I did a bit of work for a not for profit in inner city (smashee and nicee references welcome).
The locals referred to likes of me and you as “real people”. As in they weren’t
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Think I mentioned before my mate was a community Garda down there. Used to have them playing 5 a side and the like.
He arrives down one week and they all start calling him 50. He has no clue what’s going until one of the local women asked had he been caught speeding on the M50 the previous weekend as all the lads knew about it 
A celebration of life
She has no land, don’t worry
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O’Dwyer & Sons sure as hell do a good funeral. Transport, music, death notices etc.,
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When your time comes I’d love us to get them to give you a good send off.
Will you sign the letter to authorise us
@Fagan_ODowd up on @Little_Lord_Fauntleroy shoulders while the Galway lads are shawldering him would be a video clip for the ages
There’ll be as much droning over Leitrim as a Sid and Labane racism thread.
I’m thinking of this for the music
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You’re clearly an ideas man. Of course I wouldn’t give a shit but it mightn’t fly with rhe next generation.
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Useful to produce when someone on a vox pop after a murder says "nuttin like this ever happens around here "
Terror link led US to target Kinahan gang
The US was given intelligence linking the Kinahan crime cartel to the money-laundering activities of terrorist groups in the Middle East and South America before Washington’s decision to impose sanctions on the gang.
The information outlined the Kinahans’ involvement in money-laundering with terrorist groups affiliated to Iran, and their financial ties to narco-terrorist groups in Colombia, including the ELN and Farc guerillas, according to security sources. The Kinahans are suspected of sourcing most of the cocaine they sell in Europe from Colombian rebels.
On Tuesday the Biden administration said it had imposed sanctions and offered a reward of up to $5 million for information leading to the arrests of the gang leaders. The classified intelligence is said to have been crucial in encouraging the Office of Foreign Assets Control to list the cartel and its leadership as sanctioned entities.
The designation requires financial institutions to freeze any accounts controlled by the named persons and by three companies suspected of being a laundering vehicle. It also prohibits them from trading in dollars.
The decision by the US authorities came after the Department of Foreign Affairs and the gardai had lobbied for years for help to take down the gang, which is based in Dubai but has a global reach.
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In an interview John O’Driscoll, a garda assistant commissioner, said the Kinahans had been “reckless” in choosing people to assist them with laundering money, as there was the potential it was being used to finance terrorism.
“This is the real problem which will bring on board people at a global level. There are all sorts of people facilitating money laundering. The Kinahans have been reckless as to what those other interests are with those people, as some of them will be terrorist related,” he said. “This is where global-level law enforcement really has to wake up, and see that it doesn’t matter whether these people are from Ireland if their laundering is being facilitated by X, Y or Z who are using it to finance terrorism.”
O’Driscoll said gardai were focused on building a global alliance whose aim would be to arrest and imprison members of the cartel and seize their assets, which have been valued at €1 billion.
He said the US authorities had been provided with as much “raw intelligence” as was legally permissible under Irish law.
“There were some restrictions about what we could share. There [are] rules around that,” O’Driscoll said. Some of the intelligence was said to have originated from intercepted communications.
The intelligence services believe the Kinahan leadership is now operating under the protection of the ruling elite in the UAE or its security services. Diplomatic efforts by Ireland to have Christy Kinahan and his sons Daniel and Christopher Jr expelled from the emirate have been unsuccessful.
The US authorities have circulated reward posters in languages including Arabic in the hope of encouraging people to provide incriminating information.
The cartel’s involvement with terrorist groups has been long suspected. The Kinahans are known to have connections to foreign criminals who have acted as proxies for Iran’s military intelligence.
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Naoufal Fassih, 41, a Moroccan who was extradited to the Netherlands after gardai found him living in a Dublin apartment, was convicted in 2019 of organising an assassination on Iran’s behalf.
Fassih was jailed for life for the murder of Mohammad Reza Kolahi Samadi, 56, who had been sentenced to death in Iran after being accused of planting a bomb at the Islamic Republic party’s headquarters in 1981, killing 73 people.
Samadi was shot in the head outside his home in the Dutch town of Almere by two assailants dressed in black. The Kinahan cartel was said by security sources to have helped the killer escape and provided accommodation and support for Fassih in Ireland.
The US administration was also told that the Kinahan cartel had connections with Vory, a group of Russian gangsters who are used by the Kremlin’s intelligence services for deniable activities.
Good twitter
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Boxing and the UFC are full of simpletons
What a shock
Bobs position became untenable when it became clear that he didn’t know who his boss was
The likes of Eddie Hearn must be relishing things. He can pick up a load of lads for a fraction of what they’d normally cost him
Hearn will have questions to answer himself on links with Kinahan.
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