Eamon Dillon

There was a young, I think a teenager was in the car as well, was lucky to escape from that.

But, you know, and there's any amount of people who could have been behind that.

They were in conflict with, you know, a separate gang as well.

You know, they had a reputation for serious violence and, you know, kind of a trademark signature slashing people across the face who owed them money for drugs.

Yeah, and he would have been based, I suppose, in Labrador Park there in Ballyfermot, but he also had a lot of connections in Wexford as well, which explains why he was, I suppose, operating in that area, in that kind of North Wexford, South Kilkenny, where they'd been going after the ATMs.

Yeah, I mean, I suppose it's acting on intelligence from Operation Slope.

And I mean, it's quite possible there'll be others coming along.

I mean, it was actually in 2023 that...

There was a case in Wexford Circuit Court in which he had 26,000 that was confiscated from him.

That had actually been frozen at the time, like around, I think it was in 2011.

Some of that was about seven grand of it was found in a sock and the rest of it was in a credit union account.

So it took until 2023 before that was seized.

And then obviously, you know, the vehicle and trailer that was taken off him as well by cab five years ago, that's only going through the courts now.

And, you know, it does sound like, I mean, the next stage for that is going to be, because they're a depreciating asset, Cabo are going to apply to sell that off and then the money gets lodged into an escrow accountant.

And then if he wins the case, he'll get the money back.

He won't necessarily get the Jeep back.

And they'll have to use that to buy a new vehicle to get the kids to school.

Yeah, I mean, there was one bank account they identified and there was a lot of kind of sums of cash, like, you know, between €20,000 and €50,000 that were passing through it.

So, I mean, you know, the fact that they got €26,000 off a man a Jeep isn't exactly, you know, it's part of it.

But, I mean, it is part of the remit, I suppose, of CAB is to try and, you know, deny and deprive criminals of enjoying the fruits of their ill-gotten gains.