Ray Collopy: Limerick Criminal won over € 250,000 in social well -being when he sprayed in Europe

The leading role of Ray Collopy in his feud and multi-million euro drug trafficking of his violent criminal clan has no longer prevented him from claiming money over three decades.

Until last October he had been in disability allowance since 2015 and between 2007 and 2015 of 74,200 euros in job seekers – both have been tested.

In addition, he received € 70,000 before 2007, while the Kollopys was aligned with the Keane faction in a fatal gangland feud against the McCarthy Dundons in Limerick.

Collepy's social welfare history was created last week as part of the proceeds of the crime law to confiscate 33,000 euros that are hidden in a friend's house.

As part of the court bid of the criminal asset Bureau (CAB), the financial data and details of his long criminal career were given as evidence.

A high-ranking Garda witness said: “In the past 20 years, he was very involved in the daily criminal activities.”

Collopy, also known as “Jethro”, continued to receive the social payments after the money was found in April 2019, only a month after he had traveled to Spain for a drug agreement.

He also went to Bulgaria with two of his brothers, one of whom, Vincent, had given up at the time and wanted to ask him that he was pending threats to kill.

The brothers Brian, Kieran, Philip – who was killed in 2009 – belonged to the collection – Jonathon, Damien and Raymond.

They come from the street of St. Ita on the island field and had a terrifying reputation in the early 1990s after their father Jack was beaten up by three men.

Brian Collopy became more effective when the gang took over a significant share of the drug business in Limerick and Münster after mob chief Christy Keane had been imprisoned.

The Keanes had also got out with John Ryan, one of the men who accused the colleagues for the attack on their father.

In 2003, Ryan was shot near his house in Moyoss, a murder, for the Vincent Collopy, then 17 years old, was a suspect with Joe Keane, a son of Kieran Keane. Kieran Keane had been murdered six months earlier.

In the CAB evidence, dozens of violent attacks were listed in the 2000s in which members of the collopia gang were involved.

One of them contained an attempt to kill the competing boss Wayne Dundon in February 2004 when he was sitting in a car in front of a McDonald's restaurant in the Crescent Shopping Center.

A motorcycle socius passenger fired a number of shots in Dundon before starting a place where the bike was left and the two people were picked up by a car.

The car was stopped with the Brian and Vincent brothers with two other men, and although they were all arrested, no charges were raised against them.

Details on various drug attacks by Gardai in targeted operations against the gang give an idea of ​​how big the business was for the Limerick gangs.

A search in the street in the street of St. ITA discovered heroin and cocaine worth € 232,000 in 2006.

Another cannabis worth 40,000 euros was found in 2007 at Brian Collepy. In 2009, another search heroin worth € 224,000 and € 307,000 cocaine discovered.

The raids on Raymond's house in St. Munchin's Street in 2018 and 2017 discovered cocaine worth a total of € 8,000 as well as plastic bags and scales.

A Raymond employee was detained for seven and a half years after being caught in cash with cocaine worth € 208,000 and 51,000 euros in 2022.

While no indictment against the collectropy was raised because of these seizures, he was convicted in 2007 for death threats.

He was also detained in a feud in a feud in a feud outside of supermac in 2003.

Last December, Ray Collopy was in court for possession of criminal money together with his former partner Ciara Bradshaw (43) in the Sarsfield Avenue in Garryowen.

A Garda gave evidence that money was vacuum packed in a sock in three bundles and about € 33,000 was.

Gardai was announced that the money in the sock belonged to collopia and that the money in a wallet was for a vacation that the couple wanted to record in Benidorm, as the court heard.

Ms. Bradshaw told Gardai Collepy, a champion angler, asked her to take care of the money while he was on a fishing tour. A jury returned a judgment in which the indictment against her was not guilty.

At the High Court this month, however, Judge Alex Owens accepted Cab's evidence that the money of the proceeds from the crime was.

Collopy did not appear and fought the CAB case.

The Sunday world Previously, how Cab's Collopies were targeted, and in 2019 Brian received a tax demand of € 1.3 million in prison.

Cab also confiscated a house that he had in Fedamore.