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 The Springfield Road ( ga, Bóthar Chluanaí) is a residential area and road traffic thoroughfare adjacent to the Falls Road in west Belfast. The local population is predominantly Irish nationalist and republican. Parts of the road form an i ...

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

Ormeau Road Ormeau Road is a road in south Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland. Ormeau Park is adjacent to it. It forms part of the A24. History The road, as currently laid out, dates from the first decades of the 19th century when a bridge was bui ...

, 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, 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 Newry, 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.

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{{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

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