The best thing about the “rest in peace, ya fuckin’ legend” tribute was she prefaced it with an apology for the language that was about to follow.
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I think I’ll get O’Dwyer & Sons for my own funeral, when my time comes. Plenty of 5* recommendations on Facebook. One lady says they are very “conciderit”.
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Instead of a torch and a screwdriver you’ll be wanting a Microsoft Office CD and hole punch.
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Yep and not even wear socks. The undertaker on Joe Duffy was slating him yesterday. So much for undertakers being low key at funerals.
Is joe back from his holiers?
Yep. He was getting slated yesterday for giving Deano’s aunt half the show to spout her nonsense and then he was banging on about when he was parole officer.
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He is yeah. I saw him coming back from his swim at the Bull Wall yesterday morning.
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Made the New York Post
Ala Paul Gogarty ex TD
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Burn, Baby, Burn.
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I think its high time the Irish state reintroduced the method they used to deal with Martin Cahill. Outsource these problems to a covert agency. It worked a treat with Cahill in fairness.
The boom is back baby
“Partially muted due to copyright claim” 
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If they were breaking the law and potentially putting people in danger the gardai have an obligation to stop them there and then.
Not doing so adds to the perception that they live above the law
Crime boss who arranged murder attempt on James Gately got orders from others, court told
The Special Criminal Court in Dublin heard that gang boss Peter Keating used tracking devices to find his target
Eoin Reynolds
Tuesday July 27 2021, 12.01am BST, The Times
A man who pleaded guilty to directing the activities of the Kinahan crime cartel in its failed attempt to murder a member of the Hutch gang was himself receiving directions from others, the Special Criminal Court heard.
Detective Sergeant David Carolan told Peter Keating’s sentence hearing yesterday that James “Mago” Gately was “one of a number” of Hutch gang members targeted by the “rival gang known as the Kinahan crime organisation” following the Regency Hotel attack in which Kinahan gang member David Byrne was shot dead.
The detective said an Estonian man named Imre Arakas was brought to Ireland on April 3, 2017, to target Gately. Over the previous days Keating was involved in an operation to locate Gately’s Belfast home and track his movements using devices planted on Gately’s car and on cars belonging to members of his family.
Mr Justice Tony Hunt, presiding in the three-judge court, adjourned sentencing until September 2.
Arakas, 62, was jailed for six years in December 2018, having pleaded guilty to conspiring with others to murder Gately in Northern Ireland between April 3 and April 4, 2017. Arakas was arrested before the attack on Gately could be carried out. Gately was later the victim of another attempted murder in May 2017.
Caolan Smyt, 30, of Cuileann Court, Donore, Co Meath, was sentenced to 20 years last February for attempted murder in relation to that attempt. Gately, the court heard, wore a bullet proof vest and survived the attack despite being shot five times.
Keating, 40, of Rowlagh Green, Clondalkin, Dublin 22, pleaded guilty last month at the Special Criminal Court to directing the activities of a criminal organisation between December 7, 2016, and April 4, 2017, inclusive, within and without the State under Section 71 of the Criminal Justice Act.
Det Sgt Carolan yesterday told Dominic McGinn SC, for the prosecution, that Arakas’s arrival into Dublin Airport in 2017 was noted by gardai who then watched as he walked around areas of Dublin 1 that are associated with the Hutch organisation. Arakas was seen buying a wig and other items before being collected by a man in a white Mercedes.
Gardai arrested Arakas the following morning at Blakestown Cottages and from information on his Blackberry mobile phone, the detective said it became clear that Arakas had been brought to Ireland to target James Gately, who he said was connected to the Hutch organisation. The phone contained images of Gately and text exchanges telling Arakas what to type into Google to find photos of Gately. There was also information pinpointing Gately’s Belfast home.
Gardai contacted the Police Service of Northern Ireland who told Gately about the potential, imminent threat to his life. PSNI officers discovered a tracker device on Gately’s car and harvested CCTV footage which gardai used to identify Keating and others in the vicinity of Gately’s apartment complex on March 28 and 30, six and four days before Arakas’s arrival in Ireland.
Gardai then pieced together Keating’s movements on those days and found that on March 28 he travelled to a Dublin Airport short term car park to pick up a blue Peugeot that had been brought to Ireland from Holyhead earlier that day. Keating left his own Volkswagen Caddy in the airport car park and drove to Dundalk, Co Louth where he bought a satnav device. When gardai later seized the device they used it to track Keating’s movements.
They found that Keating travelled to Belfast and to College Court, where Gately lived. CCTV at the apartment complex confirmed that Keating had been there, checking the location of CCTV cameras before getting back into the Peugeot.
On March 30 Keating again drove the Peugeot to Belfast, this time with two other men. One of the men went into the car park of Gately’s apartment complex at about 11:13am and attached a tracker to the target’s Toyota Avensis. When Gately travelled to Dublin from Belfast later that day Keating was ten minutes behind him on the same road, the detective said.
There was further evidence, the garda said, that following the arrest of Arakas. Keating directed one of his co-accused to clean the Peugeot “from top to bottom to ensure all prints are gone off it”. The detective also pointed to Keating arranging to leave Ireland by ferry after finding out one of his co-accused was arrested at Dublin Airport having arrived from Birmingham on April 6.
Gardai found an image containing serial numbers for five tracker devices on Keating’s phone, one of which had been deployed on Gately’s partner’s car. The phone also contained Instagram images of Gately consistent with the information sent to Arakas to help him identify his target. There was also a reference to Gately being on holiday in Florida over the Christmas period.
The detective agreed with Hugh Hartnett SC, for Keating, that the accused was taking directions from others.
Hartnett asked the judges to consider that his client is “effectively crippled from the knee down on the left side” from an accident he suffered as a teenager. He has ongoing, permanent difficulty including bone disease and an “unsightly wound,” counsel said.
He is, counsel said, a family man who has been involved for many years in organising for a community football team. He had also entered an early guilty plea, saving the court from a potentially lengthy and expensive trial.
Hartnett pointed out that while Keating pleaded guilty to directing a criminal organisation, it was accepted he was receiving directions from others. Mr Justice Hunt intervened: “He is directing those on the ground but he is subject to directions.”
The guards are chipping away at the Kinahans.
This was an odd thread. @Fulvio_From_Aughnacloy thinks that wealthy fraudsters are worse than impoverished violent criminals. With respect, I disagree, I think they’re as bad as each other.
@maroonandwhite thinks that wealthy fraudsters shouldn’t have to go to jail at all. They should just be made give the money back and maybe pay a fine. Does he actually think that would deter anyone at all from being a fraud? Does he think Bernie Madoff would give a fuck about having to pay the money back when he was an old man about to die anyway and he’d had the use of that money all his life? What makes it stranger is he says that he admires US justice - America being the same country where white collar criminals get massive sentences, longer than Irish murderers sometimes. Really he wants US style justice for poor people and no justice or laws at all for rich people.
This was one of the strangest opinions I’ve ever read on TFK, which is saying something.
BTW, was @maroonandwhite the same guy who was defending Sir Bob Geldof a while ago for defrauding his bandmate or was that @TheUlteriorMotive ? Can anyone remember? I’m starting to think that Maroonandwhite might be of very, very suspect character.
As regards blaming the Dean Maguire funeral on the liberals, I’m sympathetic enough that you’re looking for someone to blame but Brazil and the Philippines are both far less liberal than Ireland and they have far far bigger problems with that kind of shite.
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