A surprising motive for criminal Robbie Lawlor's murder

Notorious Dublin criminal Robbie Lawlor was shot dead in Belfast in 2020, when he arrived at a house in the Ardoyne area of the city, to collect a drug debt. Lawlor was a 36-year-old father originally from Coolock, Dublin, though he had relocated to Laytown, Co Meath, for the final years of his life. He was the chief suspect in a number of gangland attacks, including five murders over a 15-year period to 2020. Now new details have emerged, which outline the alleged planning of the killing, and the economics that underpinned it. They are contained within a legal document, seen by Irish Times crime and security editor Conor Lally. It alleges a three-way coalition acted together to murder Lawlor and how the main players in this plan stood to gain financially because debts they owed would die with Lawlor, or would be cancelled as a reward for his murder. In this episode, Lally explains how the murder took place and the impact it had on the gangland scene. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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A surprising motive for criminal Robbie Lawlor's murder is an episode from In The News by dconlon@irishtimes.com .

This episode is 20:31 long.

This episode was published on Apr 27, 2026.

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