Pre-Irish Crime Families: During the 1960s there was very little crime in Dublin, with the majority of crime being petty crime, while murder and gun-related crime was extremely rare. There was a strong sense of community between families, but the church had some influence on creating the law-abiding mind state in Dublin and its relative cities. A breeding ground for criminals was at Catholic Reform School, which had harsh policies in teaching and looking after children. Aiming to turn them away from petty crime, however some responded differently. Cahill and Dunne were noted to be at these schools.
The Introduction of the Gun Era:
During the 1970s Dublin saw a radical change crime wise, in particular a big increase in gun crime. One considered influence of that caused the increase in gun-crime is the upheaval and violence in Northern Ireland. The main culprit for bringing in gun crime into Dublin was a paramilitary group called Saor Éire, which consisted of ex-IRA, anarchists and revolutionaries. Saor Éire conducted multiple robberies to fund their organisation; a well-known case is the killing of a Garda during a robbery at Allied Irish bank. One notable person who joined Saor Éire was Christy Dunne who would go on to make one of the first Irish crime families (some calling him the original Irish Godfather), with connection to Britains gun and drug trade. Soon ordinary criminals (with little political influence), would join/cooperate with the Dunnes crime family. Mainly partaking in co-operative robberies, this included Christy’s 8 brothers, and many recruits who would then pursue their own crime families such as Martin “The General” Cahill, John “The Colonel” Cunningham, George “The Penguin” Mitchel, John “Warehouse John” Gilligan. Majority of these criminals coming from the poor and uneducated industrial slums of inner-city Dublin.
Before the Antigen robbery, Christy Dunne would specialize in kidnapping, for a short while.[8] However 1978 in an Antigen pharmaceutical factory, the Dunne's stole many pharmaceutical drugs which would go for a high price on the black market. Due to the profit the Dunne's would put their priorities in the drug-trade as their main source of income.
Overall in the 1970s we saw huge increase in armed robbery, extortion, and murder. But also the beginning of the Irish crime families and gun-crime. What also occurred during this period is the emergence of the Provisional IRA and the Official IRA, who did the bulk of bank robberies and murder. This allowed crime families to do their activities under the radar.
he Heroin Epidemic and Cahill:
While the Dunnes (headed now by Larry Dunne) would be the first crime family to get involved with drug-trade, Gilligan brought drug-smuggling to a whole new level. Money was earned in the millions in the 1980s through the heroin epidemic. It was considered easier money and more lucrative than bank robberies.
The heroin crisis destroyed communities of working class inner-city neighborhoods, which were once considered to be safe. Despite this many citizens protested and took their own actions against the epidemic, most notable was Concerned Parents Against Drugs. Some of these vigilantes took extreme actions such as murdering or blowing an apartment of a believed drug-dealer.
Often Larry Dunne could not meet the demand of heroin, so many others got involved, but Larry was still considered the main source. One was Tony “King Scum” Felloni, once in the prostitution business, he would move into the drug-trade. Overall there was mutual respect, and practically no conflict between crime families and drug king-pins, around the 1980s.
In 1983 Larry would finally be arrested and not be able to post bail when drugs were found in his mansion. This led Larry to leaving the country. But was caught in 1985 at Portugal. With the Criminal Justice Act in place, it would make life harder for drug -traffickers and stop the laid-back bail laws (often abused to Dunne Family). As a result, circa mid-1980s majority of the Dunnes were in prison or fled.
However, with the end of the Dunne family, many saw it as an opportunity to join the drug-trade and be number one (it was estimated to be roughly 40 groups). The person to replace the Dunnes, in being the next drug-kingpin was John “Warehouse John” Gilligan, once a small-time crook, he would form a mob of 6, during his sentence in Portlaoise Prison. Gilligan’s small mob would consist of Bryan Meehan, Peter “Fatso” Mitchel and Paul “Hippo” Ward. Gilligan started off selling cannabis as it was less of a priority for the guard and the buyers had more money. Later however Gilligan's membership would grow to a much larger number, but with that came lack of loyalty.
The Gardai’s focus was still paramilitary groups (with the odd taskforce combatting drugs).
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