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June 22, 2025

Boylan brothers head of faction in Drogheda terror 'Drug supplies won't be stopped by naming of pair

THESE are some of the violent thugs who brought terror on to the streets in the bloody Drogheda feud - that claimed four lives and left many others injured in horror shooting attacks.

Today, the Irish Sunday Mirror unmasks the evil mobsters in the Boylan Organised Crime Group who fuelled one of Ireland's most terrifying gangland feuds while at war with the Price-Maguire Organised Crime Group.

Keith Boylan, 30, of Moneymore in Drogheda was just 22 years of age when he became the alleged leader of the BOCG while his younger brother Josh, 26, was just 18-years-old when he became “second in command”.

In their younger years they were associated with mob boss Owen Maguire but split over a battle for control of the drugs trade in the town.

That split marked the start of the deadly feud in the town.

Garda John Walsh of Drogheda Garda Station unmasked the brothers at Dundalk Circuit Court last Wednesday during a sentencing hearing for three women who admitted laundering money on behalf of the crime group.

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 of drugs.

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

The gang has been at war with paralysed mob boss Owen Maguire of the Price-Maguire Organised Crime Group and his associates since 2017 when the deadly feud, which saw four murders including that of 17-year-old Keane Mulready-Woods in 2020, started.

The feud erupted when now slain serial killer Robbie Lawlor - who was an associate of the Boylan brothers - shot Maguire several times in July 2018 and left him paralysed and in a wheelchair.

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