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THE DAUGHTER of Ireland’s former godfather of crime, Treacy Gilligan, tried to Ireland’s first family of crime desperate to get back flog an undercover Sunday World team her Spanish pub for ‘black money’ after we in the game as they try to flog pub to ‘Russian mafia’ set her up with two prospec- tive Russian mafia buyers. By NICOLA TALLANT in Alicante, Spain The family are also fighting orders is the rightful owner of the entire While she insisted that The against Jessbrook House in Enfield, Jessbrook complex. Judges Chambers pub in Ali- the Gilligan family existed in 1996 ‘black money’ – cash under the table the bungalow home where Geraldine The family have racked up more cante is hers and has nothing and over €15m passed through them. – in exchange for the pub Gilligan lives and which is attached than €20million in legal fees in a to do with her father John, we Most of the money was withdrawn l Said she WANTED another to the large equestrian centre, the mammoth, two-decade battle to hang in July 1996 – a month after the €300k for a big villa she is trying to former family home at Corduff Av- on to their properties, with the tab understand he is hoping for a enue in Blanchardstown, , brutal assassination of journalist flog nearby. She also told us that she for their lawyers being picked up by cut of the sale so he can get owns another house near Torrevieja and two houses in Lucan, owned by the hard-working taxpayer. by the Gilligan mob. Treacy and her brother Darren. back in the drugs business. All four Gilligans – John and Ger- on the Costa Blanca. “I’m still fighting for that arena Just two years ago Treacy filed aldine, daughter Treacy and son The Gilligans are desperate to sell Ludicrous over there,” Geraldine told the an affidavit in the Supreme Court Darren – have been granted free the pub for dirty money before the Sunday World last January. claiming she makes just €200 a week legal aid, with the taxpayer footing banks swoop for a €250,000 loan The family have argued that Jess- “I’m fighting for everything. It was from the watering hole, their court challenges against the owed on it. Sources say that John is brook House and Willsbrook View, taken off me illegally. They didn’t She said she and her daughter . finally hoping to lay his hands on the a large three-bed bought for Treacy, go through the court rules and I am would be homeless if the State didn’t cash so he can get back in the game. are family homes. sure that the Supreme Court will give her back her home in Lucan, Boasted The family are due up in the Supreme Among the ludicrous claims they give me justice. which had been seized by the CAB. Court tomorrow where they will contin- have put before the courts are that “I’m still in this house and I am going She is not the only Gilligan to have But when she met our undercover ue to fight an epic 17-year battle with none of the assets were bought by the to stay here until they drag me out in cried poverty under oath. Her moth- team, Treacy was far more bling than the CAB about the proceeds of crime. proceeds of crime, but were instead a box. I’m sure a lot of people would er Geraldine told a court in 2013 that she has previously claimed to be. Jessbrook Equestrian Centre was the result of John Gilligan’s Midas be delighted to hear that, but I’m here she survives on weekly Jobseeker’s l She BOASTED that she can pull sold for a snip at €500,000, but is now touch on the horses. every day, every day, every day. Allowance of €186. €3,000 a month renting the pub out, back on the market with a new name, Earlier this year, Geraldine told us “This has nothing to do with the Dundalk District Court heard up but says doesn’t need the hassle; Emerald International Equestrian she will “be taken out of her home in proceeds of crime – that’s not the to 16 bank accounts in the names of l OFFERED to take €300k in Centre. a box” and she still insists that she point. The point is that the public WORLD IS WATCHING July 26, 2015 11

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coffers have lost out big time on this meticulous in distancing himself thing – it’s the public that should from assets. However, officers be- have made millions.” lieve Judge bought land and the pub Gilligan and his gang imported under orders from ‘Factory’ John. a staggering €60million worth of He was a regular visitor to Gilli- HTC One M8s cannabis into Ireland in a two-year gan, while he was in Belmarsh jail period and he went on a lavish spend- awaiting extradition for the murder FREE ing spree, building up an impressive of Veronica Guerin. It was there, property portfolio. officers believe, that he gave Judge Samsung Galaxy S5 iPhone 5C 8GB Senior CAB officers first identified his access to foreign accounts holding 349 FREE Irish assets, but then turned to Spain, millions in drug money. where they believe he purchased Gilligan Snr has always denied a pub, five warehouses, two he has anything to do with the boats, six houses, two cars and family’s assets in Spain. a construction firm. He claimed: “My ex-wife and Investigations found that my daughter are running a all had been placed in the bar somewhere in Spain. I names of key associates. don’t know where exactly, Top of the CAB’s list was the as I have never been to the Judges Chambers, which country in my life, but I was initially bought by think it is 50 minutes out- Liam Judge – a bagman side Alicante. It is a nice for Gilligan from Allen- pub, run honestly.” wood in Co. Kildare. But like everything For just f40.66 a month He was a lover of in the life of Ireland’s Treacy and died of most hated crime fam- a heart attack in ily, officers believe the Visit your local 3Store or Three.ie 2004. The pub claims are simply part of transferred a tapestry of lies. to Gilligan’s Over the years sources daughter say that the Gilligan’s *Subject to 24 month term and direct debit on Classic Flex Max 350. 4G promotion despite no FIGHT: extravagant lifestyle has provides access to the 4G network only and does not include any additional data official will whittled away a lot of the allowance. 4G access free for subscribing customers until 30/06/16. Subject to being left. Geraldine nest egg he believed he compatible device, coverage & software update. All you can eat data available on Gilligan was Gilligan had invested in Spain. Flex Max plans. Three reserves the right to limit service where usage exceeds 15GB in a billing cycle and other users are adversely affected. See three.ie. YOU CAN PAY IN ‘BLACK MONEY’: SEE PAGES 12 & 13 12 July 26, 2015 GILLIGANTHE STING

By NICOLA TALLANT IT’S 6pm and under the searing Spanish sun we are finally ready to attempt a ‘sting’ on what was The price is once the first family of Irish crime. We are gathered in Alicante, in the ‘ heart of the Costa Blanca, and not far from the pub once identified by the Criminal Assets Bureau as the jewel in drug lord John Gilligan’s crown. The Judges Chambers is up for sale and our sources say that the Gilligans are so desperate for money they are hoping to do a cash deal with Russian or Eastern European criminals on the Costa. It’s known out here as ‘black money’ – suit- €450k...the cases of cash with no questions asked. In just two years, ‘Factory’ John’s gang imported €60million worth of cannabis into Ireland, but now, sources say, the family are on their knees. In a last throw of the dice they are trying to offload the remains of their empire for cash, as Gilligan desperately attempts to get back in the game and protect himself from the hitmen who have twice tried to kill him since his release from jail. We pick up a Spanish mobile phone and our mortgage is men, who are posing as interested Russian mafia buyers, dial a number which we are told will get us straight to the heart of the paranoid Gilligan clan. Gangsters A few rings later a man answers and we inquire about viewing the Judges Chambers Pub, but he says the line is bad and he will get someone to call us back. Within minutes, Treacy Gilligan is on the line and, without realising, is about to do €250k for business with the Sunday World. “We meet tomorrow? Tomorrow?”our man asks, but Treacy feels she can’t wait that long to meet a possible cash buyer. “Meet tonight?” she says, eagerly agree- ing to show our team around the terraced goldmine, which was once estimated to be worth €1million and which for years was a home away from home from Irish and U.K. gangsters. “Maybe two hours?I can be there. We will meet at the bar. It is my bar,” she says. and We agree to rendezvous at 8pm and shortly the deeds beforehand take up positions in order to watch our target. True to her word, Treacy arrives driving a battered old navy Volkswagen Golf, and proceeds to light up a cigarette as she pulls open the shutters and doors of the Judges Chambers Bar. The years have not been kind. Our men pull up in a black SUV and we have made sure they look the part – burly, tattooed and dripping in designer clothes. They chat together in Russian as they walk up the steps to The Chambers. balance is Treacy gives them a guided tour of the large the outdoor terrace, complete with electric BBQ cooking station and room for 80 tables. Inside she is forthcoming about selling up. “I was living here for 13 years, but now I live in Ireland,” she says. “I moved back because I have a daughter who is eight years of age, because the schools here are not so good. It’s a beautiful bar and it’s a busy, busy, busy bar.” She is enthusiastic about the money that can be made at the Chambers – €3,000 a month in rent and thousands more in takings. She constantly TREACY IN black money insists: “It’s my bar.” ’ Our Russian undercover agent in- “My boss ask me if you would take forms her that many people tell him any cash,” our man asks. that itit is aaccttuuaalllly Treacy’s ffaatthheerr who Treacy nods her head in approval. owns ththee bbaarr anandd ththaatt perhaps he isis “That’s not a problem – the black the one we n neeeedd to dodo business wiwitth.h. money?” “No, I aamm the boss,” sshhee ssaysays.. ““MMyy We say our buyer can show the father wwaass iinn prison ffoorr 1177 years. HHee money. is oouutt now. SoSo it’s mmyy bar.” We asaskk her why he seserrvveedd such a Dropped lengthy sentence, but sheshe makes no “No problem, no problem,” she mention of t thhee mumurderderr of jojoururnalist enthuses. “I have one mortgage on Veronica GuGueerriin,n, ordordered byby herher father, the bar. The mortgage is €250,000 and the resulting collapse ooff th e biggest and this is the minimum which can drugs gang Ireland had ever seseen.en. go on the ‘escritura’ [title deeds]. “Hash, into Ireland. Only the hash, We can sell for this and the rest is no cocaine or any of the other stuff,” possible in black money. she says. “The price is €450,000. This is Our man asks would she be pre- the minimum because two months pared to take some cash for the bar, before I had it on for €560,000 and which has been closed for weeks I have already dropped the price. since a lease holder pulled out after So the mortgage is for €250,000 for allegedly being threatened by John the deeds and the balance then is Gilligan, who arrived demanding black money. cash.

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connection with the murder of The Westies in 2006. BID TO OFFLOAD BOOZER FOR DODGY MONEY The remains of the vicious Dublin crime bosses Shane Coates and “Everything is perfect with this sider taking official €150,000 or that it will take us three or more trips father John Gilligan to make sure he Stephen Sugg were dug from un- bar, the licence, everything. The tax- maybe €180,000 and the rest cash? to bring the cash, but Treacy is a vet- too is happy with the deal. derneath six tons of quick-setting es are paid up to date… everything.” Treacy tells us that is very much eran when it comes to dodgy money. “My father is in England, he concrete in an industrial estate about Our man makes his excuses and possible. “I understand totally. Yes of doesn’t even live here. Don’t mind 10 miles outside the town. arranges to call Treacy later. He “Perfect. But the price is the best course.” the things in the newspapers. He It is also the estate where drug needs to speak to his boss in Russia. I can do. Before I was selling for Happy with the deal Treacy con- only done the hash. It’s my bar.” dealer John McKeown was living We phone her later tell her our boss €560,000 and I’ve already dropped tinues to chat with our men. She then asks us would we like before he disappeared without trace is happy with the price, but we need to it down to €450,000. It is the biggest “Ah I had too much Bacardi last to see the Villa in Torrevieja. She in 2007. It is suspected that he was set meet again to clear up a few matters. terrace in the area. You can fit 80 night. I’m sorry, I’m all sweaty. is looking for €300,000 cash for it up and murdered by one of Gilligan’s We make an arrangement to meet tables outside. Actually it is possible “I am going back to Ireland next and it might be suitable as a base cohorts on the Costa Blanca. the following afternoon. We are late to put 100 tables outside. week.I have two houses here too for our boss. It will be interesting to see if either and our man tells her he drank too so I come back and forth five or six of these villas have now come into the much Vodka and got delayed. Problems times a year. Complex ownership of the Gilligans or if it is just “I know I had a few meself last “I have one house up here [she points coincidence that the large house with night,” she laughs. “I live in Ireland now and I tried to a housing estate near Via Park ll] Later we text her and ask for an the pool is simply in the same area. “The price is the best what you can to rent it out for the last year to a and another house near Torrevieja – 15 address and time to meet. The Villa But we may never find out. The do?” we ask her. friend. But there were problems. I minutes away near the new hospital. is in Los Balcones she says, but we following day Treacy has gone to “How much cash can you take? You don’t want to rent it any more. Every It is a big villa I have there and I am can meet at The Filton Centre – a ground. She doesn’t answer our calls, said the mortgage is €250,000 for the day I had problems. But if your boss trying to sell it too.” small shopping complex nearby. nor our texts. bank and that has to be official, but wants to buy it and rent it out he will Our man tells her that he will The Gilligans have been synony- Maybe she drank too much Bacar- can you take more cash?” get €3,000 a month no problem. call later. mous with Los Balcones. di. Or maybe she finally smelt the “It’s possible,” she says. “How “I will get you the documents and When we call we have concerns It was at this complex in a gated proverbial rat and realised too late much like?” no problem then we can talk cash.” about the pub ownership. Our boss villa that Gilligan’s cohort ‘Fat’ that this time it was she who had “If we agree a deal? Can you con- Our man asks her if she is happy in Russia wants us to meet Treacy’s Tony Armstrong was arrested in been set up. CITY EDITION CITY EDITION SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2015 e2.45 WORLDEXCLUSIVE

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THE WORLD united with France last night as it vowed to hunt down the barbaric IS terror army that has declared “war on humanity.” Eight suicide bombers massacred 129 – mostly young people – in the worst act of violence in France since World War II. Up to 100 music fans were murdered at a rock concert in the Bataclan Theatre in the most horrific of six co-ordinated atrocities. Last night frantic families posted haunting images of missing loved ones online as the grim task of identifying the dead began. It was reported that one of the suicide bombers was a Syrian “refugee” who landed in Greece in recent months. FULL STORY- SEE France vows to avenge death of its youth PAGES 8,9,10,11&12 2 November 15, 2015 INSIDE YOUR TODAY THE LOSTLOST GODFATHER Paddy Murray ...... 14 Vogue Williams...... 35 Sunday2 ...... 85 Pub Spy ...... 93 Puzzles ...... 98-101 Daniel O’Donnell ...... 101

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13 finally caught up with him after 20 years in hiding. George ‘the Penguin’ Mitchell hasn’t been snapped in Four day Outlook more than two decades and the last thing he expected MON TUES WEDS THUR as he ambled up the street of a sleepy German village was to be confronted by our team. The 65-year-old has changed his appearance drastically, but the unmistakable waddle that earned him his nickname 9C (48F) 12C(54F) 13C(55F) 11C(52F) from one-time pal John Traynor is still hard to miss. We have been watching him for days at his new base in the 7C (45F) 6C (43F) 9C (48F) 7C (45F) Mosel Valley in the south of Germany, where he has recently settled after leaving Spain. Luxury He rarely comes out, opting instead to hide away in the luxury apartment he has rented on the banks of the Mosel river. When he does, he is collected by his friend Herman Xennt, a Dutch national with a shady past. They meet at various restaurants and coffee shops in the idyllic town of Traben Trarbach, and mingle with the tourists who flock here. For Mitchell, it’s just another day of anonymity in this little valley, far from the huge drug markets of Europe which have made him a very, very wealthy man. But his undercover life as businessman ‘Mr George Green’ is WE about to be shattered – and for the first time in years the nation will see the face of the man who has grown fat and rich on the misery of thousands. “George, can I have a word with you?”I ask as he makes his way up the street, his vast frame swaying from side n This publication to side. “How are you doing?” Exiled drug lord lives as ‘Mr Green’ in German town where he han supports the work Initially he is confused. of the Press Council “I’m grand thanks,” he says, his of Ireland and the Dublin accent still pronounced. you, you said you were a legitimate organised crime when the Court the top-20 drug traffickers in Europe Office of the Press He looks again. He glances under Ombudsman, and our businessman. Is that the case?” He of Criminal Appeal overturned a and is currently under investigation my baseball cap. His eyes darken, his staff operate within ignores me again. €900,000 defamation award to Sligo by a number of jurisdictions for his the Code of Practice for journalists in expression changes and he almost “Gardaí and other police forces believe drug dealer Martin McDonagh. involvement in heroin, cannabis and Ireland. You can obtain a copy of the spits: “F**k off.” you to be an international drug traf- ecstasy trafficking, as well as fraud Code, or contact the Council, at www. He takes out his mobile phone ficker. Do you have anything to say?” Coverage and money laundering. and barks orders: “Let them know He keeps his calm and walks For years we have followed his trail presscouncil.ie, Lo-call 1890 208 080, The judgement recognised that or email: [email protected] exactly what is going on here.” purposely on, but the look in his to in Holland, Malaga in I follow him up the street. eyes says it all – his sheer hatred and society needs to protect and encour- Spain, Marrakesh in Morocco and to “We haven’t seen you in a long contempt for the Sunday World and age the coverage of crime – some- Kusadasi in Turkey – but the slippery HAVE YOU GOT A time. Have you settled in here?” I all it represents is evident. thing the Sunday World has led the Godfather managed to evade us. ask him. He strides on. Only weeks ago, this newspa- way in since it was founded in 1973. When we finally find him he STORY FOR US? “The last time we heard from per was hailed for its coverage of Mitchell has been ranked as one of doesn’t quite see us as old friends. Phone our newsdesk on (01) 884 8973 or you can email [email protected] November 15, 2015 3 THESECRETTHE SECRET LIFELIFEOFCRIME OF CRIME BBAARRONMITCHELLON MITCHELL

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ing IR£5million worth of stolen Dunne were living in Amsterdam, computer equipment from an Irish where he specialised in supplying lord lives as ‘Mr Green’ in German town where he hangs out with shady Dutch pal truck on the outskirts of Amsterdam. heroin to Dublin and England. In He claimed he was involved in an 2000, Dunne was shot while Rachel “import-export company” and insist- and their children looked on. ed he was a legitimate businessman. Around the same time, Mitchell But then we were the first paper to was passed on to police in Holland Gardaí were informed of his wherea- However, he was jailed for a year. became a close friend of Herman Xennt. name him as a major player in the last year. The Dutch authorities bouts and a surveillance operation was The businessman had purchased an drugs trade, and as the man who informed their Spanish counterparts mounted on the property where Mitch- Tentacles old cold-war bunker where he had tried to organise the murder of CAB that his base was in Malaga, where ell and his partner, a Dutch-Moroccan set up ‘Cyberbunker’ – a web domain officer Barry Galvin. he was living in an ordinary beach- grandmother, lived a low-key existence. After his release, police believe he company he was hoping to develop. In Today, for the first time, the front apartment with his partner and The couple had met in Holland, spread his tentacles across Europe 2002, when there was a fire at the Sunday World details how Mitchell former secretary Khadija Bouchiba. where Mitchell lived for almost – organising drug shipments from premises an Ecstasy-making factory has hidden in plain sight while a decade after fleeing Ireland Colombian drug cartels, the Russian was discovered in an underground trying to legitimise his dirty money. Sales following the murder of journalist Mafia, Afghanistan’s heroin produc- area.Xennt denied it had anything For the past 10 years, the Penguin There, she had registered a Veronica Guerin and the establish- ers through Turkish agents, along to do with him. Meanwhile Mitchell, has remained on the move, often property sales and rental company, ment of the Criminal Assets Bureau. with major shipments of firearms. later moved out of Holland and kept living for months out of hotel rooms. while he travelled up and down to In 1998, in his last serious brush At that point, his daughter Rachel an even lower profile than ever. Intelligence relating to Mitchell Holland and Germany. with the law, he was caught unload- and her partner Derek ‘Maradona’ Until now... MITCHELL & SECRET CYBER BUNKER: SEE PAGES 4&5 4 November 15, 2015 THELOST GODFATHER SECRET HIDEA Mitchell MANNED SECURITY and the BOOTH cyber bunker

HIGH UP in the hills above the sleepy village of Traben Trarbach in Germany’s Mosel Valley lies a premises worthy of a scene from a James Bond movie. ‘BUSINESS’ MEETINGS: Surrounded by top-of-the-range CCTV George Mitchell, Xennt (on right) and cameras, high-security fencing, a commu- innocent associate nications mast and with its own manned security hut, the former cold-war military bunker boasts an impressive 5,000sq ft of impenetrable underground real estate. Public documents show that a company MITCHELL’S GERMAN FORTRESS AND HIS DEALINGS WITH NOTORIOUS DUTCH FRIEND registered from the premises in 2014 details that its purpose is for ‘data from Drimnagh in Dublin, is alleged to have “I understand that your newspaper has carried retention’ and is owned by one Herman Jo- By NICOLA TALLANT made a fortune moving drugs around Europe. repeated stories to the effect that Mr Mitchell is han Xennt. His company, Calibour GmbH, But with his 65th birthday approaching next engaged in drug trafficking and that he is wanted has been registered at the local court. meet with his close friend who has moved to an apartment in the town below. May and his health deteriorating due to his for such offences,” the statement read. “This Bizarrely, this is where the focus of a major weight, Mitchell is desperate to go straight investigation into the activities of George To the business associates he meets throughout is completely untrue. The Irish Government Europe that man is known as Mr George Green. so he can bequeath his millionaire’s fortune recently issued Mr Mitchell with a full passport. Mitchell has been traced. Now Dutch national to those who matter most to him – his family. Xennt and his controversial past as an alterna- But behind the facade of a respectable investor He travels freely throughout Europe.” tive internet provider is under the spotlight. lies Ireland’s most-elusive crime lord – a man Statement Sources in Ireland confirmed that Mitchell Xennt, who looks like a Bond villain, lives so cunning that he has evaded justice for two was issued a passport back in 2007. Howev- in the bunker. He is pasty, white-skinned decades while climbing to the ranks of Europe’s In a statement issued through his lawyer er, while Mitchell might insist that he isn’t and sports long blonde hair. He rarely shows elite drug kingpins. this week, Mitchell told the Sunday World engaged in drug trafficking – Europol has a his face in public, but when he does, it is to Mitchell, a former biscuit delivery man that he had nothing to do with drugs. different view. November 15, 2015 5 T HIDEAWAYFORY FOR PENGUINPENGUIN ANDANDSH SHADY PPAALL

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being collated.. The bunker caught fire in 2002 and when the Officers suspect the pair are developing a blaze was tamed an ecstasy factory was found. high-end communication system from Xennt’s Xennt insisted he had simply rented out the TRESS AND HIS DEALINGS WITH NOTORIOUS DUTCH FRIEND bunker, which would be of huge interest to space where the MDMA pressing machines international criminal outfits across the were found, but Cyberbunker went on to get world and to high-end corporate operations entangled in more and more controversy. Last year, they listed him in the top 20 It is understood that Mitchell’s uncanny who do not want their systems compromised. Most recently, in April 2013, Sven Olaf Kam- dealers in Europe and a multi-agency special sixth sense that he was under surveillance puis, a vocal spokesman for Cyberbunker, was investigation team have had him in their sparked a move from his hideout in Malaga in Controversial arrested in a dingy flat in Barcelona. sights ever since. Spain earlier this summer to rural Germany His property, named About The Vineyards, It was discovered that he had used an old van Special and to the home of his long-term pal Xennt. isn’t Xennt’s first nuclear bunker, nor is as a mobile unit and had, in the words of the Every day Xennt, or a young associate he a virgin of high-end cyber control. In international media “almost broken the internet”, Police in Holland, Spain and Germany have with Rasta dreadlocks, believed to be an Kloetinge in Holland, in the late 1990s, he plunging the world into cyber darkness. He has yet had Mitchell under surveillance for more innocent computerexpertworking for the pair, bought his first cold-war cast-off and was to be tried, but was returned to the . than six months. They have been monitoring collect Mitchell from his luxury apartment involved in the set-up of ‘Cyberbunker’ – a Police believe Mitchell’s connection with the meetings he has had throughout Europe, on the banks of the Mosel. The group drive to service provider which acted as a host for Xennt dates back 15 years when he was living including trips to Antwerp in Belgium, where local restaurants or bars where they conduct some of the Wikileaks material, as well as in Holland and after he was arrested and jailed he regularly buys and sells gold. ‘business’ meetings, details of which are other controversial sites. there for his part in the theft of computer parts. NEXT WEEK: MORE EXPLOSIVE MITCHELL REVELATIONS 4 February 7, 2016 SF KILLERGANGLAND ROCKED HEE B

THIS IS the incredible photo- graph which shows two gun- SHOOT-OUT: Aaron Bolger men, one wearing a dress, and (inset) Sean fleeing from the Regency McGovern and Hotel following the most David Byrne shocking gangland slaying in Irish criminal history. In a scene straight out of Res- ervoir Dogs, one starts to re- move his blonde wig as he runs for a getaway van which is car- rying up to four men disguised as armed Gardaí. The second gunman doesn’t even cover his face as he runs from the hotel, where the body of gangster David Byrne is lying in reception. Spectacular Seconds later, the six-man hit-team speed out of the car park of the north Dublin hotel, leaving Ireland’s crimi- nal underworld changed forever. The Sunday World understands that associates of crime lord Gerry ‘the Monk’ Hutch claim to have hired the team of assassins from the U.K. and paid €350,000 for the spectacular at- tack in the glare of the world’s media. It is understood that Daniel Kinahan and his brother Christopher Jnr were WE SNAP HOTEL HIT the targets of the shooting, but fled along with Liam Byrne. David Byrne (35), was also running for cover, but tripped and fell at the hotel’s recep- By NICOLA TALLANT his uncle’s, and father of the slain tion, where he was coldly assassinated. criminal, James ‘Jaws’ Byrne’s home Last night, cartel boss Daniel Kina- In the panic that followed, the two in Crumlin in a bullet-proof vest. Liam han and ‘Fat’ Freddie Thompson met shooters ran to a car park firing off Byrne was also at his parent’s house, in the city as they prepared for all-out shots and eventually emerged from where friends and neighbours were of- war on the streets of Dublin. the hotel where they calmly made fering their condolences to the family. Minutes before our snap was tak- their way to the getaway car. en, the duo, one in full make-up and The driver, also dressed in an ERU Identify dressed as a woman, had mingled uniform, then slowly drove to an elec- with the crowds at the weigh-in for the tric gate and used a fob to open it before Mob boss Daniel Kinahan also ar- Clash of the Clans, an MGM-sponsored driving away. rived at the house at Raleigh Square fight night which was due to take place The military precision of the opera- to offer his sympathies to veteran at the National Stadium last night. tion was extraordinary and, last night, criminal Jaws and wife Sadie. Spectators heard one gunman shout as Gardaí across the city gathered to Gardaí are looking through CCTV “he’s not here,I can’t find him”, before discuss the fallout, few were left under footage of the incident and photo- Picture © shots erupted in the conference room. any illusion but a gangland war like graphs taken by spectators at the Within seconds two men dressed in no other has been officially declared. event to identify the shooters. full Garda ERU uniforms and carrying Last night, senior Kinahan mob as- Sources say that associates of Hutch Kalashnikovs targeted drug dealer sociates were already vowing revenge are the clear suspects and they are in- David Byrne and shot him dead, in- and ‘Fat’ Freddie flew back into the vestigating if the gunmen were hired juring his associates Sean McGovern country on Friday night. assassins or local Dublin criminals. and Aaron Bolger. Yesterday, Thompson arrived at Yesterday, Gardaí said they had no

THE bloody shoot-out which after shots were fired at him outside lerupted at a Dublin hotel on a boxing event in Co. Dublin.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 7, 2015 e 2.45 Friday was shocking, but far from We also revealed on January 10, HOW WE unpredictable. l2016, how Gardaí had taken the Since the murder of Gary Hutch last unprecedented step of warning more September, the Sunday World has led than 20 people – including members the way in detailing the simmering of the Hutch clan – that their lives feud between two of Ireland’s most were under threat following an emer- TRACKED dangerous gangs. gency meeting in Dublin. On September 27, 2015, we On January 17, 2016, we detailed ATALLANT EXCLUSIVE EXCLUSIVE By NICOL lrevealed how gangster Gary lhow the Byrne clan were the Hutch ‘Paid in Blood’ for crossing prime targets in the simmering war PAID IN the Kinahans – a murder which would – eerily predicting the death of gang- spark this bloody feud. ster David Byrne (far right) this week. FEUD IN VOGUE: On November 8, 2015, we ex- As the tensions continued to ‘I’M GETTING lclusively revealed how the first lbuild, we revealed how associ- BETTER AT BLOOD BEING ALONE’ shots of the war were taken when ates of crime lord Gerry ‘the Monk’ READ HER COLUMN ON PAGE 23 Spot where cartel killed Hutch over €100k SUNDAY convicted criminal Liam Roe – a Hutch have taken out a sinister GAME’S cousin of ‘Fat’ Freddie Thompson gangland insurance policy in our POOL OF BLOOD: PHILLYU-TURN Nicola stand sabove the spotwhere Ga ry Hutch, SEE SPORT pictured le ft,was shot UNDERWORLD earlierthisweek – was lucky to escape with his life edition on January 24, 2016.

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ND ROCKED BY BRAZEN ASSASSINATION IN COLD BLOOD: Gunman leaves the Regency Hotel after brutal ILLER HEELS murder

SHOCKING: Gardaí remove the body of David Byrne from hotel

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information that any incident was They said six people were involved is understood that both the Kinahan going to take place at the hotel and in in the incident. Three were wearing and Hutch sides have been re-aligning a show of force brought out their top police style uniforms similar to a themselves for battle. brass to allay the fears of the public. SWAT team uniform, including metal Hutch, it was claimed, was reluctant At an appeal for information, As- helmets. to go to war with the Kinahan mob, but sistant Commissioners Jack Nolan, For months, since the murder of Gary his associates were anxious to prove John O’Mahony and Derek Byrne Hutch (right) in Spain, a feud has been they were the stronger faction. were joined by the Detective Chief simmering between the Hutch family Assistant Commissioner Nolan Superintendents from Drugs and Or- and the Kinahan mob, who are the believes the “violent perpetrator’s” ganised Crime, the National Bureau biggest drug outfit shipping cocaine can be located and admitted Gardaí of Criminal Investigation and local and weapons into Ireland. were looking into the possibility the officers from Ballymun where the criminals fled the country. investigation is centred. Raised Assistant Commissioner O’Mahony Gardaí want information about the described the killers as “ruthless”. movement of the silver Ford Transit Last November at a boxing event at Cop bosses said that armed patrols van that was used in the gun attack. the Red Cow Inn, Liam Roe survived will continue throughout Dublin “Did anybody see this van in the an attempted shooting when two men city over the coming days. vicinity of Swords Road, Griffith believed to be associates of Hutch O’Mahony said there will Avenue or the Charlemont Estate in pulled up and raised a gun at him. be some inquiries on an Marino between 2.30pm and 3pm or He was also at the Regency when the international basis – at any time in any location in the last shooting occurred. including their col- number of days,” Nolan said. Since the incident at the Red Cow, it leagues in Spain.

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FEARS FOR S: NICOLA TALLANT FLASHCAR By DavidByrne and LUXURY: Byrneclan THEfirst family of ‘bl ing’ expensivejeep partied in Cancun –the Byrne sofRaleigh Square –are topofalist of targets in alooming war between theKinahan drug mob and members of Ire- 20 ON MOB land’smostfeared crime family. Senior Kinahanlieutenants, brothers Liam an dDavid Byrneand theirfatherJames ‘Jaws’ Byrne, have been iden- tified to memb ers of therival Hutch factionasprime targets to thosehell-bentonavenging WARHITLIST themurderofThe Monk Gerry Hutch’s nephewGary. HIJACKED:Garrett Byrneand JohnRocheattended pr otest over sit eatMooreS TheMonkhas been told Liam BREAK: treet SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: BY NICOLA TALLANT Byrneconvinced Ga ry to re turn Liam and to Spa in shortlybefore he was ‘Jaws’ shot dead. GERRY‘the Monk’ Hutch is facing the darkest hours of his criminal career MINTED: Byrne Reluctant Liam as Gardaí on both sides of the city held an emergency meeting while Dublin’s Byrne gangland remains on aknife edge. It is understood that theHutch and INLA THUG IN factionremainsreluctant to sanction The family Godfather has been dragged out of semi-retirement and into afeud giventhe Simoan anyshootings,but has been roe by relatives who have been working with the Kinahan cartel, but who have now assurances of seniorparamilitaries McEn fallen foul of the mob. As the two sides line up for battle, Hutch is desperate to that he has theirfull backingifhis keep alid on tensions believing that tit-for-tat fighting will be used as an excuse side go to warwiththe Kinahan Cartel. by ambitious dealers to take out their rivals. Sources bel ieve that theByrnes Morethan 20 people, including close relatives of Hutch, on both sides of the maybecome targetsonbothsides of thedeadlydivide,askey members PROTEST divide have been warned their lives areindanger and issued with official GIM AT theirown mobremain suspicious [Garda Information Message] forms by cops. of It is understood that Hutch is being urged to go to war with the drug gang, who other criminals and paramilitary groups feel have expanded out of control. Sources say he has been offered the RISING SITE backing of former republican godfa- thers and other paramilitary heavies By NICOLA TALLANT as well as senior criminals. THIS IS the INLA boss who was nabbed at a But the veteran armed robber,who bomb-making factory taking centr estage in has been living between Lanzarote and the fight to save Moor eStreet in memory of the heroes of 1916. Dublin, is reluctant to sanction any ma- Garrett ‘Redser’ Byrne is currently under sur- jor gun battle with the Kinahan hoods RNE veillance by Gardaí investigating the murder of Y CLAN: B crime boss Andy Connors and akidnap carried as he knows it is bad for business. THE Gerry out by ‘Border Fox’ Dessie O’Hare. He lives on the While Hutch has no involvement in Hutch grounds of businessman Jimmy Mansfield Jnr’s drugs himself, many of his key asso- (inset) gated mansion, Tassagart House. ciates and some of his close relatives Gary In asuresign that the protest, supported by Sinn Hutch Fein leader Gerry Adams, has been infiltrated by make their living by importing cocaine, dissidents and criminals, Byrne stands proud heroin and cannabis into Ireland. with his pal John Roche –asecurity guar dinjured during akidnap and vicious assault last summer. Byrne is believed to be the leader of an INLA Seizures brigade of extortionists and thugs in south Dublin and is understood to have been putting pressure It is understood that significant on millionair ecriminal Connors for money in the recent seizures made by the local months leading up to his assassination. It is understood that Byrne has told comrades drug units and the Garda’sDrugs and TENSE TIMES: GerryHutch he had absolutely nothing to do with the murder Organised Crime Bureau areadirect and instead insists that Connors’ own associates on the life of Gerry ‘the Monk’ Hutch had him killed when they discovered he had been result of tensions within the under- CAMPAIGN:McDo while he was in Lanzarote recently and UM ripping them of ffor years. nald an dAdams pr otest world as informers tout on rivals. AT ed an INLA gunman was responsible for Connors’ the Sunday World understands that he M Occupied However,greed and ascramble for LTI murder at his home in Saggart in August 2014. was actually back in Ireland when the U turf at alower level in the chain will The Sunday World was watching as Byrne stood The father of six was executed by alone shooter incident supposedly occurred. on the podium during last weekend’ who riddled him with bullets while several of his come at aprice for everyone, senior sprotest, children looked on in horror. Many senior Kinahan associates around Dublin. when activists occupied anumber of buildings underworld sources claim, as the Kina- r20years,since bef ore the on the famous street, claiming works would Byrne’sstar rose in the INLA when af of aflashlifestyle that has brought Not fo by KildareRoadw ormer have already gone into hiding in ad- theCAB,have suspected here he to oparks one of thefirst ma jortargetsofthe threaten locations wher commander was jailed. He was arrested in Sep- han and Hutch sides have asymbiotic theattention of theCriminalAssets set-up of up top-of-the-ra ethe 1916 rebels gs rs been so brazen about ngemotors,many Criminal As sets Bureauafter it was had their last headquarters in the Rising. tember 2008 after abust on an apartment which vance of any bloodshed, including en- Bureauand theGarda’s newDru drugdeale worth well in excess relationship whereone cannot operate eaudown ff theirfortunes around of €100,000. setupin1996. Thousands of signatures have been was being used to make pipe bombs. forcers Gary Finnegan and Paul Rice. andOrganisedCrime B ur Family flash their cash but are now showingo JoanneByrneand h ods, where er husband In July of 1998 he an ddru added to the group’ In November 2009 he was jailed for four years for without the other. on them andtheir associates. theirown neighbourho Thomas ‘B gGodfather scause, but most The Kinahan Cartel control the vast jor on with awe omber’Kavanaghare George ‘the Penguin’M have no idea that dissident hardliners are membership of an illegal organisation. Gardaí aredivided about the power WhileGardaíhave nabbed ma localchildren look regulars at itchell were ther key ge cars and theCancunresort, which namedincourtwhent trying to hijack it. Byrne, who is originally from Kimmage in Dublin, majority of the drugs trade in Ireland seizuresbelongingtoo at theirtop-of-the-ran is amongthe worl he CAB gotHigh of the so-called ‘Hutch army’. ob,the Byrnes ha ve d’smost-expensive Courtjudgements again Byrne (34), is listed as living at an was one of five INLA members who wer enabbed players in th em trappings of we alth. holiday de stination st them. from their base on the Costa del Sol ctimsofrecent successes. targets in massive gangland battle s, an dare be- Mitchell, whowas at th address which was once during the raid. Byrne was arrested outside the vi Many believe the Kinahan mob are not been lieved to have conv etime being aMansfield and have long been regarded as un- dasmanyoftheir criminal Collection inced thewider held in aDutch jail, wa owned property in the grounds of the apartment in acar and was found to be in posses- afraid of the power of the notorious An familytojointhemt sorderedto sion of ntemporaries trytoremain under hisyear. payup€130,000 family home, Tasagart House. awalkie talkie. The touchable by other gangland criminals. co yfestive break. dthe SundayWorld re- Thecouple live andinaseparate was told that he and his cronies wer Dublin family and their associates, eradar,theyhave re turned the s. at swim-upbarstochildcareisin- on thefamil Last weeken in a€1m Bi rming- judgementK Gardaí ar ecurrently monitoring his esupplying th uriousholidaydestination eByrnefamilyare aineCowboy’Liam hamhome where we photog avanaghwas told to pay They use anumber of trusted agents countrytothe badold days with their satthe cludedfor thefamilies of theworld’s Members of th vealed how ‘Coc raphed asimilar amou movements and associates as part of a pipe bombs to several feuding Dublin gangs. while others say they don’thave the Sources sa ythatfellowguest Criminal As set uilthis ownper-them last year livin nt. He admitted he was an INLA member and his vulgardisplays of we alth in th eir richest business peo ple. amongthe Gardaand Byrnehas even b glikeneighbour- In number of investigations involving strength to take on the mob. in Ireland to distribute huge quantities Moon Palace five star resort were hor- sina eigh Square,ingpremiersh court he said hishome on serious court case hear owncommunity of Crumlin. on Liam,aclose friend of Bureau’snumber-one target sonalhaciendainRal ip foot ballers. crime. It is understood that he and his dhecame from arespectable rified by the“rough”manners of the Theirs mily. Bomber Knocknarea Road in Drimn agh family and was the father of one son with another Hutch has refused to meet represent- of cocaine, heroin and cannabis. In an extraordinarytwo fingers ’s (right)sonsDan- massive probe into drugsmuggling where he liveswithhis fa ,who was afirst co usinof cronies ar esuspected of extorting Byrnemen andcomplaints were made Christy Kinahan tachedmurdered was hisonlyassetand h eeventually child on the way at the time. However,therehave been serious to theGardaí, th efamilyevenen- r, treatedwife andmoney laundering through a He has turned hissemi-de dealer ‘Hatchet’Kava- cash from criminals and offering atives of the Kinahan Cartel despite about thelanguage of thewomen. iel andChristopher Jn ichnagh, run hadtohanditovertoCAB,leaving The same year our team photographed Byrne joyeda€100,000 holiday at atop three number of industries,includingthe house into ahugeproperty wh sacar business,but has ‘security’ services to busi- tensions within the Cartel’sorganisa- SimoanMcEnroe andtheir evid Ireland’s penniless forthe U.K. in full terror uniform parading at an INLA/IRSP approaches and will not sit down with resort in Cancun, Mexico, wh ere Richest carimportation bu siness. dwarfsneighbouringhomesand entlygot theMidas touch, as his nessmen. childrentothe bre ak,while br other JoanneByrnehas ledthe way colour party in anyone except Christy Kinahan Snr tion which has lead to at least three they spla shed theirdrugmoney on dbrother Da vidhave be- where he park suphis co llection of stunningpileinTamworth proves. Gardaí Tallaght to commemorate John David went alone as he ha sjustsplit Liam an Th in showingher fa milyhow believe that he Morris champagne andfinedining. Veterancriminal‘Jaws’ and rgetsinthe fightagainst cars includingRange Rovers,BMWs, efamilyemployafull-timegar- demanded money –shot dead while carrying out an armed or John Cunningham for peace talks. murders. from hisgirlfriend. come key ta dene to enjoylife. S he celebrat- robbery in 1997. More than 20 members of theByrne hiswifeSadie tookasuite at the as they ha ve been Audis andMercedes jeeps. rand have ahot tuband private from ‘Fat’ Andy in As well as the murder of Gary Hutch Sisters Mela nieJohnson, Mar ia organisedcrime barint ed her40th birthdayin Dermot Ryan John Cunningham (63), who was familykickedbackand relaxedin €5,000-per-personresort, where gtheir wealth Hisbrother Da vidislivinginnear- he sprawlingbackgarden. the months be- –the brother of murdered Real ux- Byrneand J oanneByrnewerealso so pu blicly flashin Bo Vegaswhenshe flew IRA Chief Alan Ryan jailed for the notorious 1986 kidnap (34) in Spain last year,almost exactly a thesun in one of theworld’s most-l everythingfrom de signer cockta ils mber was convicted of armed forehis death. –was also at the protest last robberyinthe early 1990sand was 25 women first class week, which was attended by Sinn Fein leader of heiress Jennifer Guinness, is the year earlier Gerard‘Hatchet’ Kavanagh to Si nCity. It is suspect- Gerry Adams and Mary Lou McDonald. right-hand man of Christy Snr and is (44) was shot dead in aSpanish bar