Gardaí to launch gang crime initiative

**noelyf** · 14-01-2010, 06:42 PM

The Emergency Response Unit (ERU) will be deployed at checkpoints in Dublin over the coming weeks as part of a garda initiative against gang-related crime.

The heavily armed officers will be supporting uniformed officers at checkpoints in areas where criminals are suspected of operating.

The Assistant Garda Commissioner in charge of policing Dublin says it is part of a new policing strategy in the city to disrupt the activities of organised criminal gangs.

Michael Feehan says people can expect to see heavily armed officers on the streets over the next few weeks but that they are there to make communities safer and stand up to armed criminals.

They are to be deployed in the Coolock, Ballymun and Finglas areas of Dublin.

**hadmad** · 14-01-2010, 06:55 PM

just seen this on the news lets hope it does some good

**firsthand** · 14-01-2010, 09:32 PM

about time its seen that something is going to be done

**allybird58** · 14-01-2010, 10:44 PM

Thank god Noely.Helicopter is hovering overhead as i type.Frightening what is
happening on the streets.Thanks

**noelyf** · 14-01-2010, 11:07 PM

It has to be done ally, its getting out of control.

The gangs are running the city

**moh** · 14-01-2010, 11:19 PM

Serious stuff up there in Dublin,the killings are getting too regular it needs to be stopped ,i dont mind the scum killing each other but its innocent people like the Anthony Campbells,Shane Geoghegans and many others that have and will lose their lives over these scum.

**noelyf** · 14-01-2010, 11:26 PM

The body of the bloke found shot dead at the back of Dublin Airport was being removed today for the funeral mass & armed ERU were present.

This place is gone

**wheelo** · 14-01-2010, 11:33 PM

gone beyond a joke, but they need to be able to put these people away for a long time when they catch and convict them. witnesses wont testify if they are frightened that they will get out in 6 months or a year.

**moh** · 14-01-2010, 11:33 PM

Courtesy of The Herald

Dublin drugslord 'the Don' ordered the bloody killing spree which has left three men dead within days.

The capital's biggest drugs dealer is increasingly paranoid and now responsible for 11 murders in just four years.

'The Don' first came to prominence when he had his boss, Martin 'Marlo' Hyland, murdered three years ago alongside innocent young plumber Anthony Campbell.

Last night another innocent man was shot -- because he too was a witness.

Disabled Paddy Mooney (58) was gunned down at his home off Pearse Street by a hitman who then murdered his pal Brendan Molyneaux (46).

'The Don's' gang are also suspected of the murder of drug dealer John Paul Joyce, whose frozen body was found in a ditch close to Dublin Airport.

Detectives at Pearse Street arrested four people – three men and a woman – hours after the shooting last night.

Follow-up operations were ongoing in the city today.

A source described last night’s double murder as “absolutely shocking”, adding: “Paddy Mooney was murdered simply because he was in the way. No other reason.

“They shot him and then calmly walked into the flat and shot Molyneaux.”

Gardai stressed that investigations were at an early stage, but said that Molyneaux had threatened a number of Finglas men he accused of being behind the killing of his friend, Paul ‘Famer’ Martin, who was shot dead in the Jolly Toper Pub in Finglas in August 2008.