A top-level intervention group comprising community leaders, senior gardaí, and politicians should be set up to stop the gangland feud from escalating, a long-serving drug activist has said.
Susan Collins, who has run Addiction Response Crumlin for 20 years, said such a structure must deal with the wider issue of intimidation of communities by drug gangs.
Ms Collins, a near neighbour of murdered criminal David Byrne in Crumlin, south Dublin, said she feared it may be too late to stop the feud between the Kinahan and Hutch gangs.
“It’s a bit like Northern Ireland was,” she said. “Someone kills my family, and the only thing you can do is kill someone from theirs. That’s how you keep your credibility.”
A board member of Citywide Drugs Crisis Campaign, Ms Collins called for more gardaí, including community police, and investment in drug and youth projects.
Her call came the day after Mr Byrne, a senior member of the Kinahan drug cartel, was buried and days before Eddie Hutch’s funeral.
Mr Hutch was shot dead at his home in Dublin’s north inner city last Monday week in suspected retaliation for the murder of Mr Byrne in the Regency Hotel the previous Friday.
Source: Cormac O'Keeffe, Irish Examiner, 17/02/16
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