{"id":423152,"date":"2025-09-14T07:41:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T07:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/423152\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T07:41:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T07:41:14","slug":"brendan-ocallaghan-border-bandit-unmasked-as-one-of-nis-biggest-drug-barons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/423152\/","title":{"rendered":"Brendan O\u2019Callaghan: Border bandit unmasked as one of NI\u2019s biggest drug barons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EXCLUSIVE\u00a0|\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Former Provos turned blind eye as crime boss used links with south Armagh republicans to flood streets with cocaine\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brendan 'B-Man' O'Callaghan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/df87b007-23a4-402f-8bd3-99d1ed8a59ed.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Brendan &#8216;B-Man&#8217; O&#8217;Callaghan<\/p>\n<p>Sunday Life Investigations<\/p>\n<p>Today at 08:00<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Border bandit Brendan O\u2019Callaghan can finally be unmasked as one of Northern Ireland\u2019s biggest drug barons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Known as the \u2018B-Man\u2019 in criminal circles, and from a Crossmaglen family steeped in republicanism, the 37-year-old ran multimillion-pound smuggling rackets throughout Armagh, Louth and Monaghan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE\u00a0|\u00a0 Former Provos turned blind eye as crime boss used links with south Armagh republicans to flood streets&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[22306,1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-423152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-ira","9":"tag-northern-ireland","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115201526492339096","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}