Martin "Marlo" Hyland

Martin Oliver "Marlo" Hyland (1 September 1969 – 12 December 2006) was an Irish criminal and gang boss. As a teenager he led a gang of young criminals from Cabra, involved in burglary, car theft and robbery. In 1986, eighteen-year-old Hyland was sent to prison for various offences including conspiracy to commit robbery, burglary, malicious damage and car theft. Having served a jail sentence after being convicted, Brady was shot dead 18 months after his release in 1996; though a 2007 Sunday World article alleged that Hyland had Judge murdered after he incurred a debt of £130,000 to Judge following a drug seizure. In his 2011 book Badfellas, crime journalist Paul Williams wrote that following Judge's murder of William "Jock" Corbally, there was increased Garda attention on the area, disrupting criminal activity by the IRA locally. Judge and Hyland had both paid off the IRA to ensure their safety. Members of the IRA, who had controlled the Concerned Parents Against Drugs group in the area, had met with Hyland and encouraged him to kill Judge, as both Hyland and the IRA saw him as a liability.

By 2000, Hyland had become the dominant figure in organised crime in North Dublin. He controlled a large gang of drug dealers and armed robbers from Cabra, Finglas and Ballymun. The gang were involved in the importation of large shipments of cannabis, cocaine, ecstasy and heroin as well as VAT fraud, car theft, armed robbery, extortion and the supply of firearms. Between 2002 and 2004 his gang was involved in a spate of robberies of security vans delivering money to ATM bank machines in Dublin. In a ten-month period alone, between October 2003 to July 2004, they got away with an estimated €3 million.

Hyland's reign was characterised by his networking with other gangs and establishment of strong links with other gangs across the country, including the McCarthy-Dundons in Limerick, to whom he supplied guns during their feud. Hyland also supplied guns to the "Fat" Freddie Thompson faction of the Crumlin-Drimnagh feud, and provided the IRA with guns and getaway cars. Hyland reasoned that with increased Garda attention on Crumlin and Drimnagh, there would be less attention paid to his own activities. The operation was a huge success and within the first few months it had led to the seizure of 30 kilos of heroin, 35 kilos of cocaine and 1,427 kilos of cannabis. A number of stolen vehicles, €200,000 in cash and weapons including AK47s were also recovered. These seizures left Hyland scrambling to attempt to pay his suppliers abroad.

Twenty four of Hyland's associates were facing serious charges, which led to resentment and bad feeling within the gang. As Gardaí pressure increased, Hyland became more isolated as gang members blamed him for all the attention. Further pressure grew on Hyland after the murder of Baiba Saulite, a 26 year old Latvian woman, which Hyland had organised for John Dundon from the McCarthy-Dundon gang. The murder of Campbell, uninvolved in crime, prompted outrage from the Irish public.

Despite Gardaí suspecting the killers were two of Hyland's most trusted lieutenants, and arresting Dunne and a number of his gang members, no one has been convicted of the double murder. Dunne, believed to have driven the getaway car during the murder, effectively took control of the gang soon after. Dunne was linked to over a dozen gangland murders over the next three years before he himself was shot dead at a pub in Cabra in April 2010.