Ken Foy

They'd been followed by the rival faction.

But it didn't stop a lot of taunting on social media where the inevitable, being called a rat and stuff like that, he had to run into the sanctuary of a guard station.

Yes.

Yeah, he has.

He's running a bit scared.

What's happening is fairly hot.

and heavy up here so meanwhile there is kind of various other criminal disputes flaring up in Offaly.

One of his closest pals gets a really savage beating assault with a hatchet in the Kilcormack area and at this stage Hand is kind of living in Burr and

He ended up being charged and convicted in relation to, the guards went in very heavy now, armed guards for a drug search and he hand obstructed it.

He ended up getting a small sentence for it but later repealed that and it got suspended ultimately.

Exactly, yeah.

And this stuff was got in a warehouse.

Yeah.

So obviously the suspicion is it's been stored there and it's for the purpose, as you rightly say, to be moved on in vehicles and trucks.

And as well as cocaine, cannabis was actually a massive source of income for this particular organised crime gang as well, in terms of being brought back here to Ireland for distribution.

Absolutely huge.

And as time goes on, obviously, more arrests, more charges are expected.

The latest arrests and charges happened only last week to middle-aged individuals who were alleged...

to be, I suppose, senior facilitators within the organised crime gang were charged and remanded in custody.

So they were actually given, one has an address in the Clondalkin area and the other has an address in Gorry, County Wexford.