You’re saying there’s a dark side?
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The fatal shootings have practically come to a standstill in the capital since the last lot of kinahan triggermen were jailed. They’ve rounded up the murder machine and incarcerated them. It’s an unusually eerie silence. However, it’ll be interesting to see if the stats will sharply increase again when they’re drip-fed back into society on the completion of their sentences or if a new trigger happy group of players step into the vacuum left behind.
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The Limerick crew have filtered back out into society without causing much bother but hard to know. You’re not talking about a massive cohort in either case at the same time.
Was listening to a podcast last week basically making the point that cocaine leads into fentanyl or meth addiction without the person even realising it due to how these drugs are laced.
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Fentanyl is a whole other bag of cats in my experience. Not sure how that one would sneak up on you.
As someone who battled an often life-threatening cocaine addiction for 13yrs, I’d confirm that podcast information is inaccurate.
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Not sure what the story is in Ireland, but it’s been proven repeatedly in labs that cocaine is mixed with other drugs like fentanyl in the states for about two decades now, and a lot of the cocaine people get over there is really a concoction of a variety of different drugs. But again, this is the US, maybe not Ireland.
Anyway the podcast is here, if anyone wants a listen; it’s a two parter:
Street purity levels in Ireland are in the range of 10-15%, which gets bumped up with an assortment of non-mind altering and sometimes mind altering substances to make weight but everyone mixes differently and suppliers change like the wind so you’re rarely getting the same mix consistently.
Drugs, work for the most in the gateway model. Few people start their using careers with heroin or crack. They start off smoking hash/weed and eventually one of their smoking buddies will have tried something stronger, like MDMA and vouches for it’s safety and glorifies it’s effect and they try it. Rinse and repeat this process with cocaine, benzodiazepines and eventually heroin and then crack. That’s usually the route in Ireland. Another instigating factor is when a drug of choice, which eventually often doesn’t give you anything near the effect it used to due to a high tolerance level and they seek a new substance, often in the stronger and more lethal category to try and find an alternative source of relief.
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Jay O Connor, one of the last of the standing westies looking at a serious stretch after leaving 12 bullets in some poor fella who miraculously made a full recovery. They obviously need more powerful guns or better quality bullets. Not bad aiming, which is a rarity in Dublin. O Connor had two fingers chopped off by Alan Ryan’s lot, who wished to tax his earnings.
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How did Gilligan get away with a plea bargain?
The obvious question not answered in this article.
https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2023/0904/1403295-john-gilligan-spain/
Typically lenient Spanish sentencing, probably driven by a woeful economy, prison overcrowding and much akin to Ireland, a politician broadcasting that he’s going to build a state of the art, massive prison to house the criminals will win no votes when he tells people how much it’s going to cost and run.
The one thing I found eyebrow raising was the size of the fine. 14,000. It’s not something you’d see here often, as most of the prison population or criminal classes havn’t a pot to piss in and live from deal to deal. I can’t imagine Gilligan has that kind of money, but Fat Tony might and will probably cover it for him.
His son was lashing insults at him when he was taken in from the prison escort, so one can only assume that he isn’t getting much help from him in prison, as he didn’t throw him under the bus in this case.
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Factory John is a bit of craic
shoot and i’ll move ya 
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He can’t help himself with the bravado , You get a sense he’s being stitched up like a kipper here by the producers .
State of the glasses on Gilligan today , reminded me of those pennies you’d see as a child that were rolled over by a train.
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More like the ones Steve Martin was selling in the film the Jerk
He’s looking well.
Laughing his hole off at that 14k fine in my honest opinion….
Fuck me, I’ve a shirt the same as that…
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