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Mar 2025
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Episode 923: How Ray Collopy claimed mor...

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A Limerick man claimed more than €250k in social welfare while being ‘heavily involved’ in the activities of a drugs gang, CAB has claimed.


Ray Collopy’s shady past was detailed by the Criminal Assets Bureau as they sought to seize €33k found in a sock.


Niall speaks to the Sunday World’s Eamon Dillon about the Collopy brothers and their role in Limerick’s gangland feud.



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