Niall Donald

He was stripped naked, bleach was thrown over his body.

He suffered assaults and had QH carved into his chest.

I mean, about as extreme a crime as this country has seen in recent times.

Yeah.

Yes, and most of it was directed by a guy called Dublin Jimmy.

who we spoke about recently on the podcast in connection with one of his associates going down.

So Cyril McGuinness was his real name, Dublin Jimmy was what he was known as, no surprise he was from Dublin, from Swords.

And Cyril McGuinness was an unusual type of gang boss, but a gang boss he was, who had been

involved in, I suppose, associated with the Provisional IRA, certainly not an IRA member, but had been involved in some of their smuggling operations.

He'd moved up around the border area and had been involved in crimes across Europe.

Spent time in a Russian gulag.

spent time in a Russian gulag, had been prosecuted in Belgium, wasn't it, for... For kind of theft of industrial machinery.

Yes, and a lot of that type of crime, also being involved in cattle rustling and a lot of that sort of border smuggling crime that, you know, he'd become a very wealthy man.

So, as you spoke about, the...

As this long-running saga went on, Jubble and Jimmy was hired, basically, to carry out a campaign of intimidation for the people involved in the takeover of the Quinn businesses.

in, you know, abroad or anything.

He kept all his businesses in the local area, so there was support for him.

And one way or another, Dublin Jimmy, who presumably didn't care too much either way, became involved in this very, very extreme campaign of intimidation.

Some of it as small as just blocking roads off when trucks were coming back and forth, but also, as you described, some extreme violence.

So, as, after Kevin Lunny was kidnapped and he was rescued by the guards, the instant suspicion would have fallen on Dublin Jimmy.