Direct Action Against Drugs was a

vigilante Vigilantism () is the act of preventing, investigating and punishing perceived offenses and crimes without legal authority. A vigilante (from Spanish, Italian and Portuguese “vigilante”, which means "sentinel" or "watcher") is a person who ...

group in

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that claimed responsibility for the killing of a number of alleged

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s. The organisation was allegedly a

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name used by the

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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.CAIN
Chronology of the Conflict 1995; accessed 8 November 2007. ** Chris Johnston (aged 38) was killed at his home off

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, south Belfast. **Francis Collins, a former member of the IRA, was killed at his chip shop in

New Lodge, Belfast The New Lodge ( gle, Lóiste Nua) is an urban, working class Catholic community in Belfast, Northern Ireland, immediately to the north of the city centre. The landscape is dominated by several large tower blocks. The area has a number of mural ...

. *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 Lurgan () is a town in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, near the southern shore of Lough Neagh. Lurgan is about south-west of Belfast and is linked to the city by both the M1 motorway and the Belfast–Dublin railway line. It had a population ...

, County Armagh.CAIN
Chronology of the Conflict 1996; accessed 8 November 2007. *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.
Chronology of the Conflict 1998; accessed 8 November 2007. *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

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, was shot dead, allegedly by DAAD.CAIN
Chronology of the Conflict 1999; accessed 8 November 2007. *April 2001 **Christopher O'Kane was gunned down as he returned to his home in the Currynieran estate, Derry, on 21 April 2001.

References

{{PIRA Front organizations Provisional Irish Republican Army Vigilantes Illegal drug trade in the United Kingdom Paramilitary punishment attacks in Northern Ireland

List of suspected DAAD attacks 1995–2001

See also

References