Feuding gangland figure Ian ‘Mad Dog’ Maloney questioned by gardai for firearm offences after city gun attack

 19th February 2022

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Feuding Crumlin gangland figure Ian ‘Mad Dog’ Maloney is being questioned by gardai for firearms offences following a gun attack in the capital last week.

The Kinahan associate and convicted armed robber is at the centre of a south Dublin feud with a pal of Conor McGregor which saw a gun attack and three fire bombings in a 48-hour period last week.

He had gone to ground in the days after the attacks and was the subject of a number of garda search operations.

Heavily armed gardai from the Emergency Response Unit (ERU) raided Maloney’s home in Crumlin last week but he wasn’t there when they searched the house.

Maloney was due up in Bray District Court on Tuesday to face charges of driving without insurance and driving while disqualified but he failed to turn up for the court appearance.

A judge then issued a bench warrant for his arrest.

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The following day Maloney handed himself into gardai in Crumlin who are now questioning him in relation to a gun attack on the family home of a Crumlin drug dealer on Thursday of last week.

A garda spokesman said he was being detained under Section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act for firearms offences.

There have been several incidents linked to the feud before in recent weeks and one line of inquiry is that it was sparked off by a row in a pub.

The feud escalated with a gun attack believed to have been carried out by the Maloney side on a house on Downpatrick Road in the early hours of Thursday, February 10.

This was followed by a petrol bomb attack carried out by associates of Maloney’s rival on an apartment in Kilmainham hours later. The attackers were intending to target a female relative of Maloney but targeted the wrong apartment. CCTV footage of the incident shows the thugs smashing a window before throwing the firebomb into an innocent family’s home but thankfully no injuries were reported.

Maloney’s rivals are also suspected of carrying out another firebomb attack hours later on a car belonging to an associate of Maloney in Pimlico and are also suspected of carrying out a petrol bomb attack on another female relative of Maloney’s home on Cashel Road around 10pm on Friday, February 11.

The criminal whose home was shot at is a convicted drug dealer aged in his 30s and a close friend of Conor McGregor.

The UFC fighter, who has no involvement in criminality, and his pal have been regularly spotted in each other’s company and socialising together in recent years.