Gardai have begun an investigation following a prison blade attack allegedly led by Limerick crime boss Wayne Dundon.
A prisoner and four jail staff were injured in the horror incident at Mountjoy on Monday.
The inmate sustained a slash wound to his neck and received around 20 stitches.
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Four staff members at the Dublin jail sustained less serous slash wounds while protecting the inmate.
The Irish Prison Service told how “an incident occurred in Mountjoy Prison on July 10 involving four prison officers”.
It added: “The incident is being investigated and An Garda Siochana have been notified and therefore the Irish Prison Service cannot comment on an ongoing investigation.
“Any act of violence against a prison officer is unacceptable.
“Prison staff work in an extremely challenging environment in which, on a daily basis, they face unique and often violent circumstances unlike most others in the public sector.
“The physical environment in which prison staff operate in, paired with the often challenging behaviours and needs of those in our care lead, at times, to prison staff being injured in the course of their duties.”
A Garda spokesman said he would make enquires and would “revert with a response in due course”. Wayne Dundon along with two of his trusted criminal lieutenants, Nathan Killeen and James Dillon, was jailed for life for the murder of innocent amusement arcade owner Roy Collins, who was shot dead in
April 2009.
Dundon has reportedly been masterminding plans from behind bars to regain his control of the drugs trade on the south side of Limerick city.
Dundon’s brother John Dundon is serving life in jail for the murder of innocent Shane Geoghegan in 2008.
Mr Geoghegan, a popular Garryowen rugby player, was shot dead in a case of mistaken identity by Dundon hitman Barry Doyle, who was also given a life sentence. Wayne and John Dundon’s sibling Dessie Dundon is serving life for the 2003 murder of their rival, crime boss Kieran Keane.
Another brother, Ger Dundon, was jailed for 15 years in the UK last May, after he was convicted for his role in a violent abduction of two men in a bid to extort more than GBP£300,000.
Wayne Dundon’s gang was dismantled by gardai when cops convinced associates of the gang to give evidence against the leaders.
However, sources said a young associate of Wayne Dundon has recently enlisted the assistance of UK gangsters to help enforce the gang’s presence in the south side of Limerick with a view to regaining control of the drugs trade there.
According to a source, this group has been “throwing their weight around” and are again “trying to take over the drugs business”.
One source said: “They have been calling to [other] drug dealers and telling them to knock it on the head.”
On February 16 this year, gardai attached to the Roxboro Road Crime Office conducted a number of planned searches at several properties in Dundon’s traditional stronghold in Hyde Road and Lenihan Avenue, Prospect.
During the course of the searches a cocaine press machine and a large quantity of white powder was seized.
The suspected cocaine was to be “subject to analysis by Forensic Science Ireland”, gardai said at the time.
After repeated requests of gardai over the past six months as to whether the actual “white powder” was indeed cocaine, and what the value of it was, a Garda spokesman said: “A response will be issued in due course.”
