Criminal who fired machine gun on streets of Ballymun

TiGeR KiNgS

I never heard of this incident but well done to three unarmed Gardai. A decent sentence too from the judge.

'A criminal has been jailed for 15 years for firing a sub-machine gun on the streets of Ballymun in Dublin last year .... arrested by three unarmed gardaí, one of whom narrowly missed being shot in the head during the struggle to detain him

.... also had a hand grenade. Officers only realised the pin had been removed after Devoy had been restrained.'


https://www.rte.ie/news/2020/0724/1155340-devoy-fired-machine-gun-on-dublin-streets-jailed/

ILoveYourVibes

Nutjob....

Dtp1979

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

Nutjob....

Ah you’re not that bad

ILoveYourVibes

Dtp1979 wrote: »

Ah you’re not that bad

You are.

Strumms

Fûck, that’s some arsehole . No doubt you’ll have the ‘mintal hilth’ brigade along wondering why he wasn’t given a free lifetimes supply of angels delight, somebody to call him up to tell him how great he is and allowed to take his neighbors budgie for a walk...

Zebra3

Strumms wrote: »

Fûck, that’s some arsehole . No doubt you’ll have the ‘mintal hilth’ brigade along wondering why he wasn’t given a free lifetimes supply of angels delight, somebody to call him up to tell him how great he is and allowed to take his neighbors budgie for a walk...

I seriously doubt that.

Strumms

Strumms wrote: »

Fûck, that’s some arsehole . No doubt you’ll have the ‘mintal hilth’ brigade along

No, i bet you won't.

Wanderer78

Strumms wrote:

Fûck, that’s some arsehole . No doubt you’ll have the ‘mintal hilth’ brigade along wondering why he wasn’t given a free lifetimes supply of angels delight, somebody to call him up to tell him how great he is and allowed to take his neighbors budgie for a walk...

I think he should get cornettos, delights are rank

Strumms

Wanderer78 wrote: »

I think he should get cornettos, delights are rank

I was going to say a magnum but he might have already have one.

SEPT 23 1989

Bottlers Lives Matter

SeaFields

That took balls by the Gardai and id say they'd a very stiff drink afterwards owing to the grenade pin!

Strumms

SeaFields wrote: »

That took balls by the Gardai and id say they'd a very stiff drunk afterwards owing to the grenade pin!

You’d have some feeling in your head after securing the gun then looking and seeing a fûcking grenade minus a pin.

Lucy8080

Some balls alright,fair play. I'd say they had three Adam's Apples when they copped the grenade.

antimatterx

Can we not put these people down instead.

punisher5112

Good result really as usually he would get suspended or a couple of years

Thesiger

Some background on this guy - https://www.google.ie/amp/s/www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/who-are-devoy-family-at-centre-of-feuding-in-dublin-s-ballymun-1.3190013%3fmode=amp

punisher5112

Thesiger wrote: »

Some background on this guy - https://www.google.ie/amp/s/www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/who-are-devoy-family-at-centre-of-feuding-in-dublin-s-ballymun-1.3190013%3fmode=amp

Unfortunately not a wake up call to other family members or girlfriends or wife's of these scum bags... They're more then delighted to be living the high life....

Always find this mentality funny as they will scream blue murder if anything happens theirkidsbut guns and drugs to others they're fine with that....

JohnDough

Another one bites the dust

JohnnyFlash

The Gardaí really seem to have upped their game when it comes to organised crime since Drew Harris got the top job. He's doing a great job so far.

JohnDough

You have to keep fighting crime at the street level

The alternative is Dublin turns into Baltimore

Feisar

JohnDough wrote: »

You have to keep fighting crime at the street level

The alternative is Dublin turns into Baltimore

That's not fighting crime though, it's fondling it. The cnut is still breathing and worse, costing us money.

We have the ARW, we know who these people are, can someone explain why they are still breathing.

nthclare

Strumms wrote: »

Fûck, that’s some arsehole . No doubt you’ll have the ‘mintal hilth’ brigade along wondering why he wasn’t given a free lifetimes supply of angels delight, somebody to call him up to tell him how great he is and allowed to take his neighbors budgie for a walk...

love it

Feisar

JohnDough wrote: »

Hasn't worked for the US or Mexico

Smaller problem here at the moment. If they started Necklacing lads it'd change things sharpish. I also believe in eliminating demand. Random tests across the population and severe corporal punishment.

Only if you want to solve the issue, anything else is pandering.

corner of hells

Feisar wrote: »

I still can't get my head around them taking him on given the collusion with Unionist paramilitaries.

Let's not take anything away from the brass balls of those three Gardai by bringing the North into it.

Feisar

corner of hells wrote: »

Let's not take anything away from the brass balls of those three Gardai by bringing the North into it.

Sorry, yer dead right, comment deleted

JohnDough

corner of hells wrote: »

Let's not take anything away from the brass balls of those three Gardai by bringing the North into it.

I'd say he's a reasonable person

When someone in your family is murdered it's thought-provoking ime

Kamu

Both newspaper articles linked give his age as 37, though the articles are written 3 years apart.

15 years will go in the blink of an eye to a man who already spent 10 years in jail and who doesn't age.

splinter65

Imagine marching up to the Devoys front door to have a row with them over leaving their bins outside your gaff. You’d want to be as mad as a bag of monkeys. Seriously now.

Geuze

Strumms wrote: »

I was going to say a magnum but he might have already have one.

I have to say, some people are very witty.

Liamo57

Id have killed the bastard and pretended he aimed at me first.

McCrack

Whatever about him but his sister getting whacked is nasty

begbysback

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

The Gardaí really seem to have upped their game when it comes to organised crime since Drew Harris got the top job. He's doing a great job so far.

It’s hardly police mastermind category, the dude was in the middle of a street letting off some lead.

Kamu

McCrack wrote: »

Whatever about him but his sister getting whacked is nasty

Goes to show there is no morality or empathy in the gang trade. If you get caught in the cross-hairs that's on you. Whoever is doing the hit doesn't care.

Edgware

begbysback wrote: »

It’s hardly police mastermind category, the dude was in the middle of a street letting off some lead.

What would you have done once you changed your trousers?

corner of hells

McCrack wrote: »

Whatever about him but his sister getting whacked is nasty

What happened to his sister was terrible, but CAB had turned their beady eye on her over money laundering.

Muahahaha

Kamu wrote: »

Both newspaper articles linked give his age as 37, though the articles are written 3 years apart.

15 years will go in the blink of an eye to a man who already spent 10 years in jail and who doesn't age.

I think he got off lightly with this sentence of 15 years, out in 10. He already had previous for weapons offenses so this wasnt his first rodeo. He fired five shots at Gardai with one just missing the Gardas head by inches. Thats attempted murder in my book and he should be in prison for a lot longer than 10 years given he has already been done for guns before. He had his chance to reform, he didnt take it so the book should be thrown at him for committing the same offenses and endangering the life of three Gardai. Theres no reforming someone like that so its best to get them locked up until at least their mid 60s.

walshb

TiGeR KiNgS wrote: »

I never heard of this incident but well done to three unarmed Gardai. A decent sentence too from the judge.

'A criminal has been jailed for 15 years for firing a sub-machine gun on the streets of Ballymun in Dublin last year .... arrested by three unarmed gardaí, one of whom narrowly missed being shot in the head during the struggle to detain him

.... also had a hand grenade. Officers only realised the pin had been removed after Devoy had been restrained.'


https://www.rte.ie/news/2020/0724/1155340-devoy-fired-machine-gun-on-dublin-streets-jailed/

Decent sentence?

15 years? Be out in what, 11-12 years? Before turns 50

Life of serious serious crime, and got this very serious crime he will be out in 11-12 years..

Our sentencing is disgusting for serious criminals. This man should be locked up for life...

Read up on his career...the disgusting thing is not only this crime, but this country’s allowing a man like this to be fee amongst society to be able to continually carry out serious crimes.

dd973

Sadly it's part of the culture and the psyche in Ireland and the U.K to look up to these types of people as 'hard' or 'important/powerful', in places like Switzerland, Finland or Norway they'd be pretty much regarded as anti-social village idiots, the types of societies they have there also produce far less of them.

Atlantic Dawn

The gun he used is like something you would present to the Antiques Roadshow on a Sunday afternoon, last produced in 1977.

jmreire

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

The gun he used is like something you would present to the Antiques Roadshow on a Sunday afternoon, last produced in 1977.

Don't be fooled by appearances..it will kill you every bit as quick as a brand new one....and depending on how far away from it you are, whoever happens to be standing behind you as well !!! :cool: It is a lethal weapon, the Guards were very lucky,,,and with the grenade, and the pin out, God was looking after them.

Hotblack Desiato

Funny how some are saying it's a stiff sentence, it's actually very lenient given what he did do and what he tried to do. Blow himself up and take several Gardai with him.

This guy should never walk free again. Simple as that.

I feel sorry for the family who had their home blown up because of this scumbag. Imagine how terrified you'd be if some guy with a gun charges into your house?

Muahahaha

jmreire wrote: »

Don't be fooled by appearances..it will kill you every bit as quick as a brand new one....and depending on how far away from it you are, whoever happens to be standing behind you as well !!! :cool: It is a lethal weapon, the Guards were very lucky,,,and with the grenade, and the pin out, God was looking after them.

Definitely this, the Gardai said the gun was capable of firing 600 rounds per minute, thats 10 bullets per second.

We need to get to a stage where even possessing an illegal gun is a mandatory 10 years and then whatever sentence for what they did or attempted to do with it goes on top of that. If someone has an illegally held weapon ultimately their intention is to kill someone

Edgware

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

The gun he used is like something you would present to the Antiques Roadshow on a Sunday afternoon, last produced in 1977.

Will you stand in front of it while someone pulls the trigger
I thought so. Sudden filling of your underpants.

McCrack

Muahahaha wrote: »

Definitely this, the Gardai said the gun was capable of firing 600 rounds per minute, thats 10 bullets per second.

We need to get to a stage where even possessing an illegal gun is a mandatory 10 years and then whatever sentence for what they did or attempted to do with it goes on top of that. If someone has an illegally held weapon ultimately their intention is to kill someone

Mandatory sentences are not the way. There isn't one size fits all. I agree there should be stiff sentences for firearms but not every situation or offender are the same.

That's why s15 misuse drugs is presumptive mandatory 10 years.. The law recognises not everything is equal

McCrack

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

Funny how some are saying it's a stiff sentence, it's actually very lenient given what he did do and what he tried to do. Blow himself up and take several Gardai with him.

This guy should never walk free again. Simple as that.

I feel sorry for the family who had their home blown up because of this scumbag. Imagine how terrified you'd be if some guy with a gun charges into your house?

17 years with 2 suspended is about as severe as a court can give in fairness