The pint-sized mobster dais: 'I’m glad nobody got caught. Because you’re either a criminal or you’re not. And a criminal would not want another criminal to be caught'
John Gilligan says he’s glad the gunman who killed Martin “the General” Cahill has never been caught.
“He got what was coming to him if he did wrong,” he says in the book, The Gilligan Tapes, Ireland’s most notorious crime boss in his own words, an extract from which is published exclusively in today’s Star/Mirror. Doorman and IRA member Martin Doherty died when he was shot preventing the gang from throwing their bomb into the pub – and the terror group targeted Cahill in revenge.
He says: “They got £243,000 out of that robbery – there was £6 million in the safe! The fella that went in and got the money couldn’t count. He robbed £2 million worth of diamonds and gold from O’Connor’s [jewellers]. Traynor was Martin Cahill’s right-hand man, in the sense of running around for him. He didn’t do any serious criminality with him. He’d do research and paperwork for him. Traynor said, ‘I was telling Martin about what Simon Rahman was telling us: that you can get the AK47s for eighty quid. So, he’s after bringing me around 240 quid to get him three.’ You’re an awful gobshite!’ I said. ‘That’s what they get in the war zone.
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