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Protection Rackets.

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  • 03-03-2015 9:50am
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    kneemos
    Registered Users Posts: 20,420 ✭✭✭✭


    Do stores have to pay protection money in Ireland,like in the movies where the two dodgy characters come in and are handed a parcel.


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    cloud493
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    gimme yer wallet or im gonna mess this thread up.


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    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    Extortion? Yeah I'm sure there's been a bit of that back in the 70s/80s. You never really know what's happening now unless you know who's doing it.


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    Little CuChulainn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,624 ✭✭✭Little CuChulainn


    The Real IRA still ran these schemes up until recently.


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    philstar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,986 ✭✭✭philstar


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpm44S1aePw


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    circadian
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    I remember hearing about an attempted protection racket in a border town. It turns out the wannabe protectors needed protecting pretty quickly since the shop owner was a complete headcase and took no crap.


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    The Backwards Man
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    They call it commercial rates here.


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    The Moldy Gowl
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    Some man for the threads


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    Shiraz 4.99
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    With dwindling retail revenue & all the closures during the recession must have it the extortion business hard.
    That & the inability to extort an online company, young Jimmy with his ebay garage business selling Chinese micro usb mains chargers didn't suit their business model.


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    kneemos
    Registered Users Posts: 20,420 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Gowlasauras Rex wrote: »
    Some man for the threads

    Three in six years.


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    The Moldy Gowl
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    kneemos wrote: »
    Three in six years.

    Who? Me?

    You're not looking in the right places for my threads


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    Turtyturd
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    circadian wrote: »
    I remember hearing about an attempted protection racket in a border town. It turns out the wannabe protectors needed protecting pretty quickly since the shop owner was a complete headcase and took no crap.

    Know of a similar story with a pub round here where wannabe protectors came in to collect their money only for the doors to be locked behind them and a gang of lads to beat the sh*t out of them.


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    KomradeBishop
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    No need for extortion rackets when people can just be threatened or otherwise coerced into selling a building, where it can then be rented out at extortionate rates.

    Far less risky (one time threat, one time risk of being caught, vs ongoing constant risk of being caught), far more lucrative (just keep jacking up rents and promoting property bubbles to justify this), far less hassle (you own the building, no 'racket' that needs enforcing).

    Perfectly suited to IRA/ex-IRA types and criminals not averse to violence, looking for a way to launder money - plus developers and other wealthy high-and-mighties with such criminal business partners, probably with political connections too; I'd not be surprised if a fair portion of Dublin city is under ownership originating in ways similar to this.


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    BeerWolf
    Registered Users Posts: 4,122 ✭✭✭BeerWolf


    You mean this OP:

    LINK

    ?


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    seamus
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    Yes they do

    Though typically they only exist where the business themselves has otherwise come to the attention of those carrying out the protection racket, and they don't want any Garda attention. Your local Centra doesn't have the RIRA demanding money because they'd be straight down to the Gardai to make a complaint.


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    Xenji
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    It used to be commonplace in Galway with the Triads.


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    rubadub
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    Turtyturd wrote: »
    Know of a similar story with a pub round here where wannabe protectors came in to collect their money only for the doors to be locked behind them and a gang of lads to beat the sh*t out of them.
    I heard similar about some pub in dublin city, the barman calmly told them to come back at a particular time when the boss would be there. They supposedly were crawling out of the place after been beaten senseless. Pub was owned by one of those infamous nicknamed Irish gangsters.


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    Timberrrrrrrr
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    rubadub wrote: »
    I heard similar about some pub in dublin city, the barman calmly told them to come back at a particular time when the boss would be there. They supposedly were crawling out of the place after been beaten senseless. Pub was owned by one of those infamous nicknamed Irish gangsters.

    T'was the blue lion on Parnell st i think :D


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    LDN_Irish
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    Apparently the UVF are big in to it in East Belfast.

    www. belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/businesses-flee-uvf-extortion-in-east-belfast-reveals-mp-long-31032332.html

    Remove the space for the link to work.


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    AnonoBoy
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    This is the only racket protection I need.


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    AnonoBoy
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    LDN_Irish wrote: »
    Remove the space for the link to work.

    Why did you add that space in? :confused:

    Surely just posting the link would save people time.


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    eamonnq
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    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    Why did you add that space in? :confused:

    Surely just posting the link would save people time.

    Noobs can't post links


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    AnonoBoy
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    eamonnq wrote: »
    Noobs can't post links

    Ah right. I didn't see that he was new.


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    padd b1975
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    Standard Provo fund-raising device back in the day.

    A donation towards Gerry's holiday home "the cause":rolleyes::rolleyes:


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    mad muffin
    Registered Users Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    Yeah it's called taxes. How else do,you think Enda and his bïtches get over €3,000 a week?


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