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Gangland Shootings [Mod Note in Post #1]

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  • #5642
    Rows Grower
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,576 ✭✭✭Rows Grower


    A grenade and a machine gun recovered, lovely state of affairs in Ballymun.

    https://www.thesun.ie/news/3853269/man-arrested-firearms-offences-ballymun-gardai/#

    "Very soon we are going to Mars. You wouldn't have been going to Mars if my opponent won, that I can tell you. You wouldn't even be thinking about it."

    Donald Trump, March 13th 2018.



  • #5643
    ASOT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,764 ✭✭✭ASOT


    He was outside Eddie mcgeligets house


  • #5644
    The Enbalmer
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,001 ✭✭✭The Enbalmer


    Did it all actually start over bins?


  • #5645
    Muahahaha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,768 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    Rows Grower wrote: »
    Was he the chap that had his own private airport that had no customs officers stationed there?

    Not only that there was heroin found on a private jet which was leased to Jim Mansfield himself. I think it is obvious what was going on there and palms must have been greased. As for political connections Fianna Fail always held their Ard Fheis in the Citywest Hotel back in the boom. Jim Mansfield and Liam Lawlor were close. Also Jim Mansfield son was arrested a while back for having 4,000 rounds of ammunition, not sure whatever came of it but he said he needs it for his own protection.


  • #5646
    Rows Grower
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,576 ✭✭✭Rows Grower


    Muahahaha wrote: »
    Not only that there was heroin found on a private jet which was leased to Jim Mansfield himself. I think it is obvious what was going on there and palms must have been greased. As for political connections Fianna Fail always held their Ard Fheis in the Citywest Hotel back in the boom. Jim Mansfield and Liam Lawlor were close. Also Jim Mansfield son was arrested a while back for having 4,000 rounds of ammunition, not sure whatever came of it but he said he needs it for his own protection.

    I'd love to know who had responsibility/the final say in whether that man should be allowed have his own private airport with no customs officials to be stationed there.

    There seems to be rules and regulations for everything in this country of ours, people need a licence for a dog or a TV. If you want to volunteer to work in youth organisations you need separate Garda vetting for each one.

    You can't work on a building site without a safe pass yet this fella was somehow allowed open an airport with no customs checking what was coming in from abroad.

    "Very soon we are going to Mars. You wouldn't have been going to Mars if my opponent won, that I can tell you. You wouldn't even be thinking about it."

    Donald Trump, March 13th 2018.



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  • #5647
    Strawberry1975
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 70 ✭✭Strawberry1975


    recedite wrote: »
    Ah yes, Mosney. I was there as a kid, when the Community Games Finals used to held there (I was a fair sprinter back in the day). Nice chalets, swimming pool etc..
    But then one day, somebody realised there was more money to be made by running the place as a DP centre. Just like the numerous hotels in small towns have done in more recent times. The only tourist hotel in Wicklow town, the only hotel in Roosky, the only hotel in Moville... etc. etc.)


    Of course, back then nobody thought to burn Mosney down, otherwise a lot of the current and future problems could have been averted.


    So now we have this line of anarchy roughly corresponding with the railway between Dublin and Mosney, which includes Balbriggan and Drogheda, and of course the numerous robberies and phone snatchings around Clontarf by "people from outside the area".
    In another 100 years time their descendants will probably erect an interpretive centre at Mosney, as the place where the first colony was founded.
    Like the first landing of the Mayflower.
    This Statement is Borderline Racism Wayne.


  • #5648
    not yet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,008 ✭✭✭not yet


    Strawberry1975 wrote: »
    This Statement is Borderline Racism Wayne.

    Tis, I insist he either takes it back or take is scrawny white ars.e elsewhere.


  • #5649
    r93kaey5p2izun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,962 ✭✭✭r93kaey5p2izun


    Well the airport long pre-dates Mansfield tbf. He only bought it in 2002 and it's open since the 30s.


  • #5650
    Rows Grower
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,576 ✭✭✭Rows Grower


    Major Great Cellist wrote: »
    Well the airport long pre-dates Mansfield tbf. He only bought it in 2002 and it's open since the 30s.

    Was totally unaware of that, I thought he opened the airport.

    Who is in charge of airports i wonder, as in who decides someone is fit to own one?

    Surely be to God there must be some paper trail that goes back to the person who was the ultimate decision maker in allowing some private individual purchase an airport and be responsible for policing it themselves.

    "Very soon we are going to Mars. You wouldn't have been going to Mars if my opponent won, that I can tell you. You wouldn't even be thinking about it."

    Donald Trump, March 13th 2018.



  • #5651
    The Enbalmer
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,001 ✭✭✭The Enbalmer


    Where are you getting the idea there were no customs there?


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  • #5652
    Dante7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,543 ✭✭✭Dante7


    The Enbalmer wrote: »
    Where are you getting the idea there were no customs there?

    https://www.rte.ie/news/2006/0927/80783-drugs/


  • #5653
    Rows Grower
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,576 ✭✭✭Rows Grower


    The Enbalmer wrote: »
    Where are you getting the idea there were no customs there?

    Read the previous page as well as this one.

    "Very soon we are going to Mars. You wouldn't have been going to Mars if my opponent won, that I can tell you. You wouldn't even be thinking about it."

    Donald Trump, March 13th 2018.



  • #5654
    bigpink
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭bigpink


    Who is Mr Flashy?Why he not named in the media like other criminals


  • #5655
    Muahahaha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,768 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    The Enbalmer wrote: »
    Where are you getting the idea there were no customs there?

    Weston Airport never had a permanent customs station. Customs could show up to do searches but they rarely did. It was the perfect spot to engage in international drug imports, a legitimte airport with no customs presense. When Mansfields plane was caught with heroin onboard the flight had come from Belgium and the value of the drugs was put at €50m. That was in 2006, he had already owned the airport for six years by the time there was a drugs bust.

    As for how Mansfield got the airport well he made his fortune as a scrap metal dealer in the Falkland Islands after the 1982 war. The British Army had thousands of pieces of machinery left over and he bought them for a pittance before exporting for profit. After that he bought up large swathes of land around Lucan & Citywest before building his hotel of the same name.


  • #5656
    Dante7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,543 ✭✭✭Dante7


    Muahahaha wrote: »
    Weston Airport never had a permanent customs station. Customs could show up to do searches but they rarely did. It was the perfect spot to engage in international drug imports, a legitimte airport with no customs presense. When Mansfields plane was caught with heroin onboard the flight had come from Belgium and the value of the drugs was put at €50m. That was in 2006, he had already owned the airport for six years by the time there was a drugs bust.

    As for how Mansfield got the airport well he made his fortune as a scrap metal dealer in the Falkland Islands after the 1982 war. The British Army had thousands of pieces of machinery left over and he bought them for a pittance before exporting for profit. After that he bought up large swathes of land around Lucan & Citywest before building his hotel of the same name.

    The heroin was discovered on the plane in Belgium. I don't think there was ever a seizure in Weston.


  • #5657
    pablo128
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭pablo128


    I worked on the Northside back in 2001/2002 and the job involved working on Garda cars now and again. Cops would wait for the car most of the time and you would get yapping to them.

    I remember a middle aged detective one day and somehow Jim Mansfields name came up. I genuinely didn't know who he was at the time but the dick face darkened and he said something along the lines of he'd shoot him in the head if he had half a chance. I remember being a bit shocked at the time.

    He was obviously well known even then.


  • #5658
    politics.irish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2 ✭politics.irish


    anyone ever hear of the Rolls Royce Phantom pulling up and an UZI been fired out the window at a travellers site (Allegedly)
    or the Old Woman who had everything signed over on her death bed (Allegedly)


  • #5659
    Clytus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 471 ✭✭Clytus


    Muahahaha wrote: »
    Not only that there was heroin found on a private jet which was leased to Jim Mansfield himself. I think it is obvious what was going on there and palms must have been greased. As for political connections Fianna Fail always held their Ard Fheis in the Citywest Hotel back in the boom. Jim Mansfield and Liam Lawlor were close. Also Jim Mansfield son was arrested a while back for having 4,000 rounds of ammunition, not sure whatever came of it but he said he needs it for his own protection.

    Some of Mansfield's friends leave a lot to be desired!

    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/pictured-businessman-mansfield-and-the-feared-gangland-criminal-31453341.html

    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/gangster-suspected-of-shooting-gareth-hutch-hiding-out-in-turkey-37212751.html


  • #5660
    Muahahaha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,768 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    A Garda commissioner had his daughters wedding at Citywest

    Cough

    Which Garda Commissioner was this? The same one involved in a property deal in Ashbourne with a well know criminal?
    Dante7 wrote: »
    The heroin was discovered on the plane in Belgium. I don't think there was ever a seizure in Weston.

    At least the Belgian customs were on the ball, our own lot clearly were not.


  • #5661
    imme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,200 ✭✭✭imme


    Strawberry1975 wrote: »
    This Statement is Borderline Racism Wayne.

    Are you standing on the border?

    Parts of the post are racist, parts presaging a future where descendents of the people who were housed in the likes of mosney will seek to understand where they came from.

    Their ancestors will have come to Ireland in search of a better life, a safer life in some cases, a first world life.

    When people started to come to Ireland to claim asylum in numbers, early to mid 1990's they also came to other European countries.

    So you see the same pattern in places as far as Finland at the same time.

    All the while persecution is being used as a reason. Persecuted people would generally find it difficult to travel. Persecuted people are in prison or are monitored.

    We have in a great many cases been had.

    Will that be worthy as marking it with a statue, I think not.


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  • #5662
    40supple
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 345 ✭✭40supple


    Clytus wrote: »
    Some of Mansfield's friends leave a lot to be desired!

    Who would deal with someone who turns up to a gangland meeting in a swanky hotel in adidas tracksuit & trainers?


  • #5663
    Dante7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,543 ✭✭✭Dante7


    Clytus wrote: »
    Some of Mansfield's friends leave a lot to be desired!

    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/pictured-businessman-mansfield-and-the-feared-gangland-criminal-31453341.html

    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/gangster-suspected-of-shooting-gareth-hutch-hiding-out-in-turkey-37212751.html

    That's Jimmy Jr. He was previously involved Katy French.


  • #5664
    Dante7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,543 ✭✭✭Dante7


    Muahahaha wrote: »
    Which Garda Commissioner was this? The same one involved in a property deal in Ashbourne with a well know criminal?

    Have a look at the names here for a bit of a who's who.

    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/bertie-tucksin-with-digout-pals-26335877.html


  • #5665
    GinAndBitter
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 746 ✭✭✭GinAndBitter


    https://twitter.com/Breakingservice/status/1105198180306731009?s=19

    He's a mad cùnt.


  • #5666
    Jeff2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,513 ✭✭✭Jeff2


    Dante7 wrote: »
    Have a look at the names here for a bit of a who's who.

    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/bertie-tucksin-with-digout-pals-26335877.html

    Link should work now.


  • #5667
    Clytus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 471 ✭✭Clytus


    40supple wrote: »
    Clytus wrote: »
    Some of Mansfield's friends leave a lot to be desired!

    Who would deal with someone who turns up to a gangland meeting in a swanky hotel in adidas tracksuit & trainers?

    The same type of person who is also known as "Mr AB" in a recent murder trial involving a brother and sister!


  • #5668
    ASOT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,764 ✭✭✭ASOT


    GinAndBitter wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/Breakingservice/status/1105198180306731009?s=19

    He's a mad cùnt.

    I'd say Eddie was ****ting himself. Surprised bottler didn't stick a few shots through the house.


  • #5669
    Dante7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,543 ✭✭✭Dante7


    ASOT wrote: »
    I'd say Eddie was ****ting himself. Surprised bottler didn't stick a few shots through the house.

    It must have been the grey bin out last night.


  • #5670
    donkeykong5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,259 ✭✭✭donkeykong5


    Jeff2 wrote: »
    Dante7 wrote: »
    Have a look at the names here for a bit of a who's who.

    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/bertie-tucksin-with-digout-pals-26335877.html

    Link should work now.
    What's Joe burke up to these days ?


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  • #5671
    Jeff2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,513 ✭✭✭Jeff2


    donkeykong5 wrote: »
    What's Joe burke up to these days ?

    If it's who I think it is he would be at well over 70yo now, so not much.


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