Since then he has been a member of Martin Cahill's criminal gang, and jailed for numerous offences including breaking a police officer's jaw.
[2] In summer 1983 Cahill and Foley were key figures in a ten member gang who took staff hostage and stole £2 million worth of jewels.
[2] Paddy Shanahan, a criminal from County Kildare approached Foley about stealing paintings from the collection of Sir Alfred Beit.
[4] An attack on 26 January 2008 was the fourth time Foley has been shot; in 1995 outside Fatima Mansions, in 1996 by the convicted murderer Brian Meehan, and in 2000 as he left a swimming pool in Terenure.
[1] In 2017 a brother of Seán Dunne was awarded €10,000 by a High Court judge as a result of intimidation of him and his family by a "debt collection agency" run by Foley.