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ghostfacekilla wrote: »I wonder how many of the jailed kinahan cronies got offered a deal to take LB or Daniel Kinahan down.
What could they give them? Not as if any of the hitmen have personally got their orders from them, bar perhaps the very first hit or two.
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How complicated is this Robbie Lawlor murder, Barry young from Sligo, Mr Big, Owen Maguire and Price now all in it with the belfast lads too0 -
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How complicated is this Robbie Lawlor murder, Barry young from Sligo, Mr Big, Owen Maguire and Price now all in it with the belfast lads too
Guy had to go, made too many enemies, loose cannon
Samuel Ward (c. 1963 – 31 October 1992) was the leader of the Irish People's Liberation Organisation's Belfast Brigade. The IPLO was made up of ex-members of the Irish National Liberation Army. Following its split from and feud with the INLA, the IPLO split into two factions, Ward running one.[citation needed]
The Irish People's Liberation Organisation was a small Irish republican paramilitary organisation which was formed in 1986 by disaffected and expelled members of the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) whose factions coalesced in the aftermath of the supergrass trials. It developed a reputation for intra-republican and sectarian violence and criminality, before being forcibly disbanded by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) in 1992.
Some of the IPLO's most notable attacks during its short existence (compared to other paramilitary groups in Ireland during The Troubles) were:
the Orange Cross shooting in which IPLO gunmen killed a member of the Red Hand Commando and injured an Ulster Defence Regiment soldier;
the Donegall Arms shooting when they did a "spray job" (spraying the pub with bullets indiscriminately) on a Protestant-owned pub, killing two Protestant civilians and injuring four others; and
the assassination of outspoken Loyalist and alleged Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) member George Seawright in November 1987.[1]
On 1 May 1990 the IPLO became a Proscribed Organization by the British government.[2] The IPLO remains a Proscribed Organisation in the United Kingdom under the Terrorism Act 2000.[3]
Foundation
The IPLO emerged from a split within the INLA. After the 1981 Irish hunger strike, in which three of its members died, the INLA began to break apart. The INLA virtually dissolved as a coherent force in the mid-1980's. Factions associated with Belfast and Dublin fell into dispute with each other. When INLA man Harry Kirkpatrick turned supergrass, he implicated many of his former comrades in various activities and many of them were convicted on his testimony.
Members both inside and out of prison broke away from the INLA and set up the IPLO. Some key players at the outset were Tom McAllister, Gerard Steenson, Jimmy Brown and Martin "Rook" O'Prey. Jimmy Brown formed a minor political group, known as the Republican Socialist Collective, which was to act as the political wing of the IPLO.[4]
The IPLO's initial priority was to forcibly disband the Irish Republican Socialist Movement from which it had split, and most of its early attacks reflected this, being more frequently against former comrades than on the security forces. The feud with the INLA lasted from 1986 to 1987 and resulted in the deaths of 12 people including IPLO leader Gerard Steenson who was shot in March 1987.[5]
Internal feud
The IPLO was accused of becoming involved in the illegal drug trade, especially in ecstasy. Some of its Belfast members were also accused of the prolonged gang rape of a North Down woman in Divis Flats in 1990.[6] Many of its recruits had fallen out of favour with the IRA and the portents for its future were not good. Sammy Ward, a low-level IPLO member, broke away from the main body of the organisation with a few supporters when the IPLO were severely depleted and weak in Belfast. His faction attacked the rest of the IPLO, culminating in the killing of Jimmy Brown. A full-scale feud followed between two factions terming themselves "Army Council" (led by Jimmy Brown) and "Belfast Brigade" (led by Ward), which led to the 3000th killing of the Troubles, Hugh McKibben, a 21-year-old "Army Council" man. Brown had been the previous victim when he was shot dead in West Belfast on 18 August 1992.[7] This feud was described by the IPLO's critics as a lethal squabble over money and drugs.
Disbandment
The Provisional IRA – by far the largest armed republican group in Ireland – decided this was an opportunity to attack and remove the IPLO given the IPLO's involvement in the drug trade. They mounted an operation to wipe out the IPLO. On Saturday 31 October 1992, in an event that was later dubbed "Night of the Long Knives" by locals in Belfast,[8] the IRA attacked the two IPLO factions in Belfast, killing the breakaway Belfast Brigade leader Sammy Ward in Short Strand.[9] There were also raids on pubs and clubs where IPLO members were kneecapped. On 2 November 1992 the second-in-command of the IPLO Belfast Brigade formally surrendered to the Provisional IRA Belfast Brigade adjutant, which brought an end to the group in Belfast.[10]
Outside Belfast the IRA did not attack any IPLO units and issued statements absolving the IPLO units in Derry, Newry and Armagh from any involvement in the drugs trade that was alleged against those in Belfast. In Dublin the IRA reprieved the IPLO Chief of Staff in return for surrendering a small cache of arms held in Ballybough.[10]
Casualties
According to the Sutton database of deaths at the University of Ulster's CAIN project, the IPLO was responsible for 22 killings during the Troubles. Among its victims were twelve civilians, six INLA members, two loyalist paramilitary figures, a Royal Navy reservist, and one member of the British security forces, a Royal Ulster Constabulary constable.
List of attacks/actions
1986
Autumn - Former INLA Volunteers led by Jimmy Brown broke away to form the Irish People's Liberation Army (IPLA) which was later renamed the Irish People's Liberation Organisation (IPLO).[11] They also set up a small political wing called the Republican Socialist Collective (RSC).[12]
10 November - Off-duty RUC officer Derek Patterson was shot dead by the IPLO on Fitzroy Avenue, off the Ormeau Road, Belfast. Both the IRA and later the INLA tried to claim responsibility.[13][14]
29 November - The IPLO launched a hand grenade attack on Queens Street RUC station in Belfast injuring six officers. Several shots were also fired. Responsibility for the attack and the shooting of Constable Derek Patterson was claimed by the "People's Liberation Army" (PLA).[15][16]
21 December - Thomas McCartan (31), a member of the INLA, was shot dead by the Irish People's Liberation Organisation in Andersonstown, Belfast. This was the first killing in an INLA / IPLO feud that was to last until March 1987.[17][18] The IPLO used the alias "INLA Army Council" to claim responsibility for actions carried out during the feud.[19][20]
1987
20 January - Rosnaree Hotel shooting: The IPLO killed two leading members of the INLA (Thomas "Ta" Power & John O'Reilly), they shot them inside a hotel in Drogheda, Co. Louth.[21]
28 January: The IPLO tried to kill INLA member Emmanuel Gargan in the Lower Ormeau, Belfast. He was wounded in another attempt two days later.[22]
18 February - The IPLO shot dead INLA Volunteer Michael Kearney near his home in Ballymurphy, Belfast.[23]
10 March: The IPLO shot and wounded the chairman of the IRSP Kevin McQuillan at his home in Springfield Park, Belfast. His brother was also wounded in the attack.[24]
21 March - The IPLO shot dead a INLA Volunteer Emmanuel Gargan on the Ormeau Road in Belfast.[23][25]
22 March - The IPLO shot dead INLA Volunteer Kevin Duffy. His body was found in the playground of St. Brigid's School, Nursery Road, Armagh. This was the last killing of the IPLO/INLA feud.[23]
19 November - George Seawright an extreme Loyalist activist known for his anti-Catholic views was shot by the IPLO and he died of his wounds on the 3 December 1987.[26]
19 November - The IPLO shot and injured a woodwork instructor in County Armagh. The IPLO claimed the man was a member of the UDR but he had no ties to the security forces..[27][28]
1988
5 January - The IPLO shot and wounded a Catholic man in Armagh.[29]
August - The IPLO carried out an attempted bombing of a home it claimed was used by Loyalist paramilitaries in East Belfast.[30]
9 August - The IPLO sent a 5 lb (2.3 kg) parcel bomb to the home of Unionist politician William McCrea but the bomb was defused.[31][32]
9 August - The IPLO lured a Loyalist to a house on Cliftonville Road, Belfast where an assassination attempt failed when a gun jammed.[33]
11 August - The IPLO mounted two gun attacks against the RUC and British Army in Belfast; attacking a joint patrol in Grosvenor Road and exchanging fire with British soldiers at Divis Flats.[34]
12 August - IPLO members loaded a van with explosives and forced its owner to drive to the law courts, where the bomb exploded. Later a bomb was defused in East Belfast.[35][36]
19 August - A parcel bomb was sent to the home of Unionist MP Ken Maginnis.[35]
7 September - UDA Volunteer William Quee was shot and killed by the IPLO at his shop in Oldpark Road, Belfast.[37]
3 October - The IPLO shot dead Henry McNamee at his girlfriend's home at Lenadoon Avenue, Belfast, afterwards claiming he was an informer. Apparently, the IPLO had instructed McNamee to pose as an informer in 1987 so the IPLO could kill his RUC handler. This planned ambush failed to materialise and McNamee moved to London.[37][38]
1989
16 February - Orange Cross Social Club shooting: The IPLO attacked a Protestant pub on the Shankill Road, Belfast, killing Red Hand Commando (RHC) Volunteer Stephen McRea & injuring several people.[39][40]
22 August - The IPLO claimed responsibility for several incendiary devices planted in business premises in Belfast; one bomb was defused inside a department store in Belfast city centre and two more were found and defused in a large DIY shop in Newtownabbey. A fourth device found at the terminal building of the city's airport caused disruption to flights.[41]
6 November - Catholic civilian Robbert Burns was shot dead by the IPLO near his home in Milltown Avenue, Co. Antrim, mistaken for a security forces member.[39]
10 December - Two IPLO members shot and injured a gendarme in the Belgian port of Antwerp and escaped on foot. They had been intending to smuggle a small consignment of arms aboard a freighter bound for Ireland. Afterwards Dutch police carried out raids on four homes and arrested an Irish citizen in Amsterdam.[42][43]
1990
14 March - The IPLO launched a gun attack on an RUC officer's home in West Belfast. Later on in East Belfast an assassination attempt failed. Nobody was hurt in either attack.[35]
14 March - The IPLO attempted to assassinate a prominent Loyalist at Derrycoole Way, Newtownabbey, on the outskirts of Belfast. After he failed to appear, the IPLO members opened fire on RUC officers and UDR soldiers on Roden Street as they returned to West Belfast.[44]
20 March - William McClure a Protestant civilian was shot dead at his Belfast home by an IPLO hit squad. The IPLO claimed he was a member of the UVF.[45][46]
28 March - The IPLO became a proscribed organization in Northern Ireland.[47]
18 April - An IPLO unit was ambushed by undercover British soldiers as they tried to attack a local RUC man in South Armagh. A gun battle ensued and the commander of the IPLO unit and former Provisional IRA volunteer Martin Corrigan was killed in the gun battle.[48]
20 May - Two IPLO members, one of them armed, forced their way into a home on Faith Avenue in the East Wall area of Dublin. The IPLO claimed the owner, who was absent, had sexually abused children in the area and they had been intending to "punish" him.[49]
15 July - The IPLO shot dead William Sloss a Protestant civilian in his home in Lisburn, Belfast. A caller to the BBC in Belfast claimed the IPLO shot William Sloss because he was a member of the UVF.[45][50] Allegedly, Sloss was a drug dealer who had fallen out with Loyalist paramilitaries, who helped arrange his killing.[51]
1 August - An IPLO unit tried to kill leading Loyalist "Chuck" Berry but failed.[35]
11 September - The IPLO was behind the shooting and injuring of a Protestant civilian on the Shankill Road, Belfast.[35]
1991
1 January - The IPLO shot and wounded an RUC Reserve officer in Dundrod, County Antrim.[52]
20 April - An IPLO Volunteer lost three fingers after a botched hand grenade attack on Bessbrook RUC station.[53]
5 June - An IPLO hit team shot and injured Eddie McIlwaine, a member of the notorious Shankill Butchers, while he was driving a taxi at Lower North Street in Belfast city centre. The IPLO unit chased the taxi and fired several more shots, hitting McIlwaine twice more and slightly injuring a 15-year old-girl.[53][54]
18 July - The IPLO shot dead an off duty member of the Royal Naval Reserve (John McMaster) at his shop in Church Lane, Belfast.[55]
16 August: The UVF shot dead IPLO member Martin "Rook" O'Prey at his home on Ardmoulin Terrace, Belfast. His seven-year-old daughter was injured in the attack.[56][57]
3 September - The IPLO shot and wounded a Protestant civilian from a passing car in North Belfast.[53][58]
13 September - The IPLO wounded a man working at his car repair shop in north Belfast.[59]
7 October - An IPLO unit fired several shots into the Ivy Bar in the Donegall Pass area of Belfast with a submachine gun, injuring 2 people.[60][53][61]
10 October - An IPLO active service unit carried out a gun attack on the Diamond Jubilee Bar on the Shankill Road Belfast, killing a UDA Volunteer Harry Ward & injuring several people. Their target was a well-known Loyalist but he wasn't present.[55][62][53][63]
10 October - The IPLO shot and injured a Protestant civilian at his home in Newry.[55][64]
12 October - The IPLO claimed responsibility for bombing the Derby House bar on Stewartstown Road, west Belfast. Armed men had entered the premises at midday and left a device; the explosion caused severe damage. Afterwards the IPLO warned that pubs that did not prevent drug abuse on their premises would be targeted.[65]
24 October - A Protestant man escaped four IPLO gunmen who had forcibly entered his home off Cavhill Road in North Belfast. He leapt through a window, breaking his arm.[66]
12 December - The IPLO carried out a firebombing attack on a veterinary surgery in Newry claiming it served the British Army. The claim was denied.[53]
15 December - The IPLO shot dead a Catholic civilian Colm Mahon at his workplace on Little Donegal Street, Belfast.[55]
20 December - An IPLO member (Patrick McDonald) was shot dead in his salon at St Aidan's Park Road, Marino, Dublin. Although the IPLO promised retaliation, the perpetrator and motive was unclear.[67]
21 December - The IPLO shot dead two Protestant civilians (Barry Watson and Thomas Gorman) during a gun attack carried out on the Donegall Arms pub in Roden Street, Village, Belfast.[55][68]
1992
17 February - The IPLO shot dead a Protestant civilian at his workplace in Upper Crumlin Road, Belfast.[69]
12 April - The IPLO issued a death threat to Irish soccer player David O'Leary and the Football Association of Ireland declaring him and his family "legitimate target". The IPLO threat alleged O'Leary, then living in England, was a supporter of the Conservative Party. After widespread condemnation the IPLO denied sending the threat although the letter contained a recognised codeword.[70]
5 May - The IPLO shot dead a Protestant civilian during a gun attack on the Mount Inn pup, North Queen Street, Belfast. The IPLO claimed the attack was revenge for the killing of one of their own Volunteers six days earlier by the Ulster Volunteer Force.[69]
June - An armed IPLO unit led by Sammy Ward burst into a pub in Belfast on the Antrim Road and read out a statement which said in part "the IPLO would not take Provo aggression lying down". Several members of the IRA were drinking in the pub at the time. This led to further tension between the IPLO and the IRA.[71]
19 June - The IPLO claimed responsibility for a gun attack on a Protestant man driving along the Upper Crumlin Road, Belfast. His common law wife and daughter were also in the vehicle but there were no reported injuries.[72]
19 July - The IPLO in Dublin issued a threat to "seek out and kill" anyone from the Republic who joined the new British Army Royal Irish Regiment[73]
18 August - Leading IPLO member Jimmy Brown was shot dead by the IPLO Belfast Brigade. This was the start of an internal IPLO feud. Dozens of shootings, robberies, and takeovers of clubs and bars occurred in the following weeks.[69][74]
20 August - The IPLO shot and seriously injured a security guard at his home in Bessbrook, County Armagh.[53] He was targeted because the firm he worked for had been guarding Newry courthouse, damaged in an IRA bomb attack.[75]
25 August - A leading member of the IPLO Belfast Brigade was shot and injured in an ambush by the IPLO Army Council faction in the Springfield Road area of Belfast.[76]
27 August - Hugh McKibben, a member of the IPLO Army Council, was shot dead at the Lámh Dhearg GAA social club on the outskirts of Belfast. His was killed by the IPLO Belfast Brigade during an internal IPLO feud. Two other men were wounded in the attack.[53][69]
11 September - Michael Macklin an IPLO member was shot dead in the Whiterock area of west Belfast. A Dublin-based IPLO faction accused him of being involved in the ‘Belfast Brigade of the IPLO’ a breakaway faction responsible for the killing of both Hugh McKibben and Jimmy Brown.[53]
18 September - A man was shot and injured when gunmen opened fire on his car in the Divis Flats area of Belfast. Related to an internal IPLO feud.[77]
20 September - The IPLO firebombed a pub in Belfast City Centre called "The Waterfront". The pub was firebombed because it failed to pay money to the IPLO through extortion. This was one of the last actions carried out by the paramilitary group during a six-year campaign.[78]
30 September - A former IRA prisoner was shot and wounded when gunmen, believed to IPLO members, fired into the living room of his home in the New Lodge area of Belfast. Related to an internal IPLO feud.[79]
1997
21 April – A group of men claiming to be from the IPLO carried out a robbery on a Credit Union in Newry.[80]
He was killed by the Provisional IRA in its 1992 purge of the IPLO's Belfast Brigade and Army Council facti0 -
Paul_Crosby wrote: »Guy had to go, made too many enemies, loose cannon
Samuel Ward (c. 1963 – 31 October 1992) was the leader of the Irish People's Liberation Organisation's Belfast Brigade. The IPLO was made up of ex-members of the Irish National Liberation Army. Following its split from and feud with the INLA, the IPLO split into two factions, Ward running one.[citation needed]
The Irish People's Liberation Organisation was a small Irish republican paramilitary organisation which was formed in 1986 by disaffected and expelled members of the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) whose factions coalesced in the aftermath of the supergrass trials. It developed a reputation for intra-republican and sectarian violence and criminality, before being forcibly disbanded by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) in 1992.
Some of the IPLO's most notable attacks during its short existence (compared to other paramilitary groups in Ireland during The Troubles) were:
the Orange Cross shooting in which IPLO gunmen killed a member of the Red Hand Commando and injured an Ulster Defence Regiment soldier;
the Donegall Arms shooting when they did a "spray job" (spraying the pub with bullets indiscriminately) on a Protestant-owned pub, killing two Protestant civilians and injuring four others; and
the assassination of outspoken Loyalist and alleged Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) member George Seawright in November 1987.[1]
On 1 May 1990 the IPLO became a Proscribed Organization by the British government.[2] The IPLO remains a Proscribed Organisation in the United Kingdom under the Terrorism Act 2000.[3]
Foundation
The IPLO emerged from a split within the INLA. After the 1981 Irish hunger strike, in which three of its members died, the INLA began to break apart. The INLA virtually dissolved as a coherent force in the mid-1980's. Factions associated with Belfast and Dublin fell into dispute with each other. When INLA man Harry Kirkpatrick turned supergrass, he implicated many of his former comrades in various activities and many of them were convicted on his testimony.
Members both inside and out of prison broke away from the INLA and set up the IPLO. Some key players at the outset were Tom McAllister, Gerard Steenson, Jimmy Brown and Martin "Rook" O'Prey. Jimmy Brown formed a minor political group, known as the Republican Socialist Collective, which was to act as the political wing of the IPLO.[4]
The IPLO's initial priority was to forcibly disband the Irish Republican Socialist Movement from which it had split, and most of its early attacks reflected this, being more frequently against former comrades than on the security forces. The feud with the INLA lasted from 1986 to 1987 and resulted in the deaths of 12 people including IPLO leader Gerard Steenson who was shot in March 1987.[5]
Internal feud
The IPLO was accused of becoming involved in the illegal drug trade, especially in ecstasy. Some of its Belfast members were also accused of the prolonged gang rape of a North Down woman in Divis Flats in 1990.[6] Many of its recruits had fallen out of favour with the IRA and the portents for its future were not good. Sammy Ward, a low-level IPLO member, broke away from the main body of the organisation with a few supporters when the IPLO were severely depleted and weak in Belfast. His faction attacked the rest of the IPLO, culminating in the killing of Jimmy Brown. A full-scale feud followed between two factions terming themselves "Army Council" (led by Jimmy Brown) and "Belfast Brigade" (led by Ward), which led to the 3000th killing of the Troubles, Hugh McKibben, a 21-year-old "Army Council" man. Brown had been the previous victim when he was shot dead in West Belfast on 18 August 1992.[7] This feud was described by the IPLO's critics as a lethal squabble over money and drugs.
Disbandment
The Provisional IRA – by far the largest armed republican group in Ireland – decided this was an opportunity to attack and remove the IPLO given the IPLO's involvement in the drug trade. They mounted an operation to wipe out the IPLO. On Saturday 31 October 1992, in an event that was later dubbed "Night of the Long Knives" by locals in Belfast,[8] the IRA attacked the two IPLO factions in Belfast, killing the breakaway Belfast Brigade leader Sammy Ward in Short Strand.[9] There were also raids on pubs and clubs where IPLO members were kneecapped. On 2 November 1992 the second-in-command of the IPLO Belfast Brigade formally surrendered to the Provisional IRA Belfast Brigade adjutant, which brought an end to the group in Belfast.[10]
Outside Belfast the IRA did not attack any IPLO units and issued statements absolving the IPLO units in Derry, Newry and Armagh from any involvement in the drugs trade that was alleged against those in Belfast. In Dublin the IRA reprieved the IPLO Chief of Staff in return for surrendering a small cache of arms held in Ballybough.[10]
Casualties
According to the Sutton database of deaths at the University of Ulster's CAIN project, the IPLO was responsible for 22 killings during the Troubles. Among its victims were twelve civilians, six INLA members, two loyalist paramilitary figures, a Royal Navy reservist, and one member of the British security forces, a Royal Ulster Constabulary constable.
List of attacks/actions
1986
Autumn - Former INLA Volunteers led by Jimmy Brown broke away to form the Irish People's Liberation Army (IPLA) which was later renamed the Irish People's Liberation Organisation (IPLO).[11] They also set up a small political wing called the Republican Socialist Collective (RSC).[12]
10 November - Off-duty RUC officer Derek Patterson was shot dead by the IPLO on Fitzroy Avenue, off the Ormeau Road, Belfast. Both the IRA and later the INLA tried to claim responsibility.[13][14]
29 November - The IPLO launched a hand grenade attack on Queens Street RUC station in Belfast injuring six officers. Several shots were also fired. Responsibility for the attack and the shooting of Constable Derek Patterson was claimed by the "People's Liberation Army" (PLA).[15][16]
21 December - Thomas McCartan (31), a member of the INLA, was shot dead by the Irish People's Liberation Organisation in Andersonstown, Belfast. This was the first killing in an INLA / IPLO feud that was to last until March 1987.[17][18] The IPLO used the alias "INLA Army Council" to claim responsibility for actions carried out during the feud.[19][20]
1987
20 January - Rosnaree Hotel shooting: The IPLO killed two leading members of the INLA (Thomas "Ta" Power & John O'Reilly), they shot them inside a hotel in Drogheda, Co. Louth.[21]
28 January: The IPLO tried to kill INLA member Emmanuel Gargan in the Lower Ormeau, Belfast. He was wounded in another attempt two days later.[22]
18 February - The IPLO shot dead INLA Volunteer Michael Kearney near his home in Ballymurphy, Belfast.[23]
10 March: The IPLO shot and wounded the chairman of the IRSP Kevin McQuillan at his home in Springfield Park, Belfast. His brother was also wounded in the attack.[24]
21 March - The IPLO shot dead a INLA Volunteer Emmanuel Gargan on the Ormeau Road in Belfast.[23][25]
22 March - The IPLO shot dead INLA Volunteer Kevin Duffy. His body was found in the playground of St. Brigid's School, Nursery Road, Armagh. This was the last killing of the IPLO/INLA feud.[23]
19 November - George Seawright an extreme Loyalist activist known for his anti-Catholic views was shot by the IPLO and he died of his wounds on the 3 December 1987.[26]
19 November - The IPLO shot and injured a woodwork instructor in County Armagh. The IPLO claimed the man was a member of the UDR but he had no ties to the security forces..[27][28]
1988
5 January - The IPLO shot and wounded a Catholic man in Armagh.[29]
August - The IPLO carried out an attempted bombing of a home it claimed was used by Loyalist paramilitaries in East Belfast.[30]
9 August - The IPLO sent a 5 lb (2.3 kg) parcel bomb to the home of Unionist politician William McCrea but the bomb was defused.[31][32]
9 August - The IPLO lured a Loyalist to a house on Cliftonville Road, Belfast where an assassination attempt failed when a gun jammed.[33]
11 August - The IPLO mounted two gun attacks against the RUC and British Army in Belfast; attacking a joint patrol in Grosvenor Road and exchanging fire with British soldiers at Divis Flats.[34]
12 August - IPLO members loaded a van with explosives and forced its owner to drive to the law courts, where the bomb exploded. Later a bomb was defused in East Belfast.[35][36]
19 August - A parcel bomb was sent to the home of Unionist MP Ken Maginnis.[35]
7 September - UDA Volunteer William Quee was shot and killed by the IPLO at his shop in Oldpark Road, Belfast.[37]
3 October - The IPLO shot dead Henry McNamee at his girlfriend's home at Lenadoon Avenue, Belfast, afterwards claiming he was an informer. Apparently, the IPLO had instructed McNamee to pose as an informer in 1987 so the IPLO could kill his RUC handler. This planned ambush failed to materialise and McNamee moved to London.[37][38]
1989
16 February - Orange Cross Social Club shooting: The IPLO attacked a Protestant pub on the Shankill Road, Belfast, killing Red Hand Commando (RHC) Volunteer Stephen McRea & injuring several people.[39][40]
22 August - The IPLO claimed responsibility for several incendiary devices planted in business premises in Belfast; one bomb was defused inside a department store in Belfast city centre and two more were found and defused in a large DIY shop in Newtownabbey. A fourth device found at the terminal building of the city's airport caused disruption to flights.[41]
6 November - Catholic civilian Robbert Burns was shot dead by the IPLO near his home in Milltown Avenue, Co. Antrim, mistaken for a security forces member.[39]
10 December - Two IPLO members shot and injured a gendarme in the Belgian port of Antwerp and escaped on foot. They had been intending to smuggle a small consignment of arms aboard a freighter bound for Ireland. Afterwards Dutch police carried out raids on four homes and arrested an Irish citizen in Amsterdam.[42][43]
1990
14 March - The IPLO launched a gun attack on an RUC officer's home in West Belfast. Later on in East Belfast an assassination attempt failed. Nobody was hurt in either attack.[35]
14 March - The IPLO attempted to assassinate a prominent Loyalist at Derrycoole Way, Newtownabbey, on the outskirts of Belfast. After he failed to appear, the IPLO members opened fire on RUC officers and UDR soldiers on Roden Street as they returned to West Belfast.[44]
20 March - William McClure a Protestant civilian was shot dead at his Belfast home by an IPLO hit squad. The IPLO claimed he was a member of the UVF.[45][46]
28 March - The IPLO became a proscribed organization in Northern Ireland.[47]
18 April - An IPLO unit was ambushed by undercover British soldiers as they tried to attack a local RUC man in South Armagh. A gun battle ensued and the commander of the IPLO unit and former Provisional IRA volunteer Martin Corrigan was killed in the gun battle.[48]
20 May - Two IPLO members, one of them armed, forced their way into a home on Faith Avenue in the East Wall area of Dublin. The IPLO claimed the owner, who was absent, had sexually abused children in the area and they had been intending to "punish" him.[49]
15 July - The IPLO shot dead William Sloss a Protestant civilian in his home in Lisburn, Belfast. A caller to the BBC in Belfast claimed the IPLO shot William Sloss because he was a member of the UVF.[45][50] Allegedly, Sloss was a drug dealer who had fallen out with Loyalist paramilitaries, who helped arrange his killing.[51]
1 August - An IPLO unit tried to kill leading Loyalist "Chuck" Berry but failed.[35]
11 September - The IPLO was behind the shooting and injuring of a Protestant civilian on the Shankill Road, Belfast.[35]
1991
1 January - The IPLO shot and wounded an RUC Reserve officer in Dundrod, County Antrim.[52]
20 April - An IPLO Volunteer lost three fingers after a botched hand grenade attack on Bessbrook RUC station.[53]
5 June - An IPLO hit team shot and injured Eddie McIlwaine, a member of the notorious Shankill Butchers, while he was driving a taxi at Lower North Street in Belfast city centre. The IPLO unit chased the taxi and fired several more shots, hitting McIlwaine twice more and slightly injuring a 15-year old-girl.[53][54]
18 July - The IPLO shot dead an off duty member of the Royal Naval Reserve (John McMaster) at his shop in Church Lane, Belfast.[55]
16 August: The UVF shot dead IPLO member Martin "Rook" O'Prey at his home on Ardmoulin Terrace, Belfast. His seven-year-old daughter was injured in the attack.[56][57]
3 September - The IPLO shot and wounded a Protestant civilian from a passing car in North Belfast.[53][58]
13 September - The IPLO wounded a man working at his car repair shop in north Belfast.[59]
7 October - An IPLO unit fired several shots into the Ivy Bar in the Donegall Pass area of Belfast with a submachine gun, injuring 2 people.[60][53][61]
10 October - An IPLO active service unit carried out a gun attack on the Diamond Jubilee Bar on the Shankill Road Belfast, killing a UDA Volunteer Harry Ward & injuring several people. Their target was a well-known Loyalist but he wasn't present.[55][62][53][63]
10 October - The IPLO shot and injured a Protestant civilian at his home in Newry.[55][64]
12 October - The IPLO claimed responsibility for bombing the Derby House bar on Stewartstown Road, west Belfast. Armed men had entered the premises at midday and left a device; the explosion caused severe damage. Afterwards the IPLO warned that pubs that did not prevent drug abuse on their premises would be targeted.[65]
24 October - A Protestant man escaped four IPLO gunmen who had forcibly entered his home off Cavhill Road in North Belfast. He leapt through a window, breaking his arm.[66]
12 December - The IPLO carried out a firebombing attack on a veterinary surgery in Newry claiming it served the British Army. The claim was denied.[53]
15 December - The IPLO shot dead a Catholic civilian Colm Mahon at his workplace on Little Donegal Street, Belfast.[55]
20 December - An IPLO member (Patrick McDonald) was shot dead in his salon at St Aidan's Park Road, Marino, Dublin. Although the IPLO promised retaliation, the perpetrator and motive was unclear.[67]
21 December - The IPLO shot dead two Protestant civilians (Barry Watson and Thomas Gorman) during a gun attack carried out on the Donegall Arms pub in Roden Street, Village, Belfast.[55][68]
1992
17 February - The IPLO shot dead a Protestant civilian at his workplace in Upper Crumlin Road, Belfast.[69]
12 April - The IPLO issued a death threat to Irish soccer player David O'Leary and the Football Association of Ireland declaring him and his family "legitimate target". The IPLO threat alleged O'Leary, then living in England, was a supporter of the Conservative Party. After widespread condemnation the IPLO denied sending the threat although the letter contained a recognised codeword.[70]
5 May - The IPLO shot dead a Protestant civilian during a gun attack on the Mount Inn pup, North Queen Street, Belfast. The IPLO claimed the attack was revenge for the killing of one of their own Volunteers six days earlier by the Ulster Volunteer Force.[69]
June - An armed IPLO unit led by Sammy Ward burst into a pub in Belfast on the Antrim Road and read out a statement which said in part "the IPLO would not take Provo aggression lying down". Several members of the IRA were drinking in the pub at the time. This led to further tension between the IPLO and the IRA.[71]
19 June - The IPLO claimed responsibility for a gun attack on a Protestant man driving along the Upper Crumlin Road, Belfast. His common law wife and daughter were also in the vehicle but there were no reported injuries.[72]
19 July - The IPLO in Dublin issued a threat to "seek out and kill" anyone from the Republic who joined the new British Army Royal Irish Regiment[73]
18 August - Leading IPLO member Jimmy Brown was shot dead by the IPLO Belfast Brigade. This was the start of an internal IPLO feud. Dozens of shootings, robberies, and takeovers of clubs and bars occurred in the following weeks.[69][74]
20 August - The IPLO shot and seriously injured a security guard at his home in Bessbrook, County Armagh.[53] He was targeted because the firm he worked for had been guarding Newry courthouse, damaged in an IRA bomb attack.[75]
25 August - A leading member of the IPLO Belfast Brigade was shot and injured in an ambush by the IPLO Army Council faction in the Springfield Road area of Belfast.[76]
27 August - Hugh McKibben, a member of the IPLO Army Council, was shot dead at the Lámh Dhearg GAA social club on the outskirts of Belfast. His was killed by the IPLO Belfast Brigade during an internal IPLO feud. Two other men were wounded in the attack.[53][69]
11 September - Michael Macklin an IPLO member was shot dead in the Whiterock area of west Belfast. A Dublin-based IPLO faction accused him of being involved in the ‘Belfast Brigade of the IPLO’ a breakaway faction responsible for the killing of both Hugh McKibben and Jimmy Brown.[53]
18 September - A man was shot and injured when gunmen opened fire on his car in the Divis Flats area of Belfast. Related to an internal IPLO feud.[77]
20 September - The IPLO firebombed a pub in Belfast City Centre called "The Waterfront". The pub was firebombed because it failed to pay money to the IPLO through extortion. This was one of the last actions carried out by the paramilitary group during a six-year campaign.[78]
30 September - A former IRA prisoner was shot and wounded when gunmen, believed to IPLO members, fired into the living room of his home in the New Lodge area of Belfast. Related to an internal IPLO feud.[79]
1997
21 April – A group of men claiming to be from the IPLO carried out a robbery on a Credit Union in Newry.[80]
He was killed by the Provisional IRA in its 1992 purge of the IPLO's Belfast Brigade and Army Council facti
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7 July: in Aghagallon, the LVF shot dead Catholic taxi driver Michael McGoldrick (31) while he sat in his car. The gunmen then set the car alight. This was believed to be related to the Drumcree conflict; at the time, the Orange Order was being stopped from marching through the nationalist Garvaghy Road area of Portadown.[33] Members of the group smuggled home-made weaponry to the protests at Drumcree church, apparently unhindered by the Orangemen.[13]
1997
20 January: the LVF was believed to be behind a bomb that exploded under a van owned by a Catholic in Larne.[34]
8 March: the LVF carried out firebomb attacks on Northern Ireland Tourist Board (NITB) offices in Banbridge and Newcastle, County Down. The attacks were believed to be a response to the marketing of the whole of Ireland as a tourist destination by the NITB alongside Bord Fáilte (the tourist board of the Republic of Ireland).[34]
1 April: Mountpottinger Baptist Tabernacle, a Protestant church in East Belfast, was damaged in an arson attack. Although DUP press officer Sammy Wilson blamed Catholics, on 20 April Progressive Unionist Party leader David Ervine asserted it was an LVF attempt to raise sectarian tension.[34]
12 May: the LVF kidnapped Catholic civilian Seán Brown (61) after he left Bellaghy Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) club. He was beaten, shot dead and his body found the next day by a burnt-out car on Moneynick Road near Randalstown.[34]
14 May: the LVF was believed to be responsible for trying to kill a Catholic taxi driver in Milford, County Armagh. He escaped when the gun jammed.[34]
24 May: the LVF claimed responsibility for planting a bomb in Dundalk, County Louth, Republic of Ireland. The time bomb was planted in an alleyway on Clanbrassil Street, the town's main shopping street. However, it only partially exploded and was then defused by Gardaí (the Republic's police). The LVF warned that further "no-warning bomb attacks" would take place "as long as Dublin interferes in Ulster affairs".[34][35]
2 July: the LVF threatened to kill Catholic civilians if an upcoming Orange march was banned from the Garvaghy Road in Portadown.[34]
15 July: the LVF killed Catholic civilian Bernadette Martin (18) in Aghalee. She was shot four times in the head as she slept in her Protestant boyfriend's home.[34]
24 July: the LVF kidnapped Catholic civilian James Morgan (16) in Newcastle, County Down. He was tortured, beaten to death with a hammer, and his body was then doused in petrol and set alight. His burnt and mutilated body was found three days later in a waterlogged ditch used for the disposal of animal carcasses near Clough. Norman Coopey was charged and convicted of the killing.[34][36]
5 August: the LVF claimed responsibility for trying to kill a Catholic taxi driver in Lurgan. He escaped when the gun jammed.[34]
12 August: twenty-seven LVF prisoners in the Maze Prison began a riot which caused severe damage to C and D wings of H-Block 6.[34]
14 August: the LVF was blamed for attacks on the homes of four current and former prison officers in Mid-Ulster.[34]
17 November: the LVF claimed responsibility for planting four small bombs in Dundalk. The Gardaí removed the "suspicious devices" for examination.[34]
5 December: the LVF shot dead Catholic civilian Gerry Devlin (36) outside a GAA club in Glengormley.[34]
27 December: the LVF launched a gun attack on the dance hall of the Catholic-owned Glengannon Hotel near Dungannon. Hundreds of teenagers were attending a disco inside when gunmen fired on a crowd of people at the entrance. A doorman, Catholic civilian Seamus Dillon (45), was killed and three other people were wounded. This was believed to be revenge for the killing of Billy Wright earlier that day.[34] The LVF said: "This attack and future attacks lay squarely at the feet of republicans. For too long the Protestant people have watched their very faith, culture and identity being slowly eroded away".[37]
31 December: the LVF claimed responsibility for a gun attack on the Clifton Tavern on Cliftonville Road, Belfast. Gunmen burst into the pub and sprayed it with gunfire. Catholic civilian Eddie Treanor (31) was killed and five others were wounded. The RUC believed that UDA members were involved.[34]0 -
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Figel Narage wrote: »Must be proud, how'd he get involved with Flashy and all them I wonder if he's not from there. I used to see the papers say he was from Meath back when he was being named but assumed he just lived there but was actually from the Finglas/Cabra area. From pictures it seems like him and Flashy's crew were life long friends.
Does he have family involved in serious crime? Either way he seems like a ruthless guy based on what the newspapers have accused him of.
He used to be in drogheda a bit KMW used to be with his younger brother who’s around 23 or so who also hung around with flashy the past few years. I heard before Caolan uncle was big time and that’s how he got involved i don’t know if true or not, I can’t think who it was if I thought of the name I was told you’d know it0 -
Good riddance to the snakey fu(k see how he gets on doing 15 - 20 on protection from protection0
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Mr.burgess wrote: »He was born and rared in artane just up the road from kilmore
I can tell you first-hand he lived around Duleek with family for at least his teens/early 20s.0 -
Good riddance to the snakey fu(k see how he gets on doing 15 - 20 on protection from protection
Yeah in fairness he sounded fairly ruthless and sneaky based on what he's been accused of. Wouldn't want to get on his bad side, there were people the papers were alleging he shot that I had no idea he was involved in. Crazy Psycho to say the least, I guess growing up as a Dub, Louth, Meath hybrid does that to anyone haha0 -
Should see me through the rest of lockdown.Justanoseygit wrote: »After reading that post, it certainly shortened the winter for me.0 -
Figel Narage wrote: »I know that's standard but very high risk not buying up front in my eyes, granted for dealers there's no alternative I guess, they don't have the money
yeah but if its such a lucrative business why dont street dealers have the money to pay upfront? Surely its pretty smart and not that difficult to always have a pot of 5k or whatever and never go below that. It sounds strange that you have these lads selling maybe 1k or 2k worth of gear every week yet on the next Friday they're looking for tick to get the next batch in for sale.
Anyone know whats their margin? If they were to buy an oz whats it sold for split into 50 bags. Might not be that great if they need tick and are sniffing away themselves.0 -
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yeah but if its such a lucrative business why dont street dealers have the money to pay upfront? Surely its pretty smart and not that difficult to always have a pot of 5k or whatever and never go below that. It sounds strange that you have these lads selling maybe 1k or 2k worth of gear every week yet on the next Friday they're looking for tick to get the next batch in for sale.
Anyone know whats their margin? If they were to buy an oz whats it sold for split into 50 bags. Might not be that great if they need tick and are sniffing away themselves.
Most of these guys are funding there own habits either go on green or snorted.Youd imagine they do small deals like 8balls and qs so your only making 50/100 off them unless you cut it to death.0 -
yeah but if its such a lucrative business why dont street dealers have the money to pay upfront? Surely its pretty smart and not that difficult to always have a pot of 5k or whatever and never go below that. It sounds strange that you have these lads selling maybe 1k or 2k worth of gear every week yet on the next Friday they're looking for tick to get the next batch in for sale.
Anyone know whats their margin? If they were to buy an oz whats it sold for split into 50 bags. Might not be that great if they need tick and are sniffing away themselves.
It probably isnt that lucrative at a street level esp if it's a full time gig.
many factors most street dealers are on the street cos they aren't very good at life. They blow their cash on ****e and probably have substance abuse issues.
My young lad was in school with a lad , the extended family were all dealers wore the best clothes but lived in a kip and ate sh1te food.
there is a book called freakonomics that i read. One of the chapter discusses why drug dealers are broke and better off in mcdonalds albeit from a US point of view but a good read that id' recommend even beyond the drugs issue.
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Mr.burgess wrote: »He was born and rared in artane just up the road from kilmore
Well he must have had some commute because he went to St Mary's DS in Drogheda for secondary, unless he was in Artane before that.0 -
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One of the posters over on the new irish gangland intel page is saying that CS is Eamon Dunne's nephew. Thought I'd mention it as a poster here was saying he had a well know uncle. Could be confusing him with KH who has a well known relative and also knocks about with flashy.
Edit: it was said that CS himself was claiming that he was the dons nephew. Some of the replies said it was true0 -
Small time dealers aren't that smart and the bigger fish aren't regulated so they give you huge amounts.. Customers get it on credit, the dealer gets ripped. Storage costs. Lots of stuff goes "missing" and of course most dealers use drugs and the more you have the more you use and the more debt accumulates which forces you to take more and more to try cover yourself but you just end up in more debt. A lot of drug dealers spend money before they pay there "boss" back so that causes a lot of problems too.yeah but if its such a lucrative business why dont street dealers have the money to pay upfront? Surely its pretty smart and not that difficult to always have a pot of 5k or whatever and never go below that. It sounds strange that you have these lads selling maybe 1k or 2k worth of gear every week yet on the next Friday they're looking for tick to get the next batch in for sale.
Anyone know whats their margin? If they were to buy an oz whats it sold for split into 50 bags. Might not be that great if they need tick and are sniffing away themselves.
There's a huge profit margin for drugs in this country. One of the biggest margins in the world if you get your own source but there's a couple of big fish and under the radar importers who take the majority of the pot while most of the workers are overcharged and left to pick up scraps and hope for the best. As a dealer people think they have to drive this wear that, some succeed most fail one way or another.0 -
glenboylan wrote: »One of the posters over on the new irish gangland intel page is saying that CS is Eamon Dunne's nephew. Thought I'd mention it as a poster here was saying he had a well know uncle. Could be confusing him with KH who has a well known relative and also knocks about with flashy.
Edit: it was said that CS himself was claiming that he was the dons nephew. Some of the replies said it was true
Is that gangland Intel Facebook still going ? Not coming up for me.
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glenboylan wrote: »One of the posters over on the new irish gangland intel page is saying that CS is Eamon Dunne's nephew. Thought I'd mention it as a poster here was saying he had a well know uncle. Could be confusing him with KH who has a well known relative and also knocks about with flashy.
Edit: it was said that CS himself was claiming that he was the dons nephew. Some of the replies said it was true
Interesting if that's the case, I can't find a Smith linked to Eamon Dunne online but I guess it would give some further reasoning as to why he's close to the Finglas/Cabra mob and maybe why he was given responsibility for the Mago attempt. Granted I could be totally wrong and they could've got anyone to try and do it but based on the fact they flew in that Estonian guy and the fact, I think out of anyone, DK would like to see Mago not around anymore I assume they would've got someone they trusted to do it. Regardless, he failed anyway. As he's already been in 2 shooting incidents, Mago is like the non fictional Irish version of Ciro in Gomorrah, i.e. Hard to Kill0 -
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I'm surprised keogher wasn't tasked with the job on mago with CS.
The whistle blower going on yesterday about him and Trevor Byrne going too Liverpool too do a job over there for DK.
Gardener was involved too as the wheels man.
Most of the cabra crew banged up or dead now
He is not wanted here so I'm surprised the went with hyland who legged it after Eddie hutches/Noel Duggan hit.0 -
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Pinoy adventure wrote: »I'm surprised keogher wasn't tasked with the job on mago with CS.
The whistle blower going on yesterday about him and Trevor Byrne going too Liverpool too do a job over there for DK.
Gardener was involved too as the wheels man.
Most of the cabra crew banged up or dead now
He is not wanted here so I'm surprised the went with hyland who legged it after Eddie hutches/Noel Duggan hit.
Hasn't KH been avoiding Ireland since like 2017? Plus wouldn't the gardai want to talk to him? I thought TB was getting charged with something at the moment? Other two lads I'm familiar with but don't know a lot about them.0
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