Yeah I heard about the Seamus O'Neill thing a while back. Some posts I've seen wanna attribute into some sort of Irish-American OC thing, which I mentioned in my first post.
I didn't, however, know the details about John McLaughlin. That he had a stake McWhitey's in the Northeast or that he considered himself a gangster and was mildly feared amongst the locals as the article suggest. .
Wasn't some of these guys the last of the Alamo for the white street kids in North Philly? Kensington is where these crackpots pitched their battles with the Spanish and the Ricans and the blacks. This was back in the early 90's and McLaughin was part of the crew involved in this battle which is why when he later owned the bar he called the bar 'McWhitey's' cos it weren't exactly a tribute to Whitey Bulger if you catch my drift. He wanted the white power to prevail in the neighborhood and there were some pretty fierce disputes. In 89 he was stabbed in the chest in a battle between whites and the hispanics. http://articles.philly.com/1989-10-17/news/26118083_1_youths-ontario-streets-john-mclaughlin
Kensington is quite a tough neighborhood today from what I hear so it must have been a real junkyard back then. Hear they have cops on every corner now to stamp on those looking to cop shit in the neighborhood.
Closest you'll probably get to an Irish mob boss in the North East these days is one of the leaders of those white pride type gangs. Not sure if Dead Man Inc has any followers in Philly but in Maryland and Brooklyn it has members and down in Texas James Sweeeney has just pled out to avoid the chair or some shit over some murder rap in Texas. Always an Irish guy wrapped up in this bullshit these days though not sure if these are white pride as they were sposed to have a thing with the Black Guerilla family though down in Texas that BFG shit ain't gonna fly with those Aryan dudes. http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2013-01...l-gang-dead-man
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