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Re: United Criminal Alliance-U.C.A. Ireland. [Re: abc123] #772725
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There is two factions claiming Republican Continuity I.R.A. in Ireland, rogue Limerick faction were expelled from the I.R.A. a number of years ago but still claim to be the Continuity I.R.A.
Were as the main body of the Continuity group and everyone else do not take the claims of the Limerick faction serious at all.

We will just have to wait and see how they get on with the U.C.A. now on their case not long ago the Limerick faction was doing statements to Óglaigh na hÉireann in Belfast threatened them.



Statement From General Headquarters (GHQ) C.I.R.A.‏
(Anonymously received by Saoirse Nua)

Over the past number of weeks, an organization known as Óglaigh na hÉireann has in the Belfast area, issued threats against Volunteers of the Continuity Irish Republican Army and even gone so far as to attempt to attack the family homes of these Volunteers. It has been stated by Óglaigh na hÉireann in Belfast that the motivation for these threats and attacks is Óglaigh na hÉireann’s intention to force the C.I.R.A. to end its campaign of armed resistance against British rule in Ireland. If Óglaigh na hÉireann and their political organization wish to go down the road of politics and surrender, this is their own choice; they will not force the C.I.R.A. to follow them in their abandonment of the struggle for Irish freedom. The leadership of the C.I.R.A. take a very serious view of this situation and take this opportunity to make the following point. The Leadership of the C.I.R.A. will not allow the safety of any of its Volunteers to be jeopardized by any organization. If any Volunteer of the C.I.R.A., member of their family or their homes are harmed there will be immediate and severe retaliation. If any attacks are carried out against our people, the perpetrators of these attacks can expect the same and harsher treatment in return.
The C.I.R.A. have no interest in feuding with other Irish Republican organizations, as the only one who will benefit from such feuds is the British occupier. We also make it clear that while this behaviour has only emanated from Óglaigh na hÉireann in Belfast, the C.I.R.A. is a 32 county organization and we will be holding the leadership of Óglaigh na hÉireann responsible for this behaviour. Some of the people knocking on the doors of our Volunteers in Belfast representing Óglaigh na hÉireann have in the past been victims of punishment beatings and shootings from the organization they now represent. We view it as abhorrent that individuals of such character should turn up at the homes of and try to intimidate well-respected and veteran republicans who in some cases have served long sentences in British Prisons for their commitment to the cause of Irish freedom. Many have tried in the past to force the C.I.R.A. to end its armed struggle against British occupation, such as the Provisional's did in 1986 and at various points throughout the 90's and 2000's , the Provisional's failed and so will any organization that tries today. Irish republicans have faced down over 800 years of brutal British occupation along with many years of Free State oppression, this has not defeated us and neither will the current behaviour of this group in Belfast.
The only explanation for the actions of Óglaigh na hÉireann in Belfast is that they have become heavily infiltrated by British agent’s intent on damaging the capability of Irish Republicans to carry out attacks against the British forces of occupation in Ireland. The current situation has all the hallmarks of one created by the British intelligence services. The C.I.R.A. has stepped up its campaign of resistance to British rule in the 6 occupied counties in the last number of months with various bomb and gun attacks throughout the occupied area. These attacks have included the bomb attack on the railway lines at Finaghy Halt on the outskirts of Belfast, a bomb attack on a British Territorial Army base in Belfast along with a bomb which was planted in a sports bag in Belfast city centre before Christmas which brought central Belfast to a stand still, which Óglaigh na hÉireann have spuriously claimed responsibility for. The leadership of the C.I.R.A. now state that this campaign of resistance to British rule in Ireland is set to continue and will increase in intensity in the coming months. The leadership of the C.I.R.A. also state that we are actively targeting the prison officers of the British forces of occupation who brutalise and torture Irish Republican Prisoners Of War who are being denied by these prison officers the political status they are entitled to as Prisoners Of War, in British concentration camps such as Maghaberry in occupied Ireland. The C.I.R.A. reaffirm our commitment to rid Ireland of the cancer that is British rule. The military campaign of the C.I.R.A. will continue as long as one member of the British forces of occupation remains on Irish soil. The leadership of the Continuity Irish Republican Army convey the following message to Óglaigh na hÉireann in Belfast, the safety of our Volunteers, their families and their homes is paramount to us; we will protect them by whatever means necessary.

Statements ends.

http://www.rsflimerick.com/

Republican elements in Limerick and Dublin were mixing at Sean South commemoration 2014 in Limerick.

http://www.limerickleader.ie/news/community/parades-in-limerick-call-for-return-to-republican-ways

A colour party drawn from all over the 32 counties led the RSF parade, which also saw attendance from the Irish Republican Voice Movement.




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http://www.sundayworld.com/top-stories/crime-desk/convicted-drug-dealer-linked-to-car-bomb

Pal of mobster Greg Lynch is suspected of ordering botched bombing.

A convicted drug dealer with links to mobster Greg Lynch is suspected of ordering the botched bombing which destroyed a car in Dublin’s south inner city.

The high-powered bomb exploded after being placed under an SUV on Long Lane in Dublin 8 last Sunday night

A 21-year-old criminal was seen by locals “dripping in blood” as he fled the scene after the bomb exploded in his hands.

Witnesses claim the man wrapped part of his clothing around his arm and hand and clutched it to the side of his head, which was “roaring red”.

Gardai believe the bombing was ordered by a south inner city criminal who is in his 30s.

The man is well-known to gardai and previously served a lengthy prison sentence for drug smuggling offences a number of years ago.

He was also charged with involvement in a high profile gangland crime, but was acquitted by a jury following a trial.

He has links to mobster Greg Lynch and is particularly close to the heroin trafficker’s “right hand man”.

However, Lynch’s gang are not suspected of involvement in the bombing and detectives believe the motive was
personal.

The owner of the vehicle is not involved in crime of any type and was targeted solely because of a friendship he had developed with a local woman.

The 21-year-old was seen stumbling from the scene and getting into a taxi on the junction of New Street and Clanbrassil Street.

Supt Dave Taylor of the Garda press office has appealed for anyone who may have collected the suspect to contact them.

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Pair guilty of having guns in pencil caseREMANDED.

TWO men have been found guilty by the Special Criminal Court of the possession of two loaded handguns found inside a pencil case.

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http://www.sundayworld.com/top-stories/news/breaking-man-shot-six-times-in-ballymun


Man shot dead in Ballymun knew he was under threat.

A well-known window cleaner was blasted six times as he cycled to work in Ballymun this morning.

The man, who is known to gardai, had known his life was in danger and told gardai that he had been threatened by two notorious criminals from Finglas.

The victim, who has been named locally as John O'Regan (48), was originally from Finglas and is believed to have moved to Ballymun because of the threats.

He was so concerned for the safety of his partner and son that he bought a double barrelled shotgun but this was taken from him because he did not have a licence, according to sources.

sundayworld.com can reveal that the victim was a witness in two separate murders in Ballymun in 2003 and 2006. He came forward with information about the murder of Michael Scott, who was shot dead on Sillogue Road in April 2003 as his girlfriend looked on in horror.

He was also a witness to the murder of Gregory Rowan who was fatally assaulted in Ballymun in August 2006.

He is known to gardai for offences such as assault and criminal damage but he was not regarded as a serious criminal.

The man he named to gardai as having made threats to him is a notorious criminal who has been linked to at least three gangland murders.

The victim of the shooting worked as a security guard and window cleaner. He was shot dead by a lone gunman at around 8.45am on Gateway Avenue, Ballymun about 8.45am.

The injured man was brought to the Mater Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

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Man shot dead in Ballymun escaped chainsaw murder attempt last week.

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http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/cira-vows-to-execute-top-criminals-265795.html

CIRA vows to execute top criminals.

The Continuity IRA has threatened to execute “drug dealers and criminals” if they try to harm members of its organisation.

An emailed statement to the media purporting to be from CIRA, and which was signed off with a code word, referenced a newspaper article published last weekend in which a group calling itself the “United Criminal Alliance” threatened “Limerick republicans”.

The article in the Daily Star said the alliance had claimed responsibility for the murder of the dissident republican Declan Smith, a friend of slain Dublin Real IRA leader Alan Ryan.

It contained a statement from the alliance which said: “It has come to our attention that members of the Alan Ryan gang are now working with a Limerick gang styling itself Continuity IRA, which threatened Dublin criminals. We will be pursuing the extortionists no matter where they try and hide themselves. We want no more excuses — you have five working days to hand the extortionists over to us or face the inevitable consequences. There will be no intimidation by the Limerick gang.”

Last night’s email from CIRA said: “The dissemination of false accusations along with making threats against members of the Republican Movement will not be tolerated and those responsible for this behaviour will be located and will face severe consequences.”

It said it was not involved in “and is completely opposed to” extortion rackets against criminals.

“It is the opinion of the leadership of the Republican Movement that those who engage in the act of extorting money from criminals are just as bad as the criminals and drug dealers they extort money from.

“These drug dealers and criminals are a cancer on Irish society, and those who extort money from them, and in return allow these criminals and drug dealers to continue their despicable activity are contributing to inflicting the scourge of drugs and crime upon the Irish people.”

However, it said threats made against members of the republican movement were viewed very seriously.

“We now re-state that the CIRA are committed to protecting our volunteers... The CIRA now warn the drug dealers and criminals who style themselves as the ‘United Criminal Alliance’ and are responsible for these threats and false accusations, if any attempts are made by you to harm in any manner, members of the CIRA, their homes or their families, the perpetrators of these attacks will face execution.”

It added that it would also “execute numerous prominent criminals and drug dealers throughout Ireland as a deterrent against further attacks”.

“The CIRA is a 32-county organization and have the ability to strike at will against these criminal and drug dealing elements. The CIRA now order this criminal gang styling itself ‘United Criminal Alliance’ to disband and desist from their nefarious activities immediately or face annihilation.

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Discovery proves how dissidents are extorting money from criminals.

GARDAI discovered a signed confession from a drug dealer outlining how he paid ‘protection money’ to the RIRA when they raided Nathan Kinsella’s home, the Sunday World can reveal.

The confession – which was handwritten by a north Dublin drug dealer – included details of cash paid to five separate RIRA members.

The evidence was due to be aired in court last week, where Kinsella was facing charges of IRA membership, and would have caused the supposed anti-drug dissident group significant embarrassment.

However, he changed his plea to guilty at the last minute in the Special Criminal Court, and evidence was not heard. He was jailed for two years on Thursday.

The document outlined in detail the role played by five senior dissident leaders – including Kinsella – in extorting cash from criminal gangs.

It also detailed the amounts of cash handed over – as well as dates and locations when the drug dealer and some of his pals met with RIRA chiefs.

A source told the Sunday World that Kinsella’s carelessness in holding on to the document lead to his expulsion from the RIRA.

“It had the potential to destroy the so-called Republican movement’s reputation as anti-drugs. If he hadn’t pleaded guilty, it all would have been made public in court,” said a source.

Kinsella was a senior figure in the RIRA in Dublin, and was a close personal friend of slain dissident boss Alan Ryan.

Last week the Sunday World revealed how he had been ostracised by his fellow terrorists in prison, where officers fear for his safety.

He was placed in isolation in Portlaoise Prison after being shunned by both his comrades on the RIRA landing and other criminals whose associates he extorted money from.

Gardai believe Kinsella was playing “both sides of the field” while Ryan was alive and had regular contact with criminal gangs in north Dublin.

Kinsella was arrested after a Garda investigation into paramilitary activity at the funeral of Alan Ryan, who was gunned down on a street near his home in Donaghmede on the city’s northside in September 2012.

Intent on making a martyr of the extortionist and murderer, the Real IRA planned and carried out a chilling show of force against the authority of the State and arranged a colour party and a volley of shots over his home.

Kinsella was closely linked with dissident hardman ‘Fat Deccy’ Smith, who died after he was shot outside a crèche in Donaghmede three weeks ago.

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

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

Issued, 15/04/2014.

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My money is on the U.C.A. to give them a hiding.

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Top Conto in Belfast just got biffed tonight. Something more for you acts to cream yourselves over!

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Prominent dissident republican shot dead in west Belfast.

MICHAEL MCHUGH – UPDATED 18 APRIL 2014 11:27 PM

A prominent dissident republican has been gunned down in broad daylight in Northern Ireland.

Tommy Crossan (43) was shot dead in the grounds of an industrial complex in West Belfast, in full view of surrounding houses, a local representative said.

A priest attended to pray over the bloodied victim in an area long known as a republican heartland but which has been relatively peaceful in recent years following the end of the IRA campaign in 1998.

Nationalist SDLP councillor Colin Keenan said: "We have long hoped that the shadow of death had been lifted from West Belfast.

"Today's event is a terrible, tragic reminder of the violent conflict of the past."

Crossan was reportedly the Continuity IRA's former leader and was believed to be the subject of a death threat from his former allies.

The organisation has opposed the peace process which largely ended three decades of violence and transformed the region.

The attack happened at the Peter Pan Centre in Springfield Road, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said.

The road, one of the main arterial routes, has been closed to traffic.

Family members have arrived and are said to be devastated.

A PSNI spokesman said: "Police are investigating a fatal shooting in the Springfield Road area of West Belfast this afternoon.

"One man has been shot dead in the vicinity of the Peter Pan Centre."

The largely-nationalist area of Belfast is mainly made up of tightly-packed terraced housing estates and businesses.

Mr Keenan said it was a horrific scene.















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Tommy Crossan, shot dead in Belfast has big links to the Limerick faction,

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Doubt he would be particularly linked with any 'faction'. He was a bit of a head case by all accounts, but also had the balls to take on the Brits in armed conflict. Along with another volunteer he did time for shooting up the barracks in Andytown, not long after the Provo ceasefire.

Heard from people active in Republican circles that he was a bit of a nutter though, and had been warned numerous times to leave Belfast - to the extent that no-one was surprised in the slightest to find him shot dead.

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Doubt he would be particularly linked with any 'faction'. He was a bit of a head case by all accounts, but also had the balls to take on the Brits in armed conflict. Along with another volunteer he did time for shooting up the barracks in Andytown, not long after the Provo ceasefire.

Heard from people active in Republican circles that he was a bit of a nutter though, and had been warned numerous times to leave Belfast - to the extent that no-one was surprised in the slightest to find him shot dead.


Murdered former CIRA boss Tommy Crossan had been planning to move to Limerick

Murdered former Continuity IRA boss Tommy Crossan had been planning to move to Limerick after a series of death threats.

Crossan, who is related to jailed assassin Rose Lynch, was shot dead in a bloody execution on Good Friday.

But we can reveal the ex-republican prisoner – who was booted out of the CIRA – had been planning to hotfoot it across the Border because of the threats against him.

We can also reveal the dad of six was a former pal of “Fat” Deccy Smith, the RIRA thug blasted in the face outside his son’s creche in North Dublin last month.

Fat Deccy took over as leader of the CIRA in his native Belfast after Crossan was arrested for extorting €50,000 from a
businessman in 2008.

But Crossan was back at the helm after he managed to escape jail and Fat Deccy, a former associate of murdered RIRA boss Alan Ryan, was later forced to flee to the Republic after being linked to the gruesome murders of Joe Jones and Ed Burns in March 2007.

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

Burns, 36, was savagely beaten before being shot and his body was dumped close to Milltown Cemetery in West Belfast while Jones, 38, was shot in the head and decapitated with a shovel.

Deccy was also accused of nicking €40,000 from his former CIRA comrades and warned never to come back to Belfast. As we revealed last month, the 31-year-old was so terrified that he was going to be murdered that he had planned to move to New York before he was blasted by a lone gunman outside the Little
Rainbows Creche on Holywell Avenue in Donaghmede.

And his one-time pal and terror associate Crossan – who was jailed for 10 years in 1999 after he was caught with guns – was also planning to quit Belfast and move south to dodge the sniper’s bullet.

But while he had made plans to join dissident pals in Limerick, he never made it and was executed at his work in West Belfast on Friday.

A source revealed: “Tommy knew he had enemies. He was kicked out of the CIRA and he was accused of being a tout so there was no love lost.

“The guys in the Republic carried out an investigation into his criminality and everyone was interviewed and after four months they had a list as long as your arm of what he’d been up to.

“There was talk he was moving to Limerick because he had links there but obviously it never happened.”

Crossan, nicknamed “Teflon Tommy” for his ability to evade the police and death threats against him, was expelled from CIRA after he was accused of extorting hundreds of thousands of pounds in the organisation’s name and pocketing the money himself.

He was also blamed for setting up members for arrest, getting guns seized by cops in the North and of winding down the group’s terror campaign – against orders from leaders in the Republic.

Crossan was a distant relative of Rose Lynch, the blonde CIRA assassin who was jailed for life for the killing of innocent breadman David Darcy in Dublin in November 2011.

The mum of three, 50, admitted murdering 39-year-old Mr Darcy as he sat in his van in Cherry Orchard Avenue in Ballyfermot.

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Alan Ryan's gang fearing for lives in jail.

Terrified members of slain RIRA boss Alan Ryan’s gang have been placed in protection in prison claiming they fear for their life.

Associates of the dead thug pleaded with jail bosses at high security Portlaoise Prison to put them into isolation away from other inmates as they were warned they were marked men.

It’s understood that rival gangs, which Ryan’s mob once extorted for protection money, are now out for the their blood after RIRA leaders in Belfast said they were no longer going to protect them.

A source told the Irish Sunday Mirror that these once ruthless gangsters are now running scared.

The once cocky criminals are petrified following the murder of Ryan’s former right hand man Deccy Smith.

Photopress BelfastAlan Ryan
The source said: “They used to think that they were invincible when they had the backing and protection from the RIRA guys in the North.

“However, they have washed there hands of them now and have told them they are on their own.

“They are no longer as cocky as they used to be and now fear that they are walking targets in prison.

“There are currently six or so members seeking protection in the prison.

“Three leading gang bosses including Christy ‘Dapper Don’ Kinihan are believed to have joined forces in order to get rid of them once and for all.

“They have decided that enough is enough and to eradicate the gang and any remaining members.”

Injured Declan Smith lies bleeding on the ground after being shot in Dublin this morning
The source continued: “Since the members of Ryan’s gang in Portlaoise got word of this they have asked to be placed in protection.

“They know that if these gang bosses want them killed they will stop at nothing in order to do it.”

The request for protection by the inmates comes just weeks after the gangland assassination of Declan “Fat Deccy” Smith.

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

Thug Smith, 31, was blasted in the face last month after he had dropped his toddler son off at the Little Rainbow’s Creche at Holywell Avenue in Donaghmede, North Dublin.

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

The masked gunman then fled on foot.

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

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

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Criminal places €30,000 bounty on hitman.

A NOTORIOUS gangster has drawn up a gruesome gangland will — with €30,000 for the mobster who avenges his death, it has emerged.

The Star has established that the Dublin criminal is under death threat over his role in the murder of a terror boss 18 months ago.

And he has now ordered a close associate of his victim should be gunned down — if he is killed himself.

The thug, regarded as one of the most dangerous criminals in the country, is joint head of the drugs gang that killed Real IRA chief Alan Ryan in Dublin in 2012 — and he knows he will one day pay the price for that murder.

But sources have revealed he has now put down a bounty of up to €30,000 — to be paid by his associates to the man who kills a named associate of Ryan if and when he is murdered.

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“He knows he is in serious trouble and wants to take someone with him if he gets killed,” a source told The Star last night.

“He has put down the €30,000 and has stipulated that if he is killed then a named associate of Ryan is to be murdered.

“He has let it be known that there is a price on the associate’s head if he is killed and the belief is that it is some sort of desperate insurance policy on his own life.

“He thinks that the Ryan gang will be prevented from going after him, knowing one of their people will be done in return.

“But he is wrong about that. Ryan’s associates have been after him since the murder and will stop at nothing to get him.

“They will take their chances on one of their own being killed if he is taken out.”

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SHOT DEAD: Fat Deccy Smith was one of Ryan’s lieutenant who was himself murdered moments after dropping his child off at a creche last month in Dublin
The bizarre bounty was put down in the last month, sources say, and comes as elements in the Real IRA in Dublin — once controlled by Ryan (32) — continue to stalk the Mr Big.

They have vowed vengeance ever since the republican was shot dead near his home in Donaghmede in north Dublin on September 3, 2012.

Ryan was targeted as part of a feud with criminals in the city over an extortion racket he was running.

The convicted terrorist extorted more than €300,000 from terrified criminals all over the capital — and then turned his attention to drug-dealing Mr Big and his associate, a notorious armed robber from north Dublin.

They refused to hand over cash and, when he threatened to have them murdered, sent a hit team to take him out.

The Real IRA later turned on Ryan’s closest associates and kicked them out of the organisation because of their alleged criminality.

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But Ryan’s mob of thugs is still heavily involved in gangland crime and has access to a frightening array of weaponry, including assault rifles.

Mr Big’s associate was so concerned at the prospect of being killed in revenge that he fled Ireland shortly after the Ryan murder — but the main man was unable to leave.


SLAIN: The criminal gang are also thought to have been responsible for the 2010 murder of Daniel Gaynor who was a hitman for Ryan
He is now holed up in his home with bullet-proof glass and CCTV cameras because he knows his life is in imminent danger.

On the rare occasions when he does leave his house he constantly varies his route in case he is being followed by the terrorists.

Sources say gardai believe it is only a matter of time before his guard slips and Ryan’s former pals pounce on him.

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“They will get him, there is no doubt about that,” a source said.

“They idolised Ryan and if they have to wait five years before they get him, they will.”

News of the €30,000 beyond-the-grave bounty comes amid increased tensions between criminals and republicans.

Just last month, Real IRA member ‘Fat’ Deccy Smith — who was a key lieutenant of Ryan — was himself gunned down in north Dublin.

He was blasted in the head at close range with a sawn-off shotgun moments after dropping off his child at a creche in Donaghmede on March 21.

The 32-year-old died from his injuries a week later — and criminals were blamed for that hit.

They were also blamed for the August 2010 murder of Daniel Gaynor (28) in Finglas, north Dublin. He was a hitman for Ryan.

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Gang boss ordered hit on Tommy Crossan in row over money.

Former Continuity IRA boss Tommy Crossan was executed on the orders of the same blood hungry criminal responsible for the murder of Kieran McManus.



Dissident contacts have informed the Sunday World that Crossan was assassinated by the same killer gang controlled by a west Belfast man he once viewed as a personal friend but who vowed on April 6 last year to kill him.

Using the same MO used in the killing of pizza delivery driver McManus one year ago Crossan was approached by a gang of three armed men at his place of work, just as he was finishing his shift and gunned down.

He was sitting in a Portakabin at the fuel business he helped run at the Peter Pan complex on Belfast’s Springfield Road when he was approached shortly before 5pm on Friday evening.

The Sunday World understands the gangland-style assasination was carried out on the orders of a crime boss once a close associate of Crossan’s.

The 43-year-old father of six and grandfather to five died at the scene.

Police in an appeal for information yesterday described the kiling as “brutal and savage.” Detective Superintendant Jonathan Roberts said Crossan had been known to detectives but that no-one deserved to die in such a barbaric manner.

He refused to be drawn on a motive but said they were following several lines of inquiry and looking at relationship with former CIRA comrades.

“There is a family suffering today and we would appeal for anyone who has information to get in touch.”

The Sunday World can reveal that the one-time top dog dissident was gunned almost a year to the day since his former crime boss pal vowed to take him out.

The killing was a carbon copy of the circumstances surrounding the death of 26-year-old McManus who had just finished his nights work at Domino’s pizza place in Kennedy Way before being ambushed by a three man hit team.

In both murders the getaway cars were dumped just streets from the murder scene.

Crossan was kicked out of the CIRA after being accused of theft and of lining his own pockets under the guise of being a republican. He was also named as a police informers.

Crossan then forged strong links with the CIRA in Limerick after leaving Belfast temporarily, however it was reported last year on a website that he had been expelled from that organisation too.

Most recently he aligned himself with new grouping the Irish Republican Volunteers yet Oglaigh na hEireann ordered quickly ordered the IRV’s to stand down.

However it has been said Crossan accepted this order and there was no bad blood between him and ONH ruling them out being potentially involved in his gruesome demise.

This is due mainly to the fact Crossan remained close pals with ONH boss Carl Reilly who he served time in Maghaberry prison with for their role in a gun attack on Woodburn Barracks in West Belfast in 1999.

“The murders are almost identical, so is the timing,” said one dissident source. “It’s believed that it is the same gang who killed McManus, that is the most likely scenario at the minute.”

The man believed to be responsible has had links to both the CIRA and the INLA. He also had personal grudges against both Crossan and McManus.

“This guy is a hard nut, he is ruthless and he has proven once again he will take out anyone who gets in his way or displeases him in anyway.

“Crossan and him have had bad blood for years and it was only a matter of time before he caught up with him and McManus, He (Crossan) had done things that he wasn’t happy with, simple as that,” said one dissident source.

In the aftermath of the murder of father of one McManus last March, a statement was issued by a group purporting to be the CIRA claiming the murder.

It was immediately dismissed by senior dissident sources who claimed the statement was released under the CIRA’s name to throw suspicion away from the real killers who murdered for personal revenge.

An old code word from many years ago was used however his was explained by the fact the ruthless gang boss was a member of the terror group when the codeword was in circulation.

“Nobody believed the CIRA as a group killed Kieran McManus, he was killed by people who were once affiliated with the group just like Tommy Crossan was on Friday afternoon.

“It looks like it’s the same men, the same gang made up of former INLA and CIRA members who have chosen to dedicate their lives to criminality. It’s only a matter of time before the CIRA claim Crossan’s murder as well but the dogs on the street know who killed him.

“He was killed by his own and it was only a matter of time before that happened,” the source said.

Crossan fell out with the man believed to have masterminded his demise in 2011 after a row over money. As time progressed the pair came to hate each other with his former friend vowing to kill him on April 6 last year.

Almost exactly 12 months later Tommy Crossan lay in a pool of his own blood after being shot several times, twice in the head at close range.

The godfather has, in the past, also made death threats to Crossan’s criminal pal Christopher ‘Cricky’ Notarantonio and ‘Fat’ Deccy Smith who was gunned down in Dublin last month.

Only one of his three named targets has been left standing.

McManus was known for his involvement in a brutal street brawl in Turf lodge which resulted in him being expelled from the area and moving to Crumlin.

Along with his elder brother Joseph he was accused of the attempted murder of Michael Smith who almost lost an arm in the two hour long fight in April 2010.

He was handed an 18 months suspended sentence in relation to the offence.

Fat Deccy Smith was named as a target after being named for his role in the murder of CIRA members Joe Jones and Ed Burns and for stealing cash from the CIRA.

Like Crossan, who was also accused of theft and of lining his own pockets under the guise of being a republican, he was also named as a police informer.

Last night Crossan’s six children were preparing for the hardest role of their lives, mourners for their own father.

DS Roberts said detectives are particularly keen to trace the movements of a red BMW car registration OEZ 9177 which was found burnt out a few streets from the scene at Beechmount Grove.

Police had arrested a 26-year-old man over the murder of former dissident republican leader Tommy Crossan.

The man was arrested in west Belfast and was being questioned at an Antrim police station.

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Easter Statement from the Leadership of the Republican Movement.

ON the occasion of the 98th anniversary of the 1916 Rising the Leadership of the Republican Movement sends greetings to all assembled at the graves and monuments of our patriot dead and to all Republican prisoners incarcerated as a result of their faith in and loyalty to the All-Ireland Republic. We also take this opportunity to send greetings to the revolutionary women of Cumann na mBan in this their centenary year.

During the last year the Movement has lost two of our most notable leaders in the persons of Ruairí Ó Brádaigh and Joe Ó Neill. Both of these individuals were major and recognisable figures identified with the Republican Movement since the 1950s. Notably they were two of the main leaders who remained steadfast and loyal to their Republican principles during the 69/70 split which saw the emergence of the movement which became known as the “Provisionals.” Throughout the struggle which ensued during the 70s and 80s up to 1986 they were active and key players until treachery struck again. This time a more serious betrayal was afoot as it became clear Republicans contemplated entering the partitionist parliaments.

At this juncture at the Ard-Fheis of 1986 on this issue of principle Ruairí and Joe led the walk-out which resulted in the reorganisation of Irish Republicans. Both of these men gave unwavering and solid leadership and service until their deaths. On behalf of the Republican Movement we extend our sympathies to their families. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a nanamacha dhílis.

As we look forward positively and laying the plans to celebrate the centenary of the 1916 Rising we must make space here to address a misconception among some ill-informed people across the country in relation to criminal activity perpetrated in the name of the Republican Movement.

During 2010 a number of former members of the Movement without any reasonable or recognisable fundamental principle, initiated by rogue endeavour, and without any recourse to long-standing protocols or constitution and supported by the miscreant and elemental kings of Ireland’s criminal fraternity hatched their plan to lay claim to the honourable name of the Republican Movement.

Having done this unexplainable and treacherous deed the prime movers then within an ashamedly short length of time put distance between themselves and their pseudo-Republican creation. We have questioned within the Republican Movement if these people moved away from their criminal creation because of shame. Or was it what could be expected from active agents who were trying to generate and engage the Republican Movement in a feud with the criminal underworld across the country. A feud which would sully the name of the Republican Movement and consign the cause of Ireland into decline for many years to come. Given the immediate attendance of the British and Free State media at the time these events unfolded it is certain that a malign hand was at work.

It is increasingly obvious that there is no longer a free press in this country. British and Free State intelligence are actively operating with embedded journalists and broadcasters within the major news outlets. There is little doubt that this media manipulation by senior intelligence operatives within the Gardaí share responsibility for many of the gangland killings which are taking place across the country. These so-called officers of the law would wish to have Irish Republicans to the fore in these foul doings.

The treachery of 2010 was a carefully-planned attempt to arrest and destroy the Republican Movement as it exists today in the continuing defence of the Irish Republic proclaimed at the GPO Dublin in 1916. These people have failed and the criminal conspirators they have left in their wake shall dissipate.

There will be other attempts to raise issues of contention ranging across diverse matters, for example principles, structures, authority, democracy, discipline and many others into the future. That said nobody is going to put the Republican Movement in their pocket and walk away to self-serve, for in doing so they will be turning away from the principles which sustain this Movement and which are the ultimate guarantee of our success.

THE Republican Movement will continue to be the bedrock and guardians of the Republic proclaimed at Dublin’s GPO and democratically underpinned in the election of 1918. The Irish Republic was not afforded any support at that time by the robust democracies of the world and so in the face of the British Empire democracy floundered.

We note the emergence of Irish Republican remembrance societies in many areas of the country. While these are useful to remind people of our patriot dead they also assist in the segmenting of the Republican heartlands especially in the Six Occupied Counties. There is a place for all Republicans loyal to the Republic proclaimed in 1916 in this Movement.

The path to the Republic is not an easy one and it has been made more difficult since the Cause was betrayed by those who now take their seats in the partitionist parliaments. We call on all those who now recognise this betrayal to join with us in our continuing struggle for the freedom of our country. Freedom from the parliaments imposed by England which entrench and are dependent upon sectarian hatred to survive.

The Republican project is alive and well and we will win.

An Phoblacht Abú!

Long live the Irish Republic.

— Issued by the Leadership of the Republican Movement, Easter 2014

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The above post is not from the Limerick faction who use the same name this is from the main group.

You can see they talk about the Limerick faction in the statement i put up the statements so people can see what is going on with the two groups.

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Hurler who disappeared after €2.5m drugs bust is 'alive and well.

A FORMER Dublin minor hurler who disappeared after a massive €2.5million drugs bust is “alive and well”, a source has revealed.

There were major fears for the saftey of Patrick Casey (26) after he went missing after the huge haul of cannabis was seized in Coolock on the city’s northside in March.

The drugs were believed to have been owned by the gang controlled by the new ‘Mr Big’ of organised crime.

The mob boss, who is in his 30s, is suspected of ordering the execution of slain RIRA chief Alan Ryan.

Gardai are still looking to speak to Casey to see if he has any information about the drug seizure.

It is believed he was spotted in a car leaving the scene of the drugs bust in Raheny, but was not picked up by cops.

Following the raid, Casey is believed to have gone missing and there were serious fears for he had been lured to his death.

However, a senior source has revealed that there are hopes now that he might be safe.

“It was believed that he might be in serious danger, but there is a belief now that he is alive and well.”

Casey, from Casino Park in Marino, was one of the most talented underage hurlers in Dublin before he became involved in the drugs trade.

He played for Dublin’s underage teams with some of the county’s biggest stars – including Johnny McCaffrey and Joey Boland – as well as playing soccer for Shelbourne.

However, his sporting career came to an abrupt end when he was nabbed with €44,000 worth of cannabis resin.

In 2007 he was sentenced to eight years in prison after pleading guilty to possession of drugs for sale or supply. The sentence was halved on appeal.

Garda Daniel Prenty told the court that a holdall bag containing the cannabis was found in undergrowth next to a railway on August 31, 2006.

When Casey’s social security card was found in a pocket in the bag, a warrant was obtained to search a house he was associated with.

Casey took full responsibility straight away and told gardai that he believed the drugs were worth €10,000.

He claimed they were for his own personal use and said he had no intention of selling them, nor was he holding them for someone else.

The court heard that the gardai were satisfied that Casey, who had just lost his job and was under financial pressure at the time due to payments on a bank loan, was holding the drugs for somebody else and had been promised €1,000.

Judge Katherine Delahunt suspended the last two years of the eight-year sentence after taking into consideration that Casey had accepted responsibility for the drugs and fully co-operated with the Garda investigation.

“You were a talented athlete and may have gone on to bigger and better things, but unfortunately your involvement in this crime has brought an end to that,” she told Casey.

In 2008, the three-judge Court of Criminal Appeal ruled that sentence to be unduly severe and reduced it from a total of six years to three.

Counsel for Casey had argued that the judge had erred by not taking into account circumstances, including that his client was a young man with no previous convictions who had acted naively. He had also fully co-operated with the gardai.

On March 7, more than 98kg of the drug was discovered by officers when they carried out planned searches at a number of houses on Tonlegee Road, in Coolock.

Then, in a follow up search of a car, a further 21kg was seized.

Brendan Mangan, a 42-year-old security officer, has been charged in connection with the seizure.

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Shots fired over the coffin of murdered former IRA leader Tommy Crossan on the eve of his funeral.

Shots were fired over the coffin of murdered former CIRA leader Tommy Crossan on the eve of his funeral.

The funeral cortege of Crossan was then flanked by masked men as he was buried in Milltown cemetery in Belfast on Thursday.

The coffin of the father-of-six, who was gunned down on Good Friday in West Belfast, was carried by family members and draped in the Irish tricolour.

His killers struck as the former dissident republican was sitting at a desk in a portakabin at a family fuel business off the Springfield Road.

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Top gangster is 'dead man' as five mobs order his hit.

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

ONE of Ireland's most volatile gangsters is under pressure after a major contract was placed on his head by up to five different crime mobs.

Sources said he is a walking target because of his alleged involvement in two murders and a number of botched assassination attempts.

The Clondalkin hood remains in hiding this weekend after gangland criminals linked him to an attempted murder that led to Ballymun criminal Michael 'Mad Mickey' Devoy being shot dead in a revenge attack in January.

HEROIN

The botched hit that gardai believe the Clondalkin criminal was involved in with Devoy (41) was the attempt on the life of convicted heroin dealer Greg Lynch outside a north Dublin pub last October.

Lynch (28) is a key member of a drugs gang that also includes Paul Rice and Gerard 'Hatchet' Kavanagh – a mob with close links to the international crime syndicate that is controlled by godfather Christy Kinahan who is based on the Costa del Sol.

A senior source told the Herald: "The information is that the Clondalkin criminal was with Devoy on the night of that shooting in which innocent women were also hit.

"All of Dublin's underworld knows that he has been putting himself up as a gun for hire and he has murdered at least two people.

"However, by now being put in the frame for the Lynch shooting, he is in very serious bother.

"But there are a number of other criminal gangs out there that are out to kill him, including in his own patch of Clondalkin.

"So he is in hiding big time, especially after being blamed for messing up a shooting on one of 'Fat' Freddie Thompson's former mates."

FRIEND

The Clondalkin hood is also the chief suspect for the murder of Jason Carroll (39), who was shot six times with a handgun outside his home in Cherrywood Drive, Clondalkin, last August.

Carroll, who was linked to a number of serious criminals, was a close friend of Daniel Kinahan, the son of Christy Kinahan.

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Masked men flank coffin of murdered former IRA boss Tommy Crossan as he's buried with paramilitary honours.

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Phone signal means grim prospect for missing men
Gardai say abandoned car was left in place to divert focus of search.

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Dominic Óg McGlinchey has serious misgivings and questions to ask about the strategic, pragmatic and even moral purpose of the continuing dissident republican campaign of violence. He wouldn’t be in the “business of condemning the armed struggle” but says it’s “make your mind up time” for dissident groups.
“I don’t see mass appetite at a street level for the armed campaign,” he adds. “If there was we would be having mass amounts of attacks.” He believes the various paramilitary groups must decide as to whether they take the paramilitary or political path. You can’t do both, he is certain. “It’s evolve or die, because that is where we are at.”
A case in point, he feels, is Friday’s dissident feud murder in Belfast of former Continuity IRA commander Tommy Crossan. “It’s terrible that anybody would be shot on a Good Friday evening, but when organisations lose direction and discipline that’s where you end up.”

McGlinchey recalls a conversation he had recently with a fellow republican. “I asked, is it possible for you to think for one second that you can build a republican movement without the use of the gun being at its core? And this person said of course it is.
“So then I said, well let’s engage in that process. Let’s start to have a conversation about the removal of the gun from Irish politics. Is that not what everybody wants? So how do you go about bringing together the people on the island, North and South, to establish a 32-county socialist republic? I firmly believe you have to take off the mask and go out there among the people and start that job.”
McGlinchey was an admirer and supporter of Martin McGuinness but when he and Gerry Adams persuaded republicans to endorse policing in 2007 he quit Sinn Féin. “It was too much to stomach.”
The son of Dominic and Mary McGlinchey, he was 16 and with his father when he was gunned down in Drogheda in 1994; aged 9 when his mother was shot in Dundalk in 1987 just after she had bathed him and his brother Declan. He and his brother after the killings of his mother and father were raised respectively in grandparental homes in Toomebridge, Co Antrim, and Bellaghy, Co Derry.

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Dominic and Mary McGlinchey were leaders in the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA), both ruthless and even labelled as psychopathic, with his father being called “ Mad Dog” McGlinchey, but he rejects that depiction. What he strongly suspects is that six months before the 1994 IRA ceasefire Dominic McGlinchey was killed to “facilitate the peace process”. Those responsible, he contends, were one of three groups: the IRA, British military intelligence or people acting for the Irish government.
He’ll talk about his parents but first, and with a degree of circumspection, he wants to speak about dissident republican paramilitaries and how he feels they must engage in a debate about whether now is the time to call a halt to the violence.
We meet in Tuam, Co Galway, where 37-year-old McGlinchey is now living with his wife and three children. We speak for several hours over two days and he is cautious in his comments, elliptical by times, because he says you “need to be careful because it is very dangerous out there”.
The danger he refers to can come from inside the dissident republican movement from people who won’t like what he is saying and, he believes, possibly from some outside dark forces as well – what Gerry Adams would describe as “securocrats”. But as he gradually opens up it becomes clear that behind all the qualifications he feels that the dissidents right now are going nowhere. He’s hard-headed but concedes that if dissidents – who no matter how weak are always capable of killing people – are not advancing their united Ireland cause by a single inch, then questions of morality as well as politics and paramilitarism come into play.
He feels compelled to get a debate going within the dissident organisations such as the “New IRA”, Óglaigh na hÉireann, Continuity IRA and the various sub-groups and factions.
“I would never get into telling people what they should or shouldn’t do but what I would say is that republicans need to have respect and compassion for other republicans,” he says. “Republicanism is a very honourable thing if done in an honourable way. We shouldn’t be dishonouring it by the mindless use of violence. There needs to be strategy behind it and an end result in mind.
“You need to explain to your people what that strategy is. Do you believe that you are going to drive the Brits into the sea? There is no sign of that happening. To resist has to be more than saying, ‘I can endure the most, I have enough in the tank, that I have this Irishness thing that you won’t beat me, that you can never beat the Irish’. There has to be more to it than that.


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