Gardai are believed to have foiled another hit attempt on the Dublin gang boss known as Mr Big.
The drug baron, who is believed to have been ordered the hit on IRA boss Alan Ryan, is aware there are a number of threats against his life from criminal and republican figures.
Gardai received intelligence that he was going to be shot last week and were on patrol in the Cromcastle area of north Dublin, where his would-be killers were said to be waiting.
A man who matched the description of a dangerous criminal who has previously been involved in armed robberies was waiting in a car in the area, but fled when he saw gardai.
The man, who is aged in his mid 20s and is from the north Dublin area, is considered extremely dangerous and has numerous convictions.
“It could be that the intelligence was correct and Mr Big was going to be targeted or the fella who ran could have been up to something else, but there is a reason he fled from the scene,” said one source.
It the latest suspected assassination plot against Mr Big, who we cannot name because he is currently out on bail for a serious offence.
He had to change the garda station he was signing on at a number of times due to fears he would be whacked.
He is staying in a home on the northside of the city which has had bullet-proof windows installed.
Associates of Alan Ryan blame him for his killing and will still be looking to take him out.
However, Ryan’s inner-circle have been left weakened since his death.
Mr Big pulled a gun on one Ryan associate, Daragh Evans, in Dolphin’s Barn earlier this year. Evans left the country in fear of his life in the aftermath of that attack. It is unclear if he has returned since.
Mr Big had also been at war with Greg Lynch, who runs a rival drug dealing operation in Dublin.
Mr Big was arrested in a car in the Marrowbone Lane area in December 2012 after gardai became suspicious. Lynch lives close by and when detectives searched the car, which was being driven by an associate of Mr Big, they discovered cable ties and balaclavas. At the time sources said they believed the men were on their way to target Lynch.
Mr Big recently had a major falling out with his associate Pascal Kelly (48), after he demanded Kelly pay back €60,000.
Kelly fled to Europe after being released on bail in Northern Ireland.
Gardai are believed to have foiled another hit attempt on the Dublin gang boss known as Mr Big ?
That must be around five times Garda are said to have foiled another hit on Mr Big what a joke, it looks like people are making it look like people are trying to to kill Mr Big all the time and that Mr Big is not doing any thing about it.
It is called giving people encouragement to doing something to Mr Big and he will not do anything about it because five other people try to hit him and nothing happen to them when in fact nobody was trying to hit Mr Big at all,
