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Reports Revisit Keane Mulready-Woods’ Final Call Before 2020 Drogheda Gang Murder

The case illustrates how a local drug feud descended into extreme violence with few principals held to account.

Overview

  • Keane Mulready-Woods, 17, was lured to a house on January 12, 2020, where he was abducted, tortured, beheaded, and dismembered.
  • His limbs were dumped in a sports bag in Moatview, and his head, hands, and feet were later found in a burned-out car in Dublin.
  • Before disappearing, he phoned his mother to say he would be home late and asked her to leave out taxi money.
  • Gardaí suspect Robbie Lawlor ordered the attack after initially suggesting only a punishment beating over a small drug debt, and he was later shot dead in retaliatory violence tied to the feud.
  • In February 2023, Paul Crosby was jailed for 10 years and Gerard “Rocky” Cruise for seven years for facilitating the murder, while Gerard “Ged” McKenna admitted cleaning up and removing evidence, as the victim’s mother delivered a harrowing impact statement.