Drug gang leaders held following Garda 'super raid' - The Irish Times - Tue, Nov 09, 2010: ", the gang leader, Christy Griffin (41), originally from Canon Lillis Avenue, Dublin, was accused of raping a young woman repeatedly from the time she was a child. Griffin has since been convicted of rape and is serving a life sentence.
Many of his associates stood by him while others believed Griffin’s accuser and formed a faction opposed to Griffin. A volatile and dangerous gangland feud ensued involving not only five murders, but numerous non-fatal shootings and pipe bomb and grenade attacks.
The Garda raids yesterday targeted the gang feuding with Griffin’s grouping.
“Operation Chisel”, which has been under way for 10 months, is centred on gathering information with a view to securing prosecutions under new anti-gangland legislation introduced last year. These laws made it an offence to lead or participate in a crime gang.
As well as the Dublin raids, searches took place in the other four counties because the gang has members living there or is supplying drugs to smaller gangs in those areas.
According to Garda sources, the target gang has forged close links with arguably the two biggest crime gangs in Ireland: the McCarthy-Dundon gang in Limerick; and the gang in Finglas, Dublin, once led by murdered criminal Eamon Dunne.
Yesterday’s operation was co-ordinated from Pearse Street Garda station by Chief Supt Pat Leahy, under Assistant Commissioner Mick Feehan, who is in charge of policing in Dublin, and Deputy Commissioner Martin Callinan, who is in charge of all operations across the force."
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