Tensions rising as Ryan killers want cash from rivals.
BY KEN FOY – 09 JUNE 2014 12:00 AM
The Dublin crime gang that ordered the murder of Real IRA terror chief Alan Ryan is using the same extortion tactics that Ryan’s mob used on them before they shot him dead in 2012, it has emerged.
Senior sources have revealed that the dangerous mob are now demanding large cash sums from other dealers and threatening to shoot them if the money is not handed over.
The gangsters have also been involved in stealing drugs from other drug dealers, which is leading to a huge upsurge in gangland tensions in the 
capital.
refused
Sources have revealed that the cash drive has led to at least three different shooting incidents in north Dublin and Co Meath, including one in which a man was lucky to escape with his life.
In the other two incidents, homes connected to dealers who refused to pay up were sprayed with bullets.
A senior source told The
“Cash demands are flying around and when fellas fail to pay up, they are being targeted. Sums of up to €20,000 are being demanded and it is making everything very tense.
“What is a bit unusual about all of this is that some of the dealers who are being targeted were traditionally aligned to the crew who murdered Ryan.”
The
Fathead’ has been supplying this dealer with large amounts of prescription drugs and the criminal, who is in his late 
20s, has been making huge profits.
But now the heat is on him because the gang is demanding money off him.
And sources say that his mate Fathead’ is powerless to act because he is in such fear of the mobsters.
The gang has been using the name of one of its most notorious members — on-the-run gang boss Paschal Kelly (48) — to send terror through the ranks of junior dealers.
This is despite the fact that Kelly and his former sidekick Mr Big’ are now apparently in a bitter cash dispute.
feuds
Last February, Kelly’s County Cavan home was seized by the Criminal Assets Bureau. He bought the bungalow in 2004 for €190,000 but it is now worth over €250,000.
Kelly, who is involved in a number of brutal feuds, has been described in court as having links to major gangsters.
Sources say that if the situation continues as it has been it will be only a matter of time before someone is “whacked”.
“It is all about the money with these fellas and they have turned on each other in a big way,” a senior source warned.
“This is a big problem and you could be looking at a bloodbath.”
