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TWO MEN HAVE been injured in a shooting incident in south Dublin.
The two men were shot but their condition is unknown.
The incident took place around the South Circular Road area of Dublin. A boxing event was taking place at the nearby National Stadium.
It is understood the shooting is linked to the ongoing Hutch-Kinahan feud.
Stadium management has declined to make a statement to TheJournal.ie.
The shooting began outside the stadium when the target fled down the South Circular Road towards Griffith College. An attacker followed targets down St Alban’s Road and fired shots there.
A search of the area is under way, with two attackers believed to have been involved.
Two cars have been found burnt out in the city – a Mercedes in Dunsink and a Lexus in the Ferndale area.
Some of the attendees from outside Dublin couldn’t take their cars out of the cordoned area so have to wait for gardaí to finish with the scene before going home.
Reporting from Christine Bohan, Gavan Casey, Paul Hosford, Garreth MacNamee, Sean Murray and Sinead O’Carroll
Does it ever end?
@Paul J. Redmond: Helen Lovejoy “won’t someone please think on the children “
@Paul J. Redmond:
That horror of a “journalist’ Williams will be furious that he was beaten to the story
@Christy Nolan: leave them all kill each other, the countless lives they’ve ruined or taken they don’t deserve anything else.
@Christy Nolan: yeah , although you would have to wonder how a 12 line story is credited to be reporting for 6 journalists ??????
@Dave Hammond: simply a case of safety in numbers. If gangs like this see a single journalist constantly reporting on them they could be targeted. It’s a common practice around the world for journalists to do this unless the single journalist in question wants his or her name in lights as someone who blew the lid etc. smart thing to do by the journal
@Paul Hughes: they don’t think or feel emotions, robots are becoming more advanced than the likes of these mammals Gif: https://media3.giphy.com/media/l3vRhaxVcQ1i0CZlC/200w_d.gif?cid=e069de5c5a25c49556654c7063fbec73
@Arfer Daly: Don’t forget the MP7’s
@Jonathan Nolan: No it’s not. If they wanted to avoid particular names being associated with reporting, they could have just left the byline at the end as ‘The Journal.ie Team’.
@Jonathan Nolan: I understand your point but beg to differ actually. I have worked in media both in Ireland and internationally for 20+ years including at the Sunday Independent at the time when our brave journalist Veronica Guerin was tragically murdered by drug gangs. If a media outlet wishes to refrain from putting journalists names on breaking news stories that is perfectly normal practice. Which I respectfully suggest is what should have happened here. It is no big deal really I was replying to a comment that mentioned that Paul Williams would be unhappy with the Journal breaking the story. It was a 12 line breaking news story and should just have been posted as Journal Breaking news , My point still stands – listing 6 specific journalists was unnecessary ( including if they have ay fears of targeting ) -in that case names should just have been left off altogether.
If politicians were being targeted , I bet that the Gardai would have a handle on this very quickly .
We have allowed drug dealers to decide who lives and dies .
It’s madness , 83 year old woman in a coma because of burglars , who more than likely came from the republic .
Why do we allow this to happen .
@Ken Hayden: Good point, Northern Ireland has no burglars after all
@Stephen Desmond: I’m sure they do , but we seem to have a special breed of burglar who target elderly isolated people .
And we have allowed this , gangs who just roam the country taking people’s life savings , and maybe their lives .
These are organized gangs .
@Ken Hayden: so only 1 side of the border have that kind of breed?
@Ronan Rafferty: If you can show me an example of the same type of thing coming from the north , I’ll pull my head in .
@Ken Hayden: so obviously the Gardaí couldn’t respond to the 83 year old woman so it’s the PSNI you have an issue with?
@Jonathan O’ Connor: What I have an issue with is , gangs who think they can just rob elderly people of their lives , dignity and money , and expect us to accept that .
@Ken Hayden:
Well said ken..our laws are a joke ..
The criminals have more rights than the victims
@Larry Whelan: yep, even the ones with 20 previous convictions..
@Ken Hayden: Umm… https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/belfast-news/psni-treating-burglary-elderly-womans-14197223
@Ken Hayden: Gardai have foiled 44 hits in 2017. Guess they are doing nothing eh?
@Daniel Dunne: ? Umm … ? So do you think the Last street the car was seen on is the secret hideout of thèse thugs ?
@Paul: Fair enough , I haven’t read the link , I assume you have .
But does it mention 44 cases before the courts on attempted murder ?
@Ken Hayden: There have always been burglars that targeted the elderly, in every country
@Rachael Ball: Go on , I’m listening .
@Ronan Rafferty: It was stated that one of two cars used had wexford number plates.
@Ken Hayden: because we’re all standing back & watching, while our politicians run our country into the ground for the everyday people! The 99%
@Rachael Ball: Maybe there has , what was the punishment (before) , I’m sure it wasn’t a slap on the wrist .
There are people who are predators , there are normal everyday people , and there are victims .
I’ll be straight here , if 4 men came into my house now to rob me , I wouldn’t stand a chance .
But I’d expect the law to exact revenge .
@Ken Hayden: And I’m not a frail 83 year old woman.
@Ken Hayden: yes I’ve read it, and quoted the assistant commissioner for Dublin
@Patabake Kennedy: what’s your point?
@Ken Hayden: because repeating offenders make money for our legal eagles. Judges won’t give proper sentences because turkeys don’t vote for Christmas. Punish violent criminals.
@Paul: those are Garda numbers they also carried out 2million drink driving tests oh wait eh no they didn’t they just made up that number. Sorry but can’t believe a word that comes from the guards. Look at want happens to an honest guard and the cost in legal fees and tribunals because 1 told the truth.
@John Doe: compulsory consecutive jail terms would go a long way towards getting these bottom feeders off the streets
Two men injured…..then
A man has been injured…….then
Two men have been injured….then
It is understood one other man has been injured…..
Who writes this stuff???
@James Lawlor: 5 reporters named at bottom of the ‘report’. This is journalism ?!
@James Lawlor: It took 6 writers to write that detailed account
@Rob Battigan: 6!
@Rob Battigan: too many cooks eh.
@James Lawlor: it’s a media race just to get something out first so they have to write anything just to beat the other news platforms
@Jonathan O’ Connor: The copy and paste machine doesn’t work for breaking news.
They have settled on two but still tell us three times in the first three lines.
@Rob Battigan: They all got the original tweet at the same time apparently.
@James Lawlor: its a Friday night just a journalist enjoying the wknd
@Altoir: Maybe they were all at the boxing match.
Hutch associate apparently. Very one sided affair
@Yorkie1892: blow it up ref
@Yorkie1892: really? It’s the kinihans who are tied in to the boxing scene . . . Either way it’s gathering pace again.. life is cheap
@Sean og S: they are both avid boxing fans
one of the hutch family was or is due to box there tomorrow ..
6 journalists reporting on a shooting with very little detail apart from “it’s associated with the feud”. Keep up the good work. Surely Leo’s mortgage affairs need a bit more coverage instead.
@TP Simms: investigate journalism doesn’t exist anymore, I wouldn’t even refer to these people as journalists, all you’ve to do is follow numerous sources on the likes of twitter, take snippets from each ‘source’ and rehash an article and hey presto it’s breaking news.
@Jonny: Well, you get what you pay for.
just let them at it.Yobs
@Michael cunnane: the problem with letting them at it is the potential for innocent people to get caught in the crossfire. Imagine the bloodbath on our streets if the gardai just let them at it.
@Maria Hickey-Fagan: Student caught up in it.
Was he shot in the ring.?
@Wayne Scales: hopefully a few gangsters were shot in the ring-the might not be too anxious to box again.
Time for a RICO based European law. Its time to go after the heads if these cartels. They are not in the country but a European wide branch of europol enforcing warrents is needed.
Start legalising drugs too. Take the money away from them
@phil: hmm do you honestly think the criminal gangs would go away because it would be officially illegal for them to deal drugs ?
Despite loads of witnesses, no one witnessed anything
Boxing has a lot to answer for.
The 5 individuals who put their names to this should be ashamed enough to resign and find other forms of employment. Disgraceful and cheap and tacky.
Atrocious excuse for journalism.
What is going on in our city police know who they are but don’t seem to care
That’s what’s known as tit for tat behavior.
@Joe oshaughnessy: it’s mostly just tit, to be fair
@Lurfic: I agree
@Joe oshaughnessy: not really if it’s a hutch family member ..
@Siobhán Ni Mhurchú: so am I suppose to be afraid to say what I think about the situation we live in a democracy freedom speech is a great thing.
@Joe oshaughnessy: That’s right , that’s the thing about freedom of speech (which we don’t actually have) she’s allowed to reply to your comment .
@Joe oshaughnessy: you alright there?
@Ken Hayden: of course she is I didn’t say she wasn’t allowed did I.
@Joe oshaughnessy: so why pick me out over the other comments to throw your remark at?
@Siobhán Ni Mhurchú: I didn’t pick you or anybody else out too throw anything at. I’m genuinely sorry if you feel I did.
@Joe oshaughnessy: fair enough but your comment says otherwise ..
@Siobhán Ni Mhurchú: I never meant to upset or annoy you or anyone else please except my apologies.
@Joe oshaughnessy: apology accepted , Joe …
@Siobhán Ni Mhurchú: thank you Siobhan. All the best.
I hope no one lost their life …. what’s with shootings in Dublin lately … be careful.
It was a morrocan teenager that was killed. It is not classified as terrorism. The journal reporters need to do more research.
@Francis Glynn: that was in Amsterdam
@Francis Glynn: you’d want to research how to spell Moroccan.
Crazy
Didn’t actually realise those sounds that sounded like gunshots were gunshots.
Didn’t realise as I walked past that something had happened.
Didn’t realise sitting in my car that the police cars passing were heading towards said gunshots.
I think I might be stupid?
It was three people shot
If this attempted murder is related to the ongoing feud betwern Kinehan and Hutch then it began over an area in which to sell drugs. In this “area” the customers were/are recreational drug users. Is this the kind of society we want? THINK BEFORE YOU BUY
Intern the lot of them!
It’s not a shock anymore, what is the government doing??.
@Peter Kelly: what do you propose they do?
@Conor Sweeney: police events where members of the Hutch extended family are due to box for starters. Watch Hutch family houses. How difficult can that be? There isn’t a million of them knocking around at this stage. €160m has been spent on overtime yet they’re still dropping like flies. Money well spent?
@Sean @114: I’m no expert but I would say for certain that’s extremely difficulty considering the resources at their disposal. Also,I’m sure the Guards have thwarted and disrupted more shootings and murders than we will ever know.
Well most people all over the country know the National Stadium
@Emma Mc Donnell: sorry there’s always one
@Emma Mc Donnell: where’s that again
Build more prisons, deal out proper sentences and lock them up. Ideal solution? No but better than innocent people getting caught in the crossfire. You cannot have people with dozens of convictions walking the streets. Enough chances have been given.
Ferndale is in Wexford did you mean Farnham thats closer to dunsink in finglas makes more sense
@Keith Heffernan: there’s Ferndale in finglas east . Top end of johnstown park
What sort of journalist is reporting? Is it One man or two that was shit , Opening headline states 2 then days one then follows on with 2 , maybe it’s actually 3 !
@Shelly Enright: shit. Hahaha
Let them shoot each other, then arrest the last one and throw away the key. Game over.
Is it gonna take an innocent or some one of higher grandeur to be killed by these idiots before the gards actually become pro active about this?
How can they be allowed to run riot around the city?
@Nicholas Kelly there’s already been innocent victims of this fued..
@Nicholas Kelly: 44 hits prevented in 2017
Meant Shot not shit !!
@Shelly Enright: oh shit
@Shelly Enright: Probably right either way.
ON AND ON AND ON AND ON
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