Irish gangland crisis

FinsburyParkCarrots

What's the deal here? Hells? Anyone?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2091-2508701,00.html

The Sunday Times December 17, 2006

Gangland bail ‘agreed by gardai’
Mark Tighe and Stephen O’Brien

McDowell wrong to blame judges

GARDAI agreed to bail for at least two members of the gang belonging to murdered criminal Martin Hyland in the High Court, The Sunday Times has learnt.

The revelation will come as a real embarrassment to Michael McDowell, the justice minister, who implied last week that judges were to blame for granting bail applications to 23 out of 24 significant “players” in Hyland’s crime operation.

The drug dealer was shot dead last Tuesday in a double murder alongside Anthony Campbell, 20, a plumber and an innocent bystander.

On Friday McDowell said some judges were perceived by serious criminals to be “soft on bail”, and he claimed that accused persons often waited for these judges to appear “on the list” before making a bail application.... (see the link for the rest of the article)

And here's another link:

http://www.irishexaminer.com/irishexaminer/pages/story.aspx-qqqg=ireland-qqqm=ireland-qqqa=ireland-qqqid=21026-qqqx=1.asp

Heineken Helen

sorry, just seeing this now. The gang culture in Dublin has gone completely out of control. It started a couple of weeks ago when Martin Hyland ordered a hit on a Latvian woman, Baiba Saulite, as a favour to her ex husband who owed him money. Apparently the guy who then killed Hyland was the same guy who carried out Baiba's murder for him. They shot the poor plumbers apprentice in case he'd identify them presumably. It's very sad, he was only 20 and just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Heartless fuckers. And then they let them out on bail :eek: It's incomprehensible.