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Blood-soaked clothing at the scene where a man was shot in North Co Dublin Niall Carson/PA

Man shot five times in latest Dublin gangland attack

The man was rushed to hospital and remains in a critical condition.

A MAN IS in a critical condition after being shot multiple times in the latest gangland shooting in Dublin.

The shooting took place in the Dun Emer estate in Lusk, North County Dublin at about 9.50am this morning.

The man (aged 38) was rushed to Beaumont Hospital where his injuries are described as critical.

Sources said that five shots were fired during the incident.

Shooting in Lusk Gardaí at the scene Niall Carson / PA Niall Carson / PA / PA

A Volkswagen Golf was seen leaving the area and was discovered burnt out at Kilhedge Lane in Lusk a short time later.

Gardaí are currently at the scene.

Shooting in Lusk Gardai examine the scene Niall Carson / PA Niall Carson / PA / PA

Anyone who was in or around the Dun Emer or Kilhedge Lane areas this morning or who may have seen anything unusual is asked to contact Balbriggan Garda station on 01 – 8020510, The Garda Confidential Telephone Line 1800 666 111 or any Garda station.

With reporting from Michelle Hennessy and Darragh Murphy

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    Mute Gerry Campbell
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    Jul 5th 2016, 10:18 AM

    Nearly able to just copy and paste these stories now lads.

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    Mute Alan Kelly's Ego
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    Jul 5th 2016, 10:24 AM

    The sad thing is, my kids read these stories nowadays and don’t bat an eyelid. When I was their age, murder was a huge story nationwide, gun murders were almost unheard of except in rare instances

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    Mute Rob Mahony
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    Jul 5th 2016, 10:26 AM

    guess you lived through the troubles without watching/hearing the news. when i was a kid in the 80s there was nothing but murders and bombs.

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    Mute Conall McNally
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    Jul 5th 2016, 10:31 AM

    One of the quietest estates about lots of kids about. Shocking.

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    Mute Alan Kelly's Ego
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    Jul 5th 2016, 10:31 AM

    I suppose that’s true rob but you didn’t hear about it unless you sat down to watch the rte news at 6pm every evening which as a teenager in the 80′s I always found something more interesting to be at. Nowadays you can’t escape these stories, be it social media, facebook, twitter etc etc.

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    Mute Rob Mahony
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    Jul 5th 2016, 10:35 AM

    ah here…that response was too reasonable for alan kellys ego…

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    Mute Zx5vZulB
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    Jul 5th 2016, 10:39 AM

    What’s going on now with those 2 gangs should not be compared to the utter horror and savagery of what happened in the north. Ireland is relatively tranquil compared to our very recent history.

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    Jul 5th 2016, 10:39 AM

    I haven’t had my morning coffee yet, I’ll be back to old obnoxious self by early afternoon

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    Mute Jon Mackey
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    Jul 5th 2016, 10:41 AM

    That’s weird. Ireland has always had periods of bloodshed since the Vikings.

    What year were you born?

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    Mute Liam O'Reilly
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    Jul 5th 2016, 11:12 AM

    Addressing the real issues there Tony, good lad.

    #wacko

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    Mute Cosmo Kramer
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    Jul 5th 2016, 11:13 AM

    Gerry what has two drug gangs going around killing each other got to do with SF? Do you know the history of the troubles. You do realise that the troubles started when Catholic people wanted equal rights and started peaceful protests and marches. In response Loyalists with the help of the Police started to murder and burn Catholics out of their homes.. That’s how and why the Provos ever existed..

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    Mute Patrick Gough
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    Jul 5th 2016, 11:20 AM

    On the same subject tony I have an ingrown toenail

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    Jul 5th 2016, 11:30 AM

    I never look up tony because, frankly, there is nothing on earth above my ego. BOOM, the coffee has kicked in

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    Mute Rob Mills
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    Jul 5th 2016, 11:42 AM

    I ain’t a SF or ra supporter but I think if I and my family had of been threatened and shot at for years, all for a religion, god only knows what I would have done.

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    Mute Sully
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    Jul 5th 2016, 11:43 AM

    I think Sinn Fein would give the gangs a tougher response than this soft weak political correctness government

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    Jul 5th 2016, 11:43 AM

    Bin=bomb….. Probably in a bin, but anyway….

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    Jul 5th 2016, 11:54 AM

    The first policeman, soldier and civilian were all killed by loyalists, but you blame a non existent IRA for starting the troubles? Myopia at its best..

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    Mute Cosmo Kramer
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    Jul 5th 2016, 12:02 PM

    Gerry I never brought up anything about The Troubles.. But it’s the likes of yourself who seem to forget that the modern troubles started when Loyalists with the help of the British state were involved in ethnic cleansing.. Also it has since come out that the British State also helped plant bombs in Dublin and Monaghan that murdered 34 people on the one day, the biggest atrocity of the troubles. Yet people like you seem to forget all that.. Why don’t you ask your local FG TD why their party closed down the Garda investigation after only six months. Ask them why they helped cover it up..

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    Jul 5th 2016, 12:26 PM

    Gerry, are you anything to Gregory? It’s just that you spout the same absolute tosh that he does. Gerrymandered border? Blame it on the ra. Fascist police force? Blame it on the ra. Informers allowed kill at will? Blame it on the ra. Triumphalist sectarian marches though areas where they’re not wanted? Blame it on the ra. State sponsored terrorism? Blame it on the ra. Civil rights marchers murdered? Blame it on the ra.

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    Jul 5th 2016, 1:00 PM

    @Rob, simple – move your family 50 miles South and live in relative peace !

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    Jul 5th 2016, 1:17 PM

    Yup twasnt you, I’m driving a crane here and it’s hard to see, anyway, all I can say is believe the BS if you sleep better.

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    Jul 5th 2016, 1:20 PM

    Riddled”? Riddled? Why are you goin’ ’round riddlin’ people? Ten or twenty bullets when the one will do?

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    Mute Gerry Campbell
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    Jul 5th 2016, 1:34 PM

    Plant a bin in a street full of innocent people , getting on with their lives, knowing full well it would derail a peaceful solution, can we blame that one on your Ra Andrew.

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    Jul 5th 2016, 1:46 PM

    Your actually wrong Cosmo . You obviously need a history lesson what a silly comment to make .

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    Jul 5th 2016, 1:48 PM

    Wrong again your obviously a SF leaflet pusher . And haven’t a clue about history in general . A knowall know nothing .

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    Jul 5th 2016, 1:54 PM

    Kittieboom. Where is he wrong please elaborarte.

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    Jul 5th 2016, 2:04 PM

    Kittieboom.. Care to elaborate? You seem to concur with the ‘fenian rebellion’ theory about the onset of conflict in the north?

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    Jul 5th 2016, 2:35 PM

    Ray Gordon lads etc .. We all know exactly how the troubles started . Well those of us intelligent enough and paid attention when facts dates times etc were spouted actually listened . I know my Islands history and if you guys don’t well that’s your own problem . In China they call that TOUGH S_IT .

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    Jul 5th 2016, 2:48 PM

    Kittleboom what I said is fact.. You haven’t actually said anything at all.. You tell us how I’m wrong with facts of your own.. Civil rights marchers were beaten off the streets. Then Loyalists started to murder and burn Catholics out of their homes. Loyalists also started to burn down Catholic Churches. It was out of all this that the Provos were born because the Nationalist Community needed somebody to protect them from state sponsored ethnic cleansing. Now tell me with facts how any of that is wrong..

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    Jul 5th 2016, 3:11 PM

    @cosmo The Troubles stated long before any civil rights marchers were beaten and Loyalists and Catholics were burning and murdering each other long before ” THE PROVOS” were about . Is that factual enough for you . Ethnic cleansing get a grip man .

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    Jul 5th 2016, 3:29 PM

    Kittieboom. Facts kittie facts do you have any?

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    Jul 5th 2016, 3:35 PM

    Kittieboom, please have a review of Irish history and how & why the “troubles” started because you are living in cloud cuckoo land.

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    Jul 5th 2016, 3:38 PM

    Gerry, bins in busy streets are a great idea, encouraging people not to litter. I fail to see how that can derail a peaceful solution! Ps not “my” ra Gerry. I deplore violence.

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    Jul 5th 2016, 3:58 PM

    @Frank please God pick up a book or just keep pushing the leaflets . Your ignorance is proof enough your brainwashed like the rest of the “PROVOS” .

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    Jul 5th 2016, 4:09 PM

    Kittieboom. I don’t know what makes you stupid but it really works.

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    Jul 5th 2016, 4:16 PM

    Comical ali the second here in the form of kitty boom.. Please inform us of this ‘secret history’ you know of?! Jeez, you’d make Willie frazer blush..

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    Jul 5th 2016, 4:27 PM

    Gordon, straight from Seamus Mallons lips, I’d say he knows a bit mire anointed than you and I , the had a deal , a good one almost brokered peacefully , but your gangster friends got wind of it , planted that bomb( not bin) and got what they wanted , all out slaughter..

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    Jul 5th 2016, 4:53 PM

    Think you’ll find the uvf bombs in 1966 predate your theory. But then in your mind, paranoid orange fascism could go no wrong..

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    Jul 5th 2016, 6:10 PM

    Jesus Gordon, you will be going back to the battle of Aughrim to eek a bit of solace for your staunch unconditional love of cold blooded killers, that may console you, but disgusting drivel to the loved ones murdered by thugs , in more recent times……

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    Jul 5th 2016, 6:51 PM

    @gordon deluded you are it’s all wrong

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    Jul 5th 2016, 6:55 PM

    @gordon 6 to 1 half a dozen their all terrorist animals but a history lesson is needed for all the SF leaflet pushers regarding the beginning of the “TROUBLES ” . It’s pretty sad to be honest.

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    Mute Raymond Power
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    Jul 5th 2016, 7:52 PM

    Hundreds being killed by the British army,loyalist paramilitaries and the IRA/INLA does not equate to the above story as you are well aware of.For 95 % living in the Republic. .there was no direct experience of such violence.

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    Jul 5th 2016, 11:00 AM

    Gangland members should really stop sitting in their cars

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    Jul 5th 2016, 10:40 AM

    Between the shootings and the corruption it is getting like Mexico but without the sun.

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    Jul 5th 2016, 11:20 AM

    And the Mexicans…

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    Mute Gerry Campbell
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    Jul 5th 2016, 11:54 AM

    It’s been like Mexico for a long time , John .

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    Mute Ronan Sexton
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    Jul 5th 2016, 12:19 PM

    Bloody Mexicans, coming over here, shooting our yobs.

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    Mute Alan Kelly's Ego
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    Jul 5th 2016, 10:18 AM

    And so it continues

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    Mute Jon Mackey
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    Jul 5th 2016, 10:40 AM

    Is there many left at this stage?

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    Mute Emer Caffrey
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    Jul 5th 2016, 10:56 AM

    undertaking is recession proof in Dublin at the moment

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    Mute Dave Kelly
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    Jul 5th 2016, 11:59 AM

    And the hitman business..

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    Jul 5th 2016, 10:21 AM

    This number 10 so far this year?

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    Mute Declan Duggan
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    Jul 5th 2016, 10:20 AM

    Its getting like Los Angeles in the 80s

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    Jul 5th 2016, 10:28 AM

    Maybe this one isn’t gang related…maybe an angry jealous wife shot her husband…Psychs!

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    Mute Alan Currie
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    Jul 5th 2016, 10:43 AM

    Not enough big hair for that comparison.

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    Mute Zx5vZulB
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    Jul 5th 2016, 10:44 AM

    Not really. This hyperbole of comparing Dublin to los Angeles is such nonsense.

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    Mute james comiskey
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    Jul 5th 2016, 10:46 AM

    Burnt out Car would suggest otherwise

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    Jul 5th 2016, 1:47 PM

    Declan. I dont see any stunnimg women in hot pants rollerblading down sheriff street. Nothing like KA in the 80s.

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    Jul 5th 2016, 3:37 PM

    lol

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    Mute Lorraine Tait
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    Jul 5th 2016, 11:04 AM

    Someone’s son, perhaps a father, brother, friend…..it’s scary how immune we have become to the suffering caused by these killings. My sympathies to his family whoever they may be.

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    Mute Gerry Fitz
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    Jul 5th 2016, 10:47 AM

    More to follow…

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    Jul 5th 2016, 10:58 AM

    Ironically true

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    Jul 5th 2016, 10:51 AM

    Lovely part of the country

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    Jul 5th 2016, 10:19 AM

    Man has been shot dead in about an hour

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    Jul 5th 2016, 11:18 AM

    You mean there’s going to be a shooting shortly !

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    Jul 5th 2016, 12:56 PM

    11 17 21 23 30 42 BN 9 Jaysus I think those number are at least worth one line

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    Jul 5th 2016, 11:15 AM

    Jaysus it’s like Lebanon in the 80′s…. :)

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    Jul 5th 2016, 11:20 AM

    I suppose Lusk is along the ‘bay route’… I’ll get my coat.

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    Jul 5th 2016, 11:24 AM

    Have yourself a thumbs up for that. :)

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    Jul 5th 2016, 10:46 AM

    I know where they get the guns but what about the bullets??

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    Jul 5th 2016, 11:05 AM

    Do those guys you know of only supply guns, but not bullets?

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    Mute Jason Culligan
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    Jul 5th 2016, 1:18 PM

    The factory responsible for supplying just the US Military with ammunition makes 2 billion rounds every year. The most common civilian round, the .22LR, is produced for the civilian market at a rate of about 4.2 billion rounds per year.

    With so many billions of relatively small pieces of metal and powder being made every year across the globe, it’s literally impossible to track and trace every one of them. That doesn’t mean ammunition is cheap on the black market but it’s not exactly scarce.

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    Jul 5th 2016, 1:54 PM

    Jason…does the modern 5.56 AK use the NATO 5.56?

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    Jul 5th 2016, 12:41 PM

    The Irish government needs to do something or does the gun make the law?

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    Jul 5th 2016, 1:20 PM

    Technically speaking we do owe our independence to stolen rifles.

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    Jul 5th 2016, 1:31 PM

    They should make it illegal to kill people.

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    Jul 5th 2016, 3:10 PM

    Is this the story about traveller discrimination?

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    Mute F.O.R.A.
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    Jul 5th 2016, 12:38 PM

    How many people have been shot in Dublin in the last year?

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    Jul 5th 2016, 5:26 PM

    10 is half time 15 days rest time then 2nd half starts

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    Jul 5th 2016, 12:57 PM

    Lebanon, Mexico los angeles,Dublin to hell with this multicultural lark

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    Mute Christopher Millar
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    Jul 29th 2016, 3:03 PM

    Who gives a toss let them at it

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    Mute Cathriona Flood
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    Jul 5th 2016, 11:37 PM

    When is it all going to end.

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    Jul 5th 2016, 1:28 PM

    Wacker

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    Mute Niall Fish Bradley
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    Jul 7th 2016, 3:07 AM

    Balbriggan Gardai are appealing to the public for information *as per usual. . Perhaps if they got of their holes and done a bit of real police work (not baby sitting the installation of water meters) they could do their own jobs instead of continuously asking the public for help..

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    Mute John Scott
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    Jul 6th 2016, 8:58 AM

    Why do repoters tke face shots of our Police people just a question.

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