John O' Driscoll was Assistant Commissioner of the Gardai with specific responsibility for Special Crime Operations. He died suddenly at 64 years of age last week
Every once in a while in life and in society a few good men come along. You probably never heard of this one and if you did he was largely below the radar.
But more than that he was responsible for effectively dismantling the whole Kinahan crime operation in Ireland with between 20 to 30 of its members now languishing behind bars. The Kinahans hated him with a vengeance but he quietly and diligently went about his business making our streets far safer than what went before.
He was one of the great Gardai of our time along with the recently retired Chief Supt Christy Managan who solved more murders and serious crime in Ireland along with bringing to an end the long running Drogheda drugs feud which left four people dead. John O'Driscoll was taken from us far too young. He didn't get a chance to enjoy his retirement. He had spent the past year writing a new book on his life in the Garda called On Duty; Reflections Of A Life in the Guards. It was scheduled to be released at the end of October and hopefully it will still be published.
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