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'DEE DEE' RUNS FOR HIS LIFE

DRUG lord Derek 'Dee Dee' O'Driscoll has fled the country after learning he is a prime target for associates of the slain Corbally brothers.

The veteran mobster is believed to have flown out of Dublin airport earlier in the week in a bid to escape a hitman's bullet.

Gardai believe pals of the Corballys are gunning for revenge and have put a contract on O'Driscoll's head.

Paul (35) and Kenneth Corbally (32) died in a hail of bullets as they sat in a car on Neilstown Road in Clondalkin, West Dublin almost two weeks ago.

O'Driscoll (36), from Ballyfermot, has been involved in a long-running gangland war with the murdered brothers in West Dublin.

Before they were killed, the notorious brothers are suspected of being behind an attempted hit on O'Driscoll at a house in Bluebell last month.

Now Dee Dee has left the country after being told an associate of the Corabllys, who has convictions for serious firearms offenses,
was planning revenge.

Suspect

A member of O'Driscoll's gang is the prime suspect for carrying out the brutal double murder.

A source said: "Dee Dee flew out to the continent and is not coming back anytime soon.

"He is a dead man walking and he knows it."

During the '90s, the Corbally brothers and Dee Dee were all members of the notorious M50 Gang that stole cars for use in ram raids.

The brothers fell out with O'Driscoll as they became rivals in the drugs trade.

The Corbally brothers were associates of Michael Byrne (36), of Old Tower in Clondalkin. Byrne is a major drug dealing figure who was convicted for the possession of 32 kilos of heroin and sentenced to 18 years in April.

Byrne's mob were involved in a long-running turf war with O'Driscoll for the control of the drug trade in West Dublin.

However, their feud is believed to have intensified after the murder of English criminal Jason Martin.

The 41-year-old was stabbed outside Hannigen's pub in Ballyfermot when a brawl escalated into a full scale riot involving up to 20
thugs.

The row began after an associate of Comerford challenged O'Driscoll to a fist fight. Gardai are also investigating if the Corbally
brothers may have been murdered on the orders of a Traveller crime boss.

The brothers are believed to have fallen out with the criminal over the proceeds of an ATM robbery.

It is understood that an alliance turned sour over the proceeds of a robbery at Mother Hubbard's pub in Co Meath in June 2009.

Sources have revealed that the Traveller gang and the Corballys both issued a series of threats to each other earlier this year.

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