The Wilson Brothers: Dublin’s Most Feared Enforcers Who Sprayed Bullets Into a Packed Pub | Irish Gangland Crime Documentary (Full Story)
On a summer night in 2010, Dublin’s Players’ Lounge pub was ripped apart in a hail of bullets. Four innocent men were left bleeding on the floor — victims of a reckless gangland ambush tied to one of Ireland’s most feared criminal families: the Wilson brothers.
From Ballyfermot to Spain’s Costa del Sol, the Wilsons rose from street enforcers to international hitmen — carrying out brutal executions, enforcing debts for the Kinahan cartel, and terrorising communities with ruthless violence. But their empire, built on fear and blood, would crumble under betrayals, forensic breakthroughs, and a Garda crackdown that left the once-feared family scattered in prison cells across Europe.
🔍 In this deep-dive Irish crime documentary, we uncover:
✅ The Players’ Lounge attack — how innocent bystanders were caught in a gangland crossfire
✅ The Wilsons’ origins in Ballyfermot and ties to Martin “The General” Cahill
✅ Alan Wilson’s role as a feared Kinahan enforcer and the cracks in his reckless loyalty
✅ Keith Wilson’s conviction for the murder of Daniel Gaynor, nailed by a 1-in-a-billion DNA match
✅ Eric Wilson’s international hits, including the Costa del Sol assassination of Dan Smith
✅ John Wilson’s murder and the collapse of the family’s old-school discipline
✅ The failed 2017 plot to assassinate Gary Hanley — and how it finally exposed the Wilsons
✅ How prison stripped the brothers of their power, reducing their legacy to a cautionary tale
Credit to : Crime Pulse