Nicola Tallent

Really similar scenario to what we've heard from some of the gangs in Drogheda, what we've heard from some of the major gangs in West Dublin.

And it is that identifying and using addicted people who will create or owe a debt or maybe not.

It's all there in the ether and they're forced to work for free.

Do you think that's the MO now of most gangs or is it just specific to certain types of drug outfits?

But they're also paying the workers.

That was after the raids then?

So you spoke about two Ford Focus cars, a transit van, 12,000 in cash and a Rolex watch.

But was there evidence given about the amount of money that was passing through the accounts that was spent?

I mean, there was clearly a lot more money than that made over the period of time.

I don't have that.

12 euro in various bundles.

The case against Gary and his wife has mentioned the brothers, but is there a target of their assets?

I noticed that it was said that Michael, who lives in Carrigan Shannon, has a property he bought for 100,000 and he runs a home repair firm.

Are they moving in and out of the country all the time with that business?

These were likely an outfit that were identified by local criminal assets bureau profilers.

And that's still a huge arm of the criminal assets bureau, isn't it?

And which we've seen explode into way bigger situations than where they start, which is often just throwing, you know, firebombs into one another's houses.

And the next thing you can have a situation like Drogheda, where you have the whole economy nearly of the town on a knife edge because these groups, their war has spilled over into everybody's lives.

Well, it's good to get a little bit of an insight into some of the activities and some of the characters that are involved in this in the Galway area, because more often than not, an awful lot of our focus is around Dublin, which, of course, is a bigger market, the biggest market in the country and probably where a lot of the wholesaling comes from.

But nonetheless,