const script = document.createElement('script'); However, gardai are on high alert for more fallout from the bitter feud playing out on the streets of west Dublin. OConnor, who vowed revenge for the attack, lunged at McDonald and threatened him during the trial. Although reputed mafiosi have dominated news accounts of organized crime for decades, a documentation of organized criminal activity in New York would be incomplete without the inclusion of the Westies, according to a 1983 New York City Police Department report. Russell was seriously injured when he was mown down by a car as he was walking on the pavement in 2016 after his release from prison in another incident believed to be linked to the feud. At a hearing in July 2010 it emerged that on the day that murdered crime figure John Paul Joyce went missing, Joyce went to hand over a BMW car's logbook to David Goulding. Gardai recovered a machine pistol and a handgun in the house in Whitechapel Grove after the siege ended and also recovered a second machine pistol in the back garden of the house during follow up searches. They sprang up in west Dublin about five years ago. Dunn Loring, VA 22027. Gintaras Zelvys was shot twice in the body with a handgun as he arrived with his wife to open up his 'cash for clothes' business in the Greenogue industrial estate, Rathcoole, west Dublin. The information he and his wife Sissy provided, and the recordings they helped make, achieved this aim. He said he never intended to hurt anyone and was not going to point the gun. Although the Italian gangsters greatly outnumbered the Irish mob, Spillane was successful in keeping control of the convention center and Hell's Kitchen. Cigarettes were stubbed out on the breasts of a mother who couldn't pay for her heroin. Bernard 'Verb' Sugg (23) was shot dead by two masked men in a pub in Blanchardstown in August 2003. This year, many gardeners are looking for new varieties of tomatoes to try out in their gardens. Police say he killed a 28-year-old stagehand and fellow Westies member in 1975 to avenge the slaying of yet another Westies member two months earlier in a saloon fight over a woman. ", But for one 16-year-old, Sugg was a "sound bloke". Sugg and Coates were forced to flee Ireland for Spain in 2003 because of the heat they were getting from gardai. They were childhood pals who grew up together and joined Dublin's most notorious crime gang. The bitter west Dublin feud has intensified since Goulding was released from jail a number of months ago after serving time for the burglary sentence. subtree: true, window.loadGTM(); Criminal who shot two gardai during Dublin seige was member of notorious Westies gang Daniel Goulding (39) of Whitechapel Grove, Clonsilla, Co Dublin, appeared in court on Monday where he. Revenge is in the air after the murder of a west Dublin gang member in a crowded pub, reports Suzanne Breen. [citation needed], In the 1970s, the Irish mob saw an increased threat from the Italian Mafia as the Genovese crime family sought control over the soon to be built Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. O'Connor was later taken under the wing of a veteran southside gang boss. The "Westies", an Irish-American criminal organization that was based predominately in Western Manhattan disintegrated as a functioning unit in the late 1980s and early 1990s. After DeMeo himself was murdered, Coonan's Gambino connection became Daniel Marino, a capo from Brooklyn. This Forum is a load of rubbish. It emerged in Dublin Circuit Court that garda opposed Ms Duffy as surety as they found her "completely unsuitable". And then there is the episode in May when the Westies stole rare birds from a Co Meath zoo. It is believed that O'Connor blamed Goulding for the knife attack at his home. A man who claimed to be a member of the notorious Westies gang told a terrified family he would get the gang to riddle their home with bullets and then petrol-bomb them. Coates, 31, and Sugg, 26, were members of infamous criminal drug gang known as 'The Westies'. In the aftermath of the latest attempt on his life earlier this year, O'Connor gave a foul-mouthed tirade to a newspaper reporter. Garda sources say he is intent on retaliation. Former member of notorious Westies gang jailed for 18 years for shooting at two gardai. Bernard Sugg (23), Stephen's younger brother, was gunned down in 2003. He was found in a Co Offaly field shot in the head, his hands tied behind his back. The Gambinos used them as hired guns, contractors, Morgenthau said, because of their control in this part of the city - Manhattan west of midtown, between Ninth Avenue and the Hudson River. He died in hospital an hour later. if (vars.article.wallType === 'premium') { But there's more: discover your full benefits now. }); Answer (1 of 2): Question: Where are the Westies (Irish Gang) now? Former member of notorious Westies gang jailed for 18 years for shooting at two gardai Daniel Goulding of Whitechapel Grove, Clonsilla, County Dublin pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of. return 'home-delivery'; The Westies are active as far north as Navan. subscriptionFinishDate: '', const subscriberCookieStatus = getCookie(subscriberCookieName) || '{}'; Coonan embraced Grillo after the shooting and ordered the others to shoot Steins corpse, said Beattie, then Richie Ryan shot him, gave me the gun and I shot him.. Spanish police suspect they were killed after crossing another group of Irish gangsters based in Spain. After a shoot-out with garda in Virginia, Co Cavan a week later, 21 weapons - including handguns, rifles and sawn-off shotguns - and more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition were recovered. } else if (Object.keys(p.badge || {}).indexOf('premium') > -1) { The Circuit Criminal Court heard Daniel rang up the man and said: You f***ing black bastard. const subscriberCookie = JSON.parse(getCookie(subscriberCookieName) || '{}'); Tom Wagner's varieties of tomatoes have been a hit among gardeners for years. j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'? Gardeners around the world have been growing these varieties for the past 8-10 years and are sharing their experiences with others. The body of Herman 'The Vermin White (36), who was a member of the notorious west Dublin crime gang the Westies, was found in the segregation area of the jail at 8.30am yesterday. I just started buying a few cans from the off-licence and sitting at home instead. A row broke out over money and turf between Lindsay's Coolock-based gang and two criminal brothers - Andrew 'Madser' and Mark Glennon. Although dismemberment is used for effect, it also facilitates the disposal of bodies. "A Westie was badly hurt in a big shoot-out with the guards in Cavan a few months ago but he got away and a vet removed the bullets," a 12-year-old boy confides. From time to time, the Westies worked for the Gambinos as a contract killer squad. The same year Russell was being sentenced for the samurai attack the Goulding brothers were before the court in relation to the intimidation of a witness who had been shot by an associate of the Gouldings and was due to give evidence in an attempted murder trial. White. They were very intimidating. vars.article.wallVisible = 'false'; guilty to possession of a handgun, car theft, dangerous driving and three counts of burglary in the Malahide area on May 25, 2005. It is believed they were responsible for the drugs-linked murder of Paul Ryan from Raheny in Dublin in April. Tom Brady July 20 2006 12:11 AM THE two missing Westies gangsters, whose bodies were found beside a Spanish warehouse on Tuesday night, were shot dead after double-crossing another Irish drugs. Jason O'Connor sided with the Glennons while David Goulding took Babyface's side and the dispute became increasingly nasty. subscriptionStartDate: '0000-00-00T00:00:00Z', subscriptionStatus: 'Whitelist', meteredAccess: purchase.metered_paywall, Menu Sections. for (let i = 0, parts; (parts = cookies[i] && cookies[i].split('=')); i++) { PO Box 342. const getCookie = key => { Varieties for 2021 ", "Ordinary people stay well clear of the Westies," says another man. Cummiskey had apparently switched sides to the Coonan camp after they both killed and dismembered Patrick "Paddy" Dugan for killing Cummiskey's best friend,[3] but Salerno and Sullivan were not aware of the switch. He was sipping soda water when two gunmen, dressed in black with balaclavas, burst into the Brookwood Inn in west Dublin. About 150 mourners attended his funeral on Thursday. Malcom Flannagan is the last remaining member of the original Westies crew, who survived boss Jimmy Coonan and the indictments and moved out of Hell's Kitchen to Whitestone, Queens. Inside, the worn pine chairs and tables are neatly arranged. It gave a shocking insight into what he thought of the criminals who attempted to murder him. The Westies call themselves after the Irish-American gang which terrorised Hell's Kitchen, New York, in the 1970s and 1980s. Their bodies were found buried under concrete in a warehouse near Alicante in July 2006. childList: true, vars.article.wallVisible = ! He was all right. const gigyaID = getCookie('guid'); A 39-year-old man has been jailed for 18 years for the attempted murder of two garda who were shot after he opened fire from a bedroom window at his home in West Dublin last year. return 'epaper-access'; He claimed they had given him the gun and told him to call to a house in the park. subscriptionStartDate: purchase.granted_by_purchase.original_start_at, Revenge is said to be imminent. const subscriberCookieName = 'subscriber'; As teenagers, they were car thieves along the M50. vars.category.regionals = selectedRegional || ''; That way, there's no chance of trouble. . Picture Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin, Jonathan Dowall (right) and his father Patrick (left). Prosecutors claim the Westies seized the loansharking, drug dealing and extortion rackets on Manhattans West Side in the 1960s and maintained their hold for two decades through a series of gruesome murders. premium_content: false, Aside from their own feud, both O'Connor and Goulding have been involved in other underworld spats. Drug addict Christopher McDonald shouted Jay OConnor before opening fire on Mr Walker at Blanchardstown Pigeon Racing Club car park on Shelerin Road, Clonsilla on 12 June 2015. He admitted placing garbage bags containing Steins body parts in the trunk of a car but did not know where they were taken. The situation intensified further when 'Babyface' Lindsay was involved in a brutal attack on O'Connor in which he sliced him up with a knife after storming his west Dublin home. The group wa. if (Object.keys(p.badge || {}).indexOf('print_monthly') > -1) { Goulding was lucky to escape with his life in the attack at Cherryfield View, Dublin 15. return cookieValue; There is a two-storey shopping centre - though that's something of a misnomer because so many units are closed. Other criminals are uneasy about the unpredictable, vicious nature of their violence. The defense has denied the existence of an organization called the Westies, which even Beattie has said was a name created by the news media for the Irish mob of Manhattans Hells Kitchen section. subscriptionFinishDate: purchase.granted_by_purchase.finish_at, Sugg lived around the corner from the pub in an ordinary house. Daniel Goulding (39) of Whitechapel Grove, Clonsilla, Co Dublin, appeared in court on Monday where he pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of two detective garda at his family home on May 25, 2021. if (isGrantedBy('purchase')) { Devaney and Cummiskey were killed in late 1976, and Kapatos was killed in January 1977. [8] In 1992, a man named Brian Bentley was identified as a member of the Westies and was implicated in a burglary ring responsible for victimizing over 1,000 businesses throughout Manhattan. document.head.append(script); listenForFlipPayEvents(); const subscriberCookieName = 'subscriber'; Both had been shot in the head. "This gang are the leading suspects in the murder investigation," says a Garda source. In July, 2010, White who had spent most of his adult life in jail got an eight-year sentence after pleading guilty to possession of a handgun, car theft and three counts of burglary. } } catch (e) { Williams, Paul. }; The Westies: The thirty year rise and fall of the brutal Irish mob in New York's Hell's Kitchen, known as "The Westies". In 1979 both Coonan and Featherstone were acquitted of the murder of a bartender, Harold Whitehead. Since the convention center was located in Spillane's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood, Spillane refused to allow any involvement by the Italians. The most prominent members have included Eddie McGrath, James Coonan, Mickey Featherstone, James McElroy, and Edward Cummiskey . He was sentenced to nine years in prison in 2009 after pleading guilty to causing serious harm to his victim at The Deputy Mayor Pub, Meakstown, on January 13th, 2008. } Who was the leader of the Westies? let bodyAvailable = false; if (isGrantedBy('corporate_account')) { He said the couple had a bank account that had previously been frozen by the Criminal Assets Bureau and garda had seized 16,000 from him. Some of the kids on the Corduff Estate, where Sugg lived and died, talk of little but the Westies and rival gangs. On the New York Commission, Spillane was still viewed as the Irish Mob boss on the Westside, putting the Javits Convention Center construction site under his control. meteredAccess: purchase.metered_paywall, You will never under stand the mind of shane who are you what is your life wort.i new him grew up with him had fun or when mad as you would put it you tick dont talk about some one you dont no .i tell you someting what is the meaning of life do you no.i will tell u it is not a proper Q.you must say to you slef i am the meening of life you are what you do Count your slef lookey. After surviving the assassination attempt, Goulding was brought to Blanchardstown Hospital for treatment where he was watched over by gardai, as he had been on the run for months. } else if (Object.keys(p.badge || {}).indexOf('print_annual') > -1) { Lyrically, the ten songs on West Side Stories are haunting tone poems about loss and regret and trying to hang in there against . Ms Duffy said she and Goulding paid cash for the car. return cookieData; The gang, who were also involved in armed robberies and extortion, imploded after the murders of all of its leaders.[1][2][3]. A Garda source says Sugg was a typical Westie: "violent, monosyllabic, thick, and full of himself". meteredAccess: purchase.metered_paywall, A newsagent, chippie, and chemist are open. return { This man, who was extremely close to Sugg, returned home for his funeral. DeMeo initially came into contact with Coonan after the latter had murdered and dismembered loan shark Ruby Stein.[6]. script.async = true; Russell gave no reason for the attack but a co-accused claimed the victim had said something to his girlfriends mother which led to the attack. 23. It looks like it has been painted this summer but there's graffiti on the wall near a bullet hole. Photo Credit - Danny Trio / This Thing of Ours Social Club. const cookieData = getSubscriptionStatus(purchase); The Criminal Assets Bureau ordered one gang member, who has since fled the country, to pay 150,000. Gmail. He was arrested two weeks later looking for Jason O'Connor at the Swords Road near Dublin Airport. With this change came a decrease in street crime and a change in leadership. "He didn't deserve to go like that. window.IMP = window.IMP || {}; The community didn't turn out for Sugg's funeral.". // Regionals Container const updateSubscriberCookie = function (purchase) { document.cookie = subscriberCookieName + "= ; path=/;domain=" + domain + ";expires = Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT"; Many people in Corduff haven't a good word to say about them. During the hearing at Dublin District Court, Goulding's former wife Karen Duffy claimed Joyce sold the Northern Ireland-registered car to her and her partner David Goulding for 7,000 and they were the legal owners of the vehicle. After he was intercepted by gardai, White tried to flee the scene in a stolen Mercedes and was involved in a high-speed chase on the M1 motorway. The growing use of cocaine by Ireland's increasingly affluent middle class meant that the gangs were making tens of thousands of euro each week. Discover your full benefits as a Premium subscriber. Spillane was out of the picture, and Coonan was the undisputed boss of Hell's Kitchen. The feud quietened down after OConnor was sentenced to three years in prison in 2019 in relation to a stab attack on a man in a west Dublin pub and threatening to kill two gardai. ","articleBody":"A FORMER gangster who killed himself in Mountjoy Prison left a suicide note for his loved ones, jail insiders have revealed. 'false' : 'true'; Despite a sharp decline in the recruiting pool of poorly educated, inner- city Irish-Americans, the Presidents Commission noted that Irish groups also have survived in Boston and Philadelphia through accommodation with the dominant (Mafia) interests., Connect with the definitive source for global and local news. vars.article.wallVisible = ! A leading member fled to the Continent in January after a gun attack on his home. His barrister Michael Bowman said a psychiatric report on his client had only been received by the defence on Friday. }); let flipPayConfig = { Coonan's main contact was Roy DeMeo. While building up a reputation as the best car thieves in Dublin, O'Connor and Goulding grew close to another major player on the crime scene, Baldoyle-based drugs trafficker David 'Babyface' Lindsay. It was a sensational fabrication of the media in this sad little country and the idiots that read it all and believe it. window.showSubscriberElements) { Garda sources also say they're "not the smartest on the block". userID: '', Aside from these separate issues, the war between O'Connor's and David Goulding has been continuing apace. the Westies became synonymous with the last generation of Irish in the birthplace of the Irish Mob. They're streetwise and cynical, asking visiting journalists how much money they earn. const getBundleValue = function (purchase, purchaseType) { const domain = '.independent.ie'; She said her ex-husband Goulding told her he had won it in poker and she never asked any more questions about it. } Coonan is being held on unrelated murder charges. The Westies are suspected of being behind the murder of Raheny drug dealer Paul Ryan in Co Offaly in April. vars.article.userWall = ! // Push initial dataLayer values into object. 2020 marks both the International Year of the Nurse and Florence Nightingale's 200th birthday, making it the perfect time to recognize and celebrate the brave and selfless nurses all over the world. "They are big fish in west Dublin but overall they're not that huge. [4] Shane Coates (31) and Stephen Sugg (27) went missing in Spain in 2004. The war began when an 18-year old Coonan swore revenge against Spillane, following the Spillane-initiated kidnapping and pistol whipping of Coonan's father. } Now Jason 'Jay' O'Connor (37) and David 'Gully' Goulding (38) hate each other's guts. T he body of Herman 'The Vermin' White (36), who was a member of the notorious west Dublin crime gang - the Westies, was found in the segregation area of the jail at 8.30am yesterday. if (element.tagName === 'BODY' && ! window.showSubscriberElements = true; }; In September 1986 the prosecutor who oversaw Featherstone's conviction told the presiding judge that post-conviction investigation had revealed that Featherstone was innocent. const cookieData = updateSubscriberCookie(event.detail.object); Even before Sugg's death, the Westies were increasingly seen as a dwindling force due to Garda activities and hostility from rival gangs. . David then contacted him and urged him to withdraw the charges and was later sentenced to three years for interfering with the witness who had to go into the witness protection programme as a result of the intimidation but Daniel escaped conviction. Local hatred for the Westies isn't just Garda propaganda. The pair linked up with the Westies gang when they were teenagers and built up reputations 20 years ago as prolific car thieves. They chat as knowledgeably about violence as other children do about Harry Potter. script.type = 'text/javascript'; He had no shown no signs of depressive behaviour and was generally well behaved while serving his sentence and would have been out before the end of the summer, said a source. Beattie, 40, said he participated in the 1977 slaying of loan shark and bookmaker Charles Ruby Stein and in the cleanup and removal of body parts after the 1975 killing of a gang member. Enemies: The Hutch gang . Spillane went to Coonan's father, slapped him around and told him to get his son under control. const listenForFlipPayEvents = function () { } They reached breaking-point when Sugg, who also worked as a doorman in the Brookwood Inn, refused entry to rival gang members twice last week. Just last month, Ms Duffy was in court again when she partially forfeited a 30,000 bail bond to the State because Mark Allen, the friend she had raised it for, had fled the jurisdiction. const element = mutation.target; bundle: 'none', const onMutation = function (mutations) { Beattie said he helped Coonan and two others ambush Stein in a 10th Avenue bar, pulling the curtains and locking the door after Stein entered. } } They're all in. She claimed they were estranged but he was still registered as living at her home," the detective explained. The feud had intensified in December 2004 when there was a gun attack on the home of Charlie Buckethead Russell who was aligned to the Glennons. Even on a bright, sunny day, the Corduff Estate is a depressing place. In May, two innocent girlfriends of Westie gang members were viciously beaten by rivals in a tit-for-tat attack. N ow Jason 'Jay' O'Connor (37) and David 'Gully' Goulding (38) hate. The blue-collar Irish-American community was being displaced by a more affluent and ethnically diverse group of residents. Coonan recruited the infamous DeMeo after a deal was struck between the two. The Westies are about 15 men - almost all in jail or in hiding - who have as many as 100 criminal associates. Beattie said the killers split about $1,000 Stein was carrying, then put Steins body on plastic sheets and dragged it to the rear of the bar, where it was cut up with a serrated kitchen knife. "He won't let this one go. Beattie, who said he joined the gang in 1972, testified that the main defendant, reputed Westies boss James Jimmy Coonan, once said he killed to enhance his reputation because the more bodies you had, the more monstrous you looked.. The gang - which dates back to Owney Killer Madden, owner of the Cotton Club - is a remnant of the huge Irish presence in organized crime in American cities at the turn of the century. Joyce's body was found near Dublin Airport on January 9, 2010, two days after he had last been seen. Coonan James Michael "Jimmy C" Coonan (born December 21, 1946) is an Irish-American mobster and racketeer from Manhattan, New York who, from approximately 1977 to 1988, served as the boss of the Westies organization, an Irish Mob group based in Hell's Kitchen. [citation needed], He was able to add to his neighborhood prominence by marrying Maureen McManus, a daughter of the prestigious McManus family which had run the Midtown Democratic Club since 1905. bundle: bundleValue, [7] He became the boss of the Westies when Kelly went on the lam and was instrumental in the "fixing" of John Gotti's 1986 racketeering trial. "I'll shed no tears over him," says one man after Sugg's murder. return { "They won't see the end of the week.". A 16-year-old tells of lorry-loads of cigarettes and designer goods hijacked by the Westies at gunpoint. const cookies = document.cookie.split('; '); You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. } } Although both Westies leaders were imprisoned in 1980 Coonan on gun possession charges, Featherstone on a federal counterfeiting rap the gambling, loansharking, and union shakedowns continued on the West Side. const bundleValue = getBundleValue(purchase, 'app_purchase'); They are involved in supplying heroin and other drugs in west and north Dublin. const grantedBy = Object.keys(purchase).filter(function (key) { Connect with the definitive source for global and local news. They are now dead and burried and still the papers are making up rubbish, is there no real news in this country?? Facebook. if (event.detail.object.access === true) { meteredAccess: purchase.metered_paywall, Members of the Garda Technical Bureau recover a bullet from a Garda car outside the house on Whitechapel Grove, Blanchardstown. Man claimed to be member of Westies gang and threatened to petrol bomb family's home. All you do is put the word "believed to" or "alleged" in front of it and you think you can write anything. return grantedBy.indexOf(grant) > -1 Some children in the Corduff Estate, like their counterparts in republican and loyalist areas of the North, seem old beyond their years. [8] In April 2005, Andrew Glennon (30) was shot dead after being ambushed by at least four gunmen near his home in Clonee. Leone, also described by law enforcers as a loanshark, was shot to death on Feb. 11, 1984, in Guttenberg, N.J., allegedly because he failed to share proceee James McElroy, 36, of New York City; William Bokun, 29, of North Bergen, N.J.; and Kevin Kelly, 31, of New York City. NEW YORK (AP) _ Irish-American organized crime, which went out with Prohibition in most places, endures in Manhattans grimy Hells Kitchen, where officials say a small group of mobsters is responsible for at least 28 unsolved murders. NEW YORK (AP) _ A former member of the Westies gang says he helped rob and murder a loan shark in a bar in Hells Kitchen but balked when the gangs leader began butchering the corpse with a knife. The standards setting and IP regimes in Russia are open to some manipulation, as evidenced by last y, Growing Tom Wagner's Varieties of Tomatoes: A Gardener's Guide With Tips & Advice, Tom Wagner is a renowned horticulturist who has created several varieties of tomatoes, including the popular "Fort Vancouver Yellow Pear", "Pennsylvania Catchfly", "Santa Anna" and "Sunspot". Daniel Goulding faces trial accused of attempting to murder two Garda during Dublin shootout, Crime World Extra: The notorious criminal behind the Blanchardstown shootout. [12], This article is about an Irish American gang. })(); Premium subscribers enjoy unlimited access to all articles. }; He was released in late 1971 and continued his war with the Westside Gang. He claimed they had given him the gun and told him to call to a house in the park.He was to show the occupants the gun and say: \u0026amp;ldquo;I know you\u0026#039;ve got \u20ac60,000 under the table.\u0026amp;rdquo;He said he never intended to hurt anyone and was not going to point the gun.Judge Delahunt noted he had not violently confronted anyone during any of the offences but was \u0026amp;ldquo;very close to doing so\u0026amp;rdquo;.The pursuit ended when he crashed into a chasing garda car, fracturing the garda\u0026#039;s wrist.White who had 48 previous convictions, was previously a senior member of the Westies Mob who ruthlessly ruled the criminal underworld in Blanchardstown. return { } }; if (isGrantedBy('app_purchase')) { window.dataLayer.push(vars); }).map(function (key) { A court was a told at a previous hearing that Goulding had been receiving psychiatric treatment for a number of years. const eventType = event.detail.event_type; "But they aren't the only ones. "What goes around comes around. new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0], Premium subscribers enjoy unlimited access to all articles. Who We Are. NEW YORK (AP) _ A former member of the Westies gang says he helped rob and murder a loan shark in a bar in Hell's Kitchen but balked when the gang's leader began butchering the corpse with a knife. I could not agree with you more. Goulding's name meanwhile, has come up in court proceedings. Judge Delahunt noted he had not violently confronted anyone during any of the offences but was very close to doing so. O'Connor and Goulding have known each other since they were children in Clonsilla. [11] However, "The Westies" is a title created by members of the press in the mid 1980s to refer to the gang; as pointed out by English, at no point did members of "The Westies" ever adopt the label or refer to themselves as such. 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