title: Direct Action Against Drugs
text: # Direct Action Against Drugs
  
  Direct Action Against Drugs was a vigilante group in Northern Ireland that claimed responsibility for the killing of a number of alleged drug dealers. The organisation was allegedly a front name used by the Provisional IRA in claiming responsibility for the killings. It was made up of IRA active members exclusively.
  
  ## List of suspected DAAD attacks 1995–2001
  
  * December 1995
     * Martin McCrory, a small-time drug dealer killed at his home in Turf Lodge, west Belfast.
     * Chris Johnston (aged 38) was killed at his home off Ormeau Road, south Belfast.
     * Francis Collins, a former member of the IRA, was killed at his chip shop in New Lodge, Belfast.
  * January 1996
     * Ian Lyons died 2 January 1996, one day after being shot while sitting in a parked car outside a friend's home, Conor Park, Lurgan, County Armagh.
  * September 1996
     * Séan (John) Devlin, killed in Friendly Street, Markets, south Belfast.
  * February 1998
     * Brendan Campbell (aged 30), a convicted drug dealer, was shot dead outside a restaurant in south Belfast.
  * May 1999
     * Brendan Joseph Fegan (aged 24), who had been described as one of Northern Ireland's main drug dealers, was shot 16 times by two gunmen in the Hermitage Bar, Newry.
  * June 1999
     * Paul Downey (aged 37), a suspected drug dealer from Newry, was shot dead, allegedly by DAAD.
  * April 2001
     * Christopher O'Kane was gunned down as he returned to his home in the Currynieran estate, Derry, on 21 April 2001.
  