LAWLOR HIT KICKED OFF GANG FEUD

SLAIN hitman Robbie Lawlor is alleged to have shouted 'These are from Keith' when he shot mob boss Owen Maguire on behalf of the Boylan Organised Crime Group leaving the gangster paralysed and fuelling the vicious Drogheda feud, a court heard.

- BY NICOLA DONNELLY

The details of that shooting and what Lawlor is alleged to have said can now be revealed as two brothers identified as leaders of a criminal gang involved in the dangerous feud in the Co Louth town have been linked by gardai to the attempted murders of rival mob boss Maguire and his brother Brendan.

Keith Boylan, 30, and his brother Josh, 26, from Moneymore in Drogheda, were unmasked last week for the first time as leaders of the Boylan Organised Crime Group, which is at war with Maguire and his associates, by a Garda witness during a money laundering sentencing case of three women.

Garda John Walsh of Drogheda Garda Station named the brothers at Dundalk Circuit Court.

He told the court: "The Boylan Organised Crime Group is one of the two feuding factions involved in the large-scale sale and supply and importation drugs.

"Keith Boylan has been identified as the head of the Boylan of Organised Crime Group and his brother Josh Boylan is classed as second in command of the organised crime group."

The Boylan OCG helped fuel one of Ireland's most terrifying gangland feuds while at war with the PriceMaguire OCG.

That feud, which kicked off in 2017 and escalated following the shooting of Owen Maguire in July 2018, led to four murders including that of 17-yearold Keane MulreadyWoods, who was murdered and dismembered by Lawlor.

The feud erupted when now slain serial killer Lawlor who was an associate of the Boylan brothers shot Maguire at Mell Halting Site on the Cement Road in the town on July 5, 2018.

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