http://www.sundayworld.com/columnists/sw-irish-crime.php?aid=5669Sean South,
In an other post about Kelly i said about a mate who was also shot andKelly&co did not hit back.
DOGS OF WAR
We unmask Real IRA gang that is in conflict with drug kingpins
SUSPECT: Alan Ryan was questioned by gardai over the brutal murder of Sean Winters but was later released without charge
SUSPECT: Alan Ryan was questioned by gardai over the brutal murder of Sean Winters but was later released without charge
THIS is the terror chief gardai suspect is at war with the underworld.
Alan Ryan (30) was arrested and quizzed last week about the brutal murder of Sean Winters outside Portmarnock DART station last Sunday.
He was one of 10 people lifted by detectives investigating the gangland-style execution. He was later released without charge and a file is being prepared for the DPP.
It is believed Winters was shot by a Real IRA terror gang waging war with crime gangs in Dublin.
The group is also suspected of the attempted hits on gangland godfather Eamon Kelly (63) last Saturday and his associate Brian O'Reilly (41) in August.
The gang, which is viewed as criminal rather than political, is trading on the name of the Real IRA to demand money from drug dealers across Dublin.
Gardai are investigating claims that criminals have come together to take out the gang.
A group calling themselves the Criminal Action Force contacted a newspaper to claim responsibility for the murder of dissident-linked hitman Daniel Gaynor in Finglas over the summer, and a shooting at the Player's Lounge pub where three innocent men were hit in a case of mistaken identity.
Criminals
The group claimed the Real IRA has extorted €425,000 from criminals in the past year.
They also said they have drawn up a hitlist of 12 Real IRA members. It is understood criminals from Dublin's northside are among the
most eager to see the demise of the dissident group.
SAVAGERY: Sean Winters’ funeral
SAVAGERY: Sean Winters’ funeral
A number of Alan Ryan's associates were arrested in the Winters' probe.
A 31-year-old who is regularly spotted in the company of Ryan and his brother Anthony (34) was also lifted. The man is a director of a security firm and a motor business.
Anthony Ryan has a security licence from the Private Security Authority, despite being convicted in connection with terrorist offences. He was not among the 10 people arrested this week.
Others arrested in last week's swoop also have security licences with the PSA but do not have serious convictions.
The Ryan brothers were arrested when gardai swooped on a Real IRA training camp in Meath 11 years ago. The Ryans were jailed for three years each after the raid.
Meanwhile, another one of the men arrested during the week is a kickboxer in his fifties originally from Kilmore but living in Clare
Hall area in north Dublin.
His 24-year-old daughter was also arrested. Two of his sons, 21 and 28, were also lifted as part of the operation.
Two other men, aged 23 and 24 from Clare Hall and Raheny, and a woman (22) from Donore Avenue - who is dating one of the gang leaders - were also arrested. Other members of the gang who were not picked up include two brothers from Summerhill in Dublin's north inner city.
Those arrested were all released from custody on Tuesday night and a file is being prepared for the DPP. Winters, originally from
Donaghmede, was a drug dealer who was part of a major gang operating in an area of Dublin's northside, stretching from Baldoyle to Coolock.
Suspect
He was the prime suspect in the murder of Anthony Jenkinson (28), who was beaten to death in St Anne's Park, Raheny, in April 2001 in a dispute over drug money.
His cousin Noel Deans was shot dead in Coolock in January and he had spoken about getting revenge for that killing.
MISSING: Crook David Lindsay
MISSING: Crook David Lindsay
The Real IRA gang were among the suspects in that killing. It is also understood that Winters developed a bad drug habit in recent times and tried to take his own life on two occasions.
He was an associate of former gang leader David 'Babyface' Lindsay (38) and Alan Napper (39) who are missing presumed dead.
Lindsay had become involved in a dispute with the gang boss known as The Panda. He planned to have his rival murdered but was doublecrossed by the hitman. Traces of blood belonging to Lindsay and Napper were discovered in a house in Co Down but their bodies have yet to be found.
Criminals already tried to take out members of the renegade Real IRA gang at the Player's Lounge Pub in Fairview over the summer, but three innocent people were shot instead.
One of the gang who had been in the pub at the time had been outside for a cigarette but returned inside just before a gunman opened fire on innocent doorman Wayne Barrett in a case of mistaken identity.
Part of a bullet is lodged in his brain and he is unlikely to ever recover from his injuries. Two customers were also injured in the
indiscriminate attack.
That shooting, which was claimed by the shadowy CAF last week, was believed to be linked to the death of an armed robber in Dublin last year.
Gareth Molloy was shot dead by gardai during an attempted raid. He only took part in the raid to raise money to pay compensation
to a man connected to dissidents.
Molloy bit part of the ear off an associate of the Ryan brothers during a fight in the Player's Lounge around St Patrick's Day last year.
But the bite victim informed Molloy that he had to pay €6,000 in compensation or he would be killed for the attack. It was this demand that led to him taking part in a robbery in Lucan in May last year where he was shot by gardai after firing first and ignoring
calls to put down his weapon. His associates vowed revenge.
The attack on Daniel Gaynor was revenge for the shooting of Collie Owens in Finglas in July. Gaynor was the hitman in the Owens
murder, which may have been ordered by the Real IRA.
As well as being suspected of attacks on Eamon Kelly and Brian O'Reilly, the gang is also understood to have targeted two notorious criminals from Finglas.
The gang called to their mother's home over the summer in a move which infuriated the pair who were not in the house at the time.
Other associates of The Panda are involved in a separate feud which claimed three lives last year. David 'Fred' Lynch (26), Tommy
Joyce (20) and John 'BJ' Clarke (21) were murdered in separate attacks linked to the feud.
Clarke's brother Jamie (22) was targeted in an assassination attempt in Coolock in the early hours of Friday morning.
The father-of-one was lucky to escape with his life after a gunman fired a number of shots at him outside a pal's house on Adare Road around 1.30am, hitting him in the leg.
Incident
He was talking to John Paul Brennan outside the house where a party was being held when the gunman approached and fired at
least eight shots, one hitting Clarke in the leg.
A 24-year-old man was arrested in connection with the shooting in the area shortly after the incident. He is being held at Ballymun
Garda Station. Clarke has not made a complaint about the attack.
Brennan, who was not injured in the attack, was himself targeted in a gun attack in Kinsealy in January 2009.
There is no evidence to suggest the attack on Clarke is linked to Winters' murder.
