Direct Action Against Drugs

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Direct Action Against Drugs was a vigilante group in Northern Ireland that claimed responsibility for the killing of a number of alleged drug dealers. The organisation was allegedly a front name used by the Provisional IRA in claiming responsibility for the killings. It was made up of IRA active members exclusively.

List of suspected DAAD attacks 1995–2001

  • December 1995
    • Martin McCrory, a small-time drug dealer killed at his home in Turf Lodge, west Belfast.
    • Chris Johnston (aged 38) was killed at his home off Ormeau Road, south Belfast.
    • Francis Collins, a former member of the IRA, was killed at his chip shop in New Lodge, Belfast.
  • January 1996
    • Ian Lyons died 2 January 1996, one day after being shot while sitting in a parked car outside a friend's home, Conor Park, Lurgan, County Armagh.
  • September 1996
    • Séan (John) Devlin, killed in Friendly Street, Markets, south Belfast.
  • February 1998
    • Brendan Campbell (aged 30), a convicted drug dealer, was shot dead outside a restaurant in south Belfast.
  • May 1999
    • Brendan Joseph Fegan (aged 24), who had been described as one of Northern Ireland's main drug dealers, was shot 16 times by two gunmen in the Hermitage Bar, Newry.
  • June 1999
    • Paul Downey (aged 37), a suspected drug dealer from Newry, was shot dead, allegedly by DAAD.
  • April 2001
    • Christopher O'Kane, who had a reputation as a drug dealer, was gunned down as he returned to his home in the Currynieran estate, Derry, on 21 April 2001.

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