Woman arrested in connection with Alan Ryan murder.
A gangster’s moll has been arrested in connection with the 2012 murder of IRA boss Alan Ryan.
The woman, from the Kilbarrack area of Dublin is aged in her early 30s.
She was last night being held in Coolock garda station.
She is understood to be the first female arrested in connection with the killing and she is being held on suspicion of withholding information.
The scene of Alan Ryan's murder
The Herald reports that the woman is the girlfriend of a major figure in the ‘Mr Big’ drugs gang and was arrested in the capital yesterday on suspicion of shoplifting.
Although she is not believed to have had an active role in the shooting of Ryan, she is thought to be holding key information about the murder and the gang that carried it out.
Alan Ryan (32) was shot dead in Clongriffin, north Dublin, in 2012.
