memorials were also defaced.

The attack on his grave at Balgriffin cemetery was discovered by members of Mr Ryan’s family who immediately began a clean up ahead of the ceremony.

In the aftermath of Ryan's murder tensions escalated as his associates swore to avenge his death.

The two leaders of a notorious drug gang, who supporters of Alan Ryan believe organised the murder, left the country soon afterwards.

http://www.herald.ie/news/ryans-pals-stage-a-dress-rehearsal-for-march-in-cemetery-29560608.html

NIALL O'CONNOR – 07 SEPTEMBER 2013 07:00 AM

ASSOCIATES of murdered Real IRA boss Alan Ryan held a menacing graveyard dress rehearsal ahead of today's commemoration.


Ryan's pals stage a dress rehearsal for march in cemetery.

Pals of the terror chief met in Balgriffin graveyard last night and prepared for the march under cover of darkness.

Officers from the Emergency Response Unit (ERU) and the riot squad were today on high alert for the prospect of criminal behaviour during the demonstration.

Several well-known republican figures, including dissident Gary 'Donzo' Donnelly, are expected to turn out at the march.

Donnelly was jailed for seven months in 2010 after losing his appeal against convictions for assaulting and obstructing a police officer.

TOLERANCE

Senior garda management has demanded that a "zero tolerance approach" is taken to any form of public order or criminal activity.

"Gardai are prepared for all possibilities and we are ready to move if we get any sign of trouble," a senior source explained.

Dozens of garda barriers were laid out today in preparation for any unruly behaviour at the march. Gardai are aware that a group of Ryan's pals entered Balgriffin graveyard last night. They were seen practicing for today's march – which is beginning at the Ryan family home on Grange Abbey Drive.

Our pictures show Ryan's brother, Dermot, holding a ladder close to the home as a male associate hung a tricolour.

Dermot Ryan was one of a number of family members and loved ones of the gang boss who visited his grave on his anniversary.

Gardai are particularly concerned about the attendance of well-known dissident figures at the event.

Organisers have requested that attendants were black and white.

"We will assemble at Alan's family home at Grange Abbey Drive and march to the graveyard. We would like to ask can every republican to wear black and whites. A function will follow afterwards. All genuine republicans welcome, Beir Bua," organisers said on Facebook.

Sources say that because of the "robust policing plan" that will be in place tomorrow, it is hugely unlikely that there will be similar scenes to what happened at Alan Ryan's paramilitary funeral last September when a volley of shots were fired over his coffin.

Today's commemoration will leave Ryan's family home at Grange Abbey Drive at 2.30pm before marching to Balgriffin Cemetery.

http://www.herald.ie/news/no-overtime-for-gardai-to-help-solve-murders-29558533.html


No overtime for gardai to help solve murders.

KEN FOY CRIME CORRESPONDENT – 06 SEPTEMBER 2013 02:30 PM

GARDAI have not been allocated even one additional hour of overtime to investigate Dublin's latest gangland murders.

The shocking gun slayings happened just five days apart in west Dublin last month – but so far there have been no arrests.

Jason Carroll (39) was murdered on Thursday of last week and Dean Johnson (21) was shot dead 13 days ago.

But sources say the investigation teams have been hampered due to a lack of overtime resources.

A senior source explained: "It should be no surprise to anyone that there have been no arrests – the investigation teams have been told that they cannot take a single hour of overtime as they try to solve these cases.

"This is an unprecedented and frankly ridiculous situation for the gardai dealing with these two murders."

The source explained that there is "no money left in the garda budget for overtime in these cases or any other for that matter.

"There can be no doubt that the situation is compromising the investigations – it is destroying continuity," the source said.

"For example, if you have a detective who has been in the middle of the investigation for a number of days, when his four days off work come up, he is off and that is the end of it until he comes back to work. When he gets back five days later, the investigation has moved on.

"There is huge frustration within the force and this is all about not getting enough resources from the Department of Justice – this is a new situation and not a good one."

LINKED

Both shootings happened in the Clondalkin area and gardai have established that they are linked to each other.

Senior sources say that gardai are now satisfied that the first shooting victim, Dean Johnson, was not the intended target and that he was shot dead by mistake instead of a notorious criminal who he had been socialising with earlier on the night of August 23.

The intended target is a Clondalkin-based criminal who is the chief suspect for the unsolved murder of a young man called Dean Johnston (not related) who was shot dead in May 2011, in Neilstown.

Sources say that associates of this "extremely violent criminal" then organised the murder of Jason Carroll after he blamed Carroll for trying to shoot him in the gun attack that claimed Johnson's life.

Jason Carroll was shot six times with a high-powered handgun outside his home in Cherrywood Drive at around 10.30pm last Thursday.

Carroll, who was strongly linked to a number of serious criminals, was an extremely close friend of Daniel Kinahan – the son of the leader of Ireland's biggest and most dangerous drugs syndicate, Christy Kinahan.

It is not known if Daniel, who is based in Spain's Costa-Del-Crime, will attend Carroll's funeral tomorrow.

Gardai are braced for further bloodshed at the weekend after receiving reports that Carroll's faction are intent on a bloody revenge.

But the criminal who organised his murder is believed to now be in hiding at a rural location.

Meanwhile, it emerged last month that there would be fresh garda cutbacks, which were signalled to garda management by the Department of Justice.

They were brought in as part of a drive in the public service to find €1bn in savings under the Haddington Road Agreement.

Garda management is hoping the deal negotiated with the rank-and-file Garda Representative Association and the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors will help to offset some of the cuts.

Concessions include members of the force up to the rank of inspector working 30 hours a year without pay instead of sustaining a wage cut implemented on more senior ranks.

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/one...w-29561352.html

One year after Ryan's murder, threat of new terror campaign is low
With gangs feuding over spoils of drugs trade there is little risk of renewed 'republican' violence, says Jim Cusack.

08 SEPTEMBER 2013

A YEAR after the murder of Dublin "republican" gang leader Alan Ryan the threat of any renewed terror campaign by dissident republicans has collapsed amid feuding over spoils from the drugs trade.

Before he was killed by a coalition of Dublin criminals who had been the subject of his violent extortion demands, Alan Ryan was coming under pressure from the leadership of a re-organised dissident republican group, including former members of the Provisional IRA, to provide them with funding.

The leadership of the group, dubbed the "New" IRA, was demanding that Ryan hand over €300,000 from the extortion and drug dealing rackets he had come to control in Dublin.

Ryan was enthusiastic about the new terror group which was planning attacks on police in Northern Ireland and considering a bomb attack in Britain, possibly at a British Army base, according to sources. He began assembling the cash they had demanded.

Ryan was a republican since his teens when he joined the "Real" IRA. He was arrested at an arms training camp in Co Meath and supported a renewed terror campaign. Despite this, he found no contradiction in trading in drugs and demanding money from other dealers. He also found no conflict with supposedly traditional republican values and living the high-life of a drug trafficker. He had expensive foreign holidays and had a string of girlfriends, fathering two children from two of them.

The "New" IRA group he became affiliated to recruited former bomb makers from the Provisional IRA who had begun manufacturing bombs and mortars identical to those used in the Provisional IRA campaign up to 1997.

A week before his murder, he attended a meeting with the leaders of the group which was led by a former Provisional IRA prisoner from West Belfast. As well as providing the €300,000, Ryan was involved in staging the robbery of high-velocity hunting rifles from a dealer near the village of Ashford, Co Wicklow, for use in sniper attacks on police and soldiers in Northern Ireland.

The robbery went ahead, three weeks after his murder, and most of the 28 rifles stolen remain unaccounted for. Three were found by gardai in a car belonging to one of Ryan's associates two weeks after his murder.

Ryan was in the process of assembling the €300,000, proceeds of drug trafficking and of extortion demands from a large number of other drug dealers in Dublin, when he was shot dead outside his home in Clongriffin, north Dublin, on September 3 last year. The €300,000 never reached Northern Ireland.

After his death Ryan's racketeering and drug trafficking organisation collapsed.

Most of the money remained missing. In response, other members of Ryan's gang began informing on the new organisation, allowing gardai to make substantial weapons discoveries and leading to the crushing of the "New" IRA.

Simultaneously, the PSNI and the British security service, MI5, also made major arms seizures and arrests in Northern Ireland. The threat from the "New" IRA, which was formed only in July 2012, has been effectively countered and the organisation broken up, according to gardai. An attempted mortar attack on a PSNI station in Derry city in March was thwarted as was a massive car bomb attack, aimed to kill PSNI officers, in Belfast a week later.

In July this year gardai recovered 15kg of Semtex explosive and assorted weapons that had been acquired by the new group from one of the Provisional IRA arms dumps that had not been decommissioned. Two weeks later gardai also seized 350,000 ecstasy tablets and 80 kilos of cannabis that had been imported into Ireland by Ryan's gang.

As well as being up to his neck in drugs trafficking, Ryan had spread his extortion rackets across the city. Up to last year he had operated largely in the north Dublin suburbs where he lived. But as his notoriety spread Ryan extended his rackets across the city to the Crumlin-Drimnagh and Tallaght areas.

He had a deserved reputation for violence, chopping off the fingers of two men who had refused his extortion demands. Middle-ranking drug dealers in Dublin were paying Ryan €20,000 on a regular basis for his protection. He also ensured that drugs brought into Ireland by his associates were being sold by these dealers.

Gardai believe Ryan had reached the point where he was challenging to become the main drug supplier in Dublin. This brought him into direct conflict with several long-established and heavily armed gangs. These gangs are supplied with drugs and weapons from the middle-aged Irish criminals based in the south of Spain.

With millions of euros at stake, up to 15 of these gangs came together to decide Ryan's fate. A contract – understood to have been €30,000 – was placed on his head.

In the end, according to well-placed garda sources, the contract was taken up by a heroin addict from north Dublin who was acquainted with Ryan's movements. Ryan was remarkably lax about his personal security and had a near-daily routine of driving from his home in Balgriffin to his mother's home in nearby Donnycarney. He was murdered as he was walking from his car by a lone gunman who walked up behind him, shot him in the back and then fired another shot into his head. The gunman calmly walked away to a waiting car. No one has been charged with his murder.

Although some 2,000 people attended his paramilitary funeral, complete with a volley of shots over the coffin and a graveside oration extolling his supposed dedication to the cause of re-unifying Ireland, Ryan had brought the mantle of Irish republicanism to the point where, gardai now say, it is indistinguishable from common drug-fuelled criminality.

The attempt to re-launch the terror campaign has failed and northern elements eventually were only able to grab a fraction of the €300,000 Ryan had promised to donate to the "cause". The northern-based elements, who have some support in Dublin, attempted to murder one of Ryan's remaining associates. He was shot twice but survived.

Sean South, take note.

Gardai believe Ryan had reached the point where he was challenging to become the main drug supplier in Dublin. This brought him into direct conflict with several long-established and heavily armed gangs. These gangs are supplied with drugs and weapons from the middle-aged Irish criminals based in the south of Spain.

With millions of euros at stake, up to 15 of these gangs came together to decide Ryan's fate. A contract – understood to have been €30,000 – was placed on his head.

Up to 15 gangs came together to decide Ryan's fate, Now Sean,

not what you was making out just A GANG that would be around a few mts heavily armed gangs get it.

http://www.herald.ie/news/guns-bombs-seized-in-ryan-crew-swoop-29574321.html

Ken Foy Crime correspondent – 12 September 2013 02:30 PM
FIVE men with links to murdered terror boss Alan Ryan – including a suspected member of the colour party for his anniversary march – have been arrested.

Armed gardai recovered guns, ammunition, components for pipe bombs and four cars as part of a major surveillance operation.

The five men – all in their 20s – remained in custody in three separate Dublin garda stations last night. They include two young criminals who survived gun attacks in the past year.

Investigating officers will now try to pin IRA membership charges on the five men.

A senior source said: "To call these fellas a motley crew is an understatement – what they all have in common is an allegiance to the Alan Ryan IRA faction which has been decimated in recent months.

"They have well over 200 previous convictions between them and have been long-term targets of the Special Detective Unit.

"The fear was that they were planning to murder someone or certainly carry out an attack," the source added.

The men were detained after the two cars they were travelling in were stopped near Ashford, Co Wicklow, shortly after 4am yesterday. In follow-up searches, a woman in her 20s was arrested in Ballymun.

Apart from the duo who survived assassination attempts, two of the other arrested men are notorious Traveller criminal brothers who have been involved in the manufacture and distribution of pipe bombs.

The fifth man is a Kosovan national who is based in Dublin's north inner city and is suspected to be a member of the colour party at Alan Ryan's commemoration last weekend

The other four are all based on the capital's northside.

http://www.herald.ie/news/murdered-ryans-pal-on-memorial-march-despite-death-threats-29558519.html

Murdered Ryan's pal on memorial march despite death threats.

KEN FOY – 06 SEPTEMBER 2013 02:30 PM

A close pal of slain Real IRA terror chief Alan Ryan is expected to be a prominent figure at a commemoration tomorrow, despite being under a death threat.

Derek Nolan (31) has returned to Ireland and is understood to be staying in Ryan's family home ahead of tomorrow's dissident Republican march.

The march will begin at the Ryan home in Donaghmede and continue to Balgriffin Cemetery.

Up to 300 officers, including the Emergency Response Unit and a riot squad, have been detailed to police the memorial march, which will also be attended by a number of well-known dissidents from the North.

Among those expected to attend is Gary 'Donzo' Donnelly (42) from Derry, who, like Nolan, was a very close friend of Ryan.

He is also under active death threat from the new IRA leadership, which formed after Alan Ryan's murder and has purged many of Ryan's closest associates from the organisation.



COLLAPSED

Donnelly was jailed for seven months in 2010 after losing his appeal against convictions for assaulting and obstructing a police officer.

In 2008, the trial of four Derry men – including Donnelly – dramatically collapsed at the Special Criminal Court after it was ruled that their initial arrests were unlawful.

Senior sources say that another prominent dissident Republican expected at the event is Anthony Beggs (49) from Balyfermot who was jailed for five years in 2000 after he shot the husband of his ex-girlfriend in December 1998.

Beggs was previously released from jail in 1995 under the terms of the Good Friday agreement – he was initially jailed for 10 years in 1990 for his role in a bank robbery in Enniscorthy, Co Wexford.

Sources say that because of the "robust policing plan" that will be in place tomorrow, it is hugely unlikely that there will be similar scenes to what happened at Alan Ryan's paramilitary funeral last September when a volley of shots were fired over his coffin.

Tomorrow, the commemoration will leave Alan Ryan's family home at Grange Abbey Drive at 2.30pm before marching to Balgriffin Cemetery.

Organisers have requested that black ties be worn.

The Herald this week revealed that senior figures within the Real IRA were aware an attack on Alan Ryan was imminent in the weeks before he was shot dead.

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/gang-effort-to-storm-dail-link-to-terror-boss-29596565.html

JIM CUSACK – 22 SEPTEMBER 2013

A GROUP of dissident republicans with links to slain terror chief Alan Ryan tried to break into the Dail last week before causing widespread chaos that brought the capital to a halt.


The Sunday Independent today unmasks the shadowy group – which styles itself the Irish Republican Voice – who brought misery to tens of thousands of commuters on Wednesday.

Consisting of a few hundred individuals, the group has been actively trying to recruit in Dublin over the past month. Despite their tiny numbers, they managed to infiltrate a larger protest outside the Dail organised by socialist Richard Boyd Barrett and bring traffic to a standstill in the city centre.

A number of the dissidents were arrested following violent clashes with gardai, but they have since been released without charge.

There are now fears that the group – buoyed by its success in shutting down the city – is planning to employ similar "Belfast-style" tactics in future confrontations.

On Wednesday, a hard core of 40 to 50 of Ryan's supporters were forced back by gardai after they tried to force their way into the Dail in the morning and caused disruption at several locations in the city centre.

They invaded the GPO, shouted insults outside the Sinn Fein offices in Parnell Square and then targeted the Central Bank before blocking traffic for nearly two hours at Bachelors Walk, causing a two-hour gridlock.

Their attempt to storm the Central Bank was stopped by a quick-thinking garda on a bicycle who rode ahead of them and had the gates shut.

The Irish Republican Voice was formed last year after yet another split between warring dissident republican factions. It has been putting up posters with a mobile phone number around Dublin in an attempt to recruit members, but the group remains relatively small. It was at the centre of most of the disruption as the Dail reconvened after the summer recess.

Gardai south of the Liffey were well prepared for protests on the opening day of the Dail. An "anti-austerity" rally was applied for at 6.30pm in Molesworth Street opposite the Dail by the People before Profit group led by TD Richard Boyd Barrett. Several other legitimate groups took part in that rally, during which there were arguments with the mob linked to Ryan.

The Ryan group and two other small dissident republican groups tried to hi-jack the legitimate protest. When they grabbed barriers to try to ram their way through the garda cordon outside the Dail, gardai used pepper spray on the ringleaders.

Ryan's supporters were present in the south city centre from 5am on Wednesday, trying to find ways of getting into the Dail.

Gardai said their intention was to force their way in to grab international headlines and gain maximum notoriety.

But their attempts failed and gardai arrested three people after violent clashes throughout the day.

While gardai from the Pearse Street District, which covers the Dail, were ready for disruptive protests, this was not, apparently, expected north of the river in the Store Street District, which is where the traffic disruption took place during rush hour.

The blocking of O'Connell Street at Bachelors Quay took an hour and 45 minutes to break up as there were not sufficient numbers of gardai available to deal with the protesters. Tens of thousands of people were held up, with buses and cars stranded.

Gardai now expect the dissidents will attempt further disruptive activity on next Budget Day, October 15.

The Irish Republican Voice was formed earlier this year by associates of Ryan, who was shot dead near his home in Balgriffin, north Dublin, last September. Four of his close associates were shot and injured in the months after his murder.

Gardai believe a group terming itself the 'New Real IRA' was responsible. The dissident republican elements are deeply split.

http://www.thestar.ie/star/uca-denies-attacking-alan-ryans-grave-34012/


United Criminal Alliance denies attacking Alan Ryan’s grave

Alan Ryan A SHADOWY group claiming to be a coalition of criminals has claimed responsibility for two murders — but angrily denied desecrating the grave of slain Real IRA boss Alan Ryan.


Desmond

DEATH: Desmond

In an exclusive statement to The Star, the so-called United Criminal Alliance (UCA) — which says it represents hundreds of gangsters in Dublin and beyond — claimed the murders of Alan Desmond and Karl Wynne.



The body of criminal Desmond (38) was found in a field on Killinarden Hill in Tallaght, south Dublin, on May 18. He had been shot in the head in a gangland-style execution. Then, on May 30, notorious criminal Wynne (45) was gunned down on Mountain Park Road in Tallaght.






He suffered serious head injuries and died from his wounds on July 19.
Killed



Sources say gardai had no information of a link between the killings, but now the UCA has claimed responsibility for both in a statement to The Star. It said the men were killed because they were seen acting suspiciously outside the home of one of its members in north Dublin.



A UCA spokesman said: “Alan Desmond and Karl Wynne were executed after a UCA investigation was undertaken into CCTV footage showing the two men were concealing themselves in the
Wynne

SLAIN: Wynne

back garden of one of our members in Cabra.



“On further inspection two handguns were found in the undergrowth.


Assaults







“Harassment or assaults on any of our members by anyone will be met with a full military response.”

The spokesman also issued a warning to members of a notorious Sligo crime gang who are in dispute with the UCA that they would meet the same fate. The spokesman told members of the Sligo gang to “take note”.





The UCA, previously known as the Criminal Action Force (CAF), was set up three years ago to counter Real IRA extortion attacks on criminals in Dublin. It has claimed responsibility for the of murder of RIRA boss Alan Ryan (32) — but has angrily denied having any part in a recent attack on his grave.Graffiti accusing Ryan of being an informer was sprayed in red paint on the grave.

Alan Ryan headstone

The UCA spokesman said: “UCA had no part in the Alan Ryan grave attack and whoever did it should be ashamed of themselves.”

http://www.thestar.ie/star/criminal-group-we-are-ready-to-kill-rira-pirates-34932/

Criminal group: We are ready to kill RIRA ‘pirates’

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THIS is the latest show of strength by an outfit claiming to be a nationwide coalition of gangsters.

The so-called United Criminal Alliance (UCA) was set up three years ago to counter extortion demands on gangsters by the Real IRA.

Here, it displays what appear to be four firearms — and the group has again said that it will protect its members.

The gang, set up in Dublin in late 2010, claims to have established networks as far away as Sligo.

Revolver

And the UCA, which has claimed responsibility for several murders in Dublin, has also vowed in an exclusive statement to The Star that it has the means to defend its pals.

Five masked members of the outfit posed with what appear to be a sawn-off shotgun, two semi-automatic pistols and a revolver — as well as more than a dozen shotgun cartridges.

There is no way of knowing if the weapons are real or replicas.

A UCA member told The Star: “If there is any Real IRA aggression against UCA members, we will not simply be bystanders.

“With regard to pirate acts by the Real IRA members on criminals, we will be forced on our part to take measures we consider necessary and adequate in order to protect our rights.

“We have everything necessary to do so.”

Just last month, the UCA claimed responsibility for two murders — but angrily denied desecrating the grave of slain Real IRA chief Alan Ryan (32).

The group claimed the murders of Alan Desmond and Karl Wynne.

The body of criminal Desmond (38) was found in a field at Killinarden Hill in Tallaght, south Dublin, on May 18 this year.

He had been shot in the head in a gangland-style execution.

Stash

Desmond went on the run after a weapons stash was found close to his home in Kilclare Avenue, Tallaght, at the end of April.

Officers recovered three rifles, a handgun, two sawn-off shotguns and a large amount of ammunition.

Desmond, who had a previous firearms conviction, was the subject of a Garda manhunt over the find.

Gardai believe he was killed shortly after he went on the run.

Then, on May 30 this year, notorious criminal Wynne (45) was gunned down as he stood outside a shop at Mountain Park Road in Tallaght.

He suffered serious head injuries and died from his wounds on July 19.

The UCA, previously known as the Criminal Action Force (CAF), said both men were killed because they were seen acting suspiciously outside the home of one of its members in north Dublin.

The group has also claimed responsibility for the murder in September last year of RIRA chief Alan Ryan — but said it was aghast at the attack on his grave.

Is Real IRA located in the USA (Cells, Factions?)? If so where?

Not a chance. They will have personal contacts through Irish workers but they don't have the kind of clout that the Provos had at their height.

When they go abroad now they go to Eastern Europe.

The Real IRA is run in its totality by MI5.if you guys think the American Mafia is riddled with informers then you can't even imagine what the Real IRA is like. It is essentially run as a way of getting angry young men off the street and into gaol and as a training exercise for MI5. Ireland is now a testing ground for them and they use the Real IRA to refine their tactics.

Dang, that would be pretty cool if they would set up here. I would think Boston and South Louisiana would be prime stomping grounds.

In what way would it be cool?

The existence of physical force Republican groups isn't a laugh or something that's fun to read about on a website dedicated to charting the lives of criminals, they are the result of a situation which causes great pain to Irish people - namely the occupation of the northern part of the island of Ireland by a foreign force and their planters. It isn't something cool, it is something extremely serious.

As for setting up in America - the current groups are as weak as piss. As I said before, thye don't have the ability to sniff one of their own farts without the security forces knowing about it. They'd have no chance in Boston or Louisiana if they can't even operate in Belfast. Maybe the Continuity IRA are still viable as they have more pedigree and a stronger political wing, but even they have wisely decided to keep a lower profile. They appetite is not there for war anymore. To take someone's life for the cause of an Irish Republic you have a certain responsibility to them that it is for a reason, part of a campaign, working towards an end...the recent deaths are irresponsible attempts to keep an ideology (anti-Treaty, anti-Good Friday Agreement, non-constitutional, physical force Republicanism) alive.

They should put down the guns until the time is right.

I am Catholic AND I SUPPORT the IRA until ALL of Ireland is freed from British Occupation. That means get their happy asses out of Northern Ireland then I will be content. Ireland is fighting the same fight America did 250 Years ago, No difference.

And it would be "cool" because I support them and would provide shelter and money to any of them that stand for a free Ireland.

You are painthing with a very broad brush there.