The other people arrested as part of the investigation were close associates of slain hitman Robbie Lawlor, who was a gangland enemy of ‘Mr Big’.
The notorious criminal was one of three people questioned as part of the probe into alleged criminal activities in the east of the country.
The other people arrested as part of the investigation were close associates of slain hitman Robbie Lawlor, who was a gangland enemy of ‘Mr Big’.
News in 90 Seconds – Saturday, November 8
A woman arrested as part of the investigation was in a romantic relationship with pyschopath Lawlor before his murder in Belfast in April 2020.
The woman, a former legal professional, was released without charge on Friday, along with a criminal associate of Lawlor’s who has been heavily involved in the Drogheda feud.
A file on all three people will now be sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
“This morning, Saturday 8th November 2025, the third individual who was arrested in relation to alleged organised crime offences was released without charge,” a garda spokeperson told the Sunday World.
Robbie Lawlor
“A file will be prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions.
Investigations are ongoing.”
Despite his release, the garda investigation into Mr Big’s’alleged criminal activities will continue.
Sources say he had been a target of the investigation for some time before his arrest.
Earlier this year, the Sunday World reported that ‘Mr Big’ was so paranoid he was about to face imminent charges that he fled Ireland for Dubai earlier this year.
He is the focus of probes involving An Garda Síochána and the PSNI and his gang is suspected of being involved in numerous murders, including the hit on notorious gunman Lawlor.
At the time of Lawlor’s murder, criminal gangs believed they were able to communicate securely through the Encrochat encrypted messaging service — but unbeknown to them it had been hacked by authorities.
‘Mr Big’ and Lawlor were seen as gangland enemies since the murder of Mr Big’s associate Kenneth Finn in Coolock in 2018.
Lawlor was the prime suspect in his murder.
The feared enforcer was also heavily involved in the Drogheda feud and was at war with the Maguire faction.
Lawlor’s close associate Richie Carberry, who was also feuding with the Maguire faction, was shot dead outside his home in Bettystown, Co Meath in 2019.
He blamed Mr Big for the attack on Carberry.
Lawlor was subsequently suspected of being involved in the brutal murder of teenager Keane Mulready Woods who was dismembered and had his body parts dumped at locations in north Dublin as part of the feud.
The woman who was arrested and released as part of this organised crime investigation has been under death threat because of her relationship with Lawlor who was murdered in 2020 under the orders of gangland boss ‘Mr Big’ in a complex criminal conspiracy involving multiple gangs.
The Sunday World previously revealed that she received a sinister letter after Lawlor was killed in Belfast in April 2020 and warned that her clandestine affair was known about by his rivals.
Details of a late-night attempt to kill him at her home on a night leading up to his assassination was also in the letter along with the time and date a security light at her property had gone off forcing a gunman to flee.
The ‘affair’ between Lawlor and the legal professional had raised eyebrows months previous when he had left flowers on her car near a courthouse.
When gardaí approached her fearing the gesture was a threat, she’d giggled and blushed.
Retired Chief Superintendent Christy Mangan was so concerned about the relationship that he had written to then Garda Commissioner Drew Harris to raise a flag about the type of business she was doing in Louth area.
At the time Lawlor was the chief suspect for the gruesome murder of 17-year-old Mulready Woods – a crime that caused national shock and international headlines when it emerged that the child had been dismembered and some of his body parts brought to north Dublin.