It began in July 2018, when a Drogheda drug dealer was shot and left paralysed but survived his injuries.In the months that followed, a litany of violence unfolded including arson attacks on houses and cars, beatings and at least three more gun attacks designed to kill but which left their intended targets wounded but still alive.On one side of the feud a key figure who had been away from the Louth-Meath area for some time returned to live in the region during the summer. Drogheda feud moves up a gear as gang comes under new management Return of senior crime figure to area has seen tit-for-tat violence escalate to murder Wed, Nov 6, 2019, 02:50. His return appears to have changed the dynamic of the feud.Keith Branigan, a 29-year-old from Drogheda, was shot dead at the Aisling Caravan Park, Clogherhead, Co Louth, in late August. Serious incidents have reduced significantly but there is continuing low level violence and intimidation. A gang boss in the Drogheda feud linked to the murder and beheading of a teenage boy has reportedly fled to Britain. Cab has established a network of asset profilers around the country in recent year to monitor suspicious accumulations of wealth.“This was a significant outcome for gardaí from Drogheda targeting those involved in organised crime,” said Louth Chief Superintendent Stratus has seen a number of significant success recently, including the confiscation of large amounts of cash and drugs.The feud has been partially suppressed, sources say. Photograph: Colin Keegan/Collins A protracted series of non-fatal gun attacks, petrol bombings and beatings has now given way to more clinical and well-planned murderous gun attacks.The feud is a drugs turf war between two criminal gangs based mainly in Drogheda, Co Louth, but with members living through Louth and Meath.
His was the first fatality after 13 months of feuding.The dispute has now claimed its second victim in 39-year-old father of three Richard Carberry, who was fatally wounded outside his family home on Castlemartin Drive, Bettystown, late on Monday night.Carberry was a leading figure in the gang that Branigan was aligned to. Gardaí said the seizures show the merits of members of Cab working with Garda Asset Profilers and local investigating teams.The seizures came about as part of Operation Stratus which was established in October 2018 to combat the feud which has claimed four lives to date and resulted in a string of kidnappings and petrol bomb attacks in the Co Louth town.Cab officers were granted orders under proceeds of crime legislation at the The Court ruled, on the balance of probabilities, that the assets were acquired as a result of criminal activity.The case was referred to Cab by a “divisional asset profiler” attached to the Louth Garda Division. Their gang had gained the upper hand in the feud in the first 12 months.However, since late summer it is the other faction – which has now shot dead Carberry and Branigan – that has gained ground.It has now proven capable of planning and executing two gun murders with the type of brutal efficiency that eluded its rivals, who botched four gun murder attempts in the first 12 months of the feud.Gardaí suspect the gang that has now killed Carberry and Branigan has benefitted from the experience of the senior gangland criminal who has returned to Louth-Meath in recent months to take a leadership role in that group.He has previously been linked to three gun murders and is effectively the most senior gangland criminal on either side of the feud, who now appears to be bringing that experience to bear.The fact that the murder of Carberry has followed just over two months after Branigan was gunned down is of real concern to the Garda.As the Garda response to the feud has been stepped up in Drogheda, the tit-for-tat, often chaotic violence there – including petrol bombings and beatings – has all but stopped. The unnamed mobster has reportedly fled to Birmingham amid the escalating gang war said to be behind the dismemberment of Keane Mulready-Woods.. Keane’s chopped up body and decapitated head were found in various locations in Dublin earlier this month. If you appreciate what we are doing perhaps you would consider making a financial contribution? But the violence has merely moved elsewhere – to date to Clogherhead and Bettystown – and it has proven more deadly.The side of the feud that was under ceaseless attack in the first year of this dispute is now effectively under new management and has embarked on a campaign of murder.Even in the context of the worst Irish gangland violence witnessed over the past two decades, the murders of two men in the same feud a little over two months apart is extreme.The fact Carberry was targeted outside his home at a time when Garda patrols were regularly checking on it points to a worrying degree of confidence and planning on the part of those who killed him.
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