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Gangland's dirty dozen Part 2

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6) CAGED LIEUTENANT

ONE of the cartel’s most trusted and high-profile criminals has also been taken off the streets since the feud began after being charged with serious offences.

The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, once headed up a criminal gang involved in another bloody feud which claimed more than a dozen lives a number of years ago.

He was released from prison in 2015 after serving a sentence for a violent offence, but was warned by Gardaí there was a threat to his life.

He had been back and forth between Ireland and Europe suspected of organising drug operations before the Regency attack.

He had to contend with another issue when a young relative of his was involved in killing a young man in Dublin. He travelled abroad with the relative but both later returned to Ireland. Following the Regency attack the gangster spent most of his time in Ireland.

Days after the Regency he was arrested by gardai following a high-speed chase through Dublin, released without charge.

He was later arrested in connection with a feudrelated murder and has been in custody awaiting trial ever since.

5) GARY FINNEGAN

 

FINNEGAN is from Hardwicke Street Flats in the north inner city, like his pal Ross Browning, and was once considered one of the cartel’s key men in the Dublin.

He was convicted over the same cash-in-transit robbery as Browning back in 2001 and like Browning received a suspended sentence.

He was also arrested as part of Operation Shovel and was subsequently arrested in connection with the murder of Eamonn ‘the Don’ Dunne, who was believed to have been shot on the orders of the cartel in 2010.

Finnegan had been pals with Gary Hutch and James ‘Mago’ Gately before the feud which ripped the cartel apart.

He left Ireland after the Regency attack and is understood to spend most of his time in Holland.

4) ROSS BROWNING

 

GYM owner Browning (34), has been working with the cartel for years.

By the age of 18 he had been convicted for his part in an armed robbery on a cash-in-transit van.

His co-accused were Gary Hutch and Gary Finnegan.

Browning was based between Ireland and Spain and was one of a number of people arrested in 2010 by Spanish police as part of Operation Shovel targeted the gang.

He was questioned for a number of days before being released. Last year, Browning was before the courts on a fake passport charge in Ireland but a judge decided there was not enough evidence to convict him.

Browning is a fitness fanatic and has set himself up as a healthy living guru.

He said he was inspired to change his ways after someone he had hurt in his past forgave him.

He has gone to ground in recent times and is trying to distance himself from the feud.

 

3) ‘MARLO’ ASSOCIATE

THE 31-year-old career criminal is the chief suspect in at least two feud murders and was one of the cartel’s most reliable hitmen.

However, the Dublin man has been forced to flee abroad due to mounting pressure from the Gardaí and the Hutch gang.

He is also wanted in relation to outstanding warrants here, and cannot be named for legal reasons.

Gardai suspect he had involvement in the murder of Darren Kearns (33), who was shot dead outside Cummiskeys pub in Cabra on December 31, 2015.

 It emerged that the cartel suspected Kearns was involved in a botched hit at a west Dublin hotel the previous month.

The young hitman is also a chief suspect in the murder of the Monk’s brother, Eddie Hutch (59). He was arrested and questioned, but released without charge.

He has been a long-term target of national Garda units and was a close associate of murdered gang boss Martin ‘Marlo’ Hyland.

The thug has also served a lengthy jail sentence in relation to an anti-gangland operation after being arrested by elite members of the Emergency Response Unit (ERU).

He made his name as a capable getaway driver for several organised crime gangs, including the faction once led by slain mobster Eamon ‘The Don’ Dunne.

Following this man’s arrest in relation to the murder of Eddie Hutch, he fled the country and joined a number of his close associates in the U.K.

2) RICHARD O’REILLY

O’REILLY (32), is currently serving a six-year jail term after being caught by Gardaí with a loaded firearm planning a revenge attack linked to the feud.

The Crumlin man, who prior to his arrest had few criminal convictions, was a childhood friend of murdered David Byrne.

O’Reilly has close ties with several of the cartel mobsters from Dublin, and went into a downward spiral after the murder of Byrne, his court case heard.

Earlier this year O’Reilly pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm in suspicious circumstances at Walkinstown Avenue, Walkinstown on June 18, 2016.

Gardai suspect that O’Reilly was planning to carry out a hit on a Hutch gang member.

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