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A TAKEAWAY DRIVER was caught up in a shooting incident Thursday night as she went to deliver food to the home of an individual involved in the escalating west Dublin gang feud.
It is understood a motorcycle carrying two men pulled up beside the delivery driver’s car outside a house in the Ratoath area of Finglas. They fired shots over her car at the house.
The woman, who had not yet left her car to bring the food into the targeted house, managed to escape without injury and there was no damage to the vehicle.
Gardaí are now investigating this incident, as well as a number of other reports of shots fired in the west Dublin area over the past week.
On Wednesday night gardai were alerted to anothet incident connected to the feud at a house on Warrenstown Drive, in Corduff.
A garda spokesperson said it is alleged that two men carrying hammers smashed front windows of house and also vehicle. No one was injured in the incident.
And on Tuesday a loaded semi-automatic shotgun concealed in undergrowth was found in the Sheephill Estate in Blanchardstown. So far this year 17 firearms have been recovered around Finglas and Corduff, all believed to be linked to this tit-for-tat feud.
In recent weeks, the homes and property of innocent brothers, sisters, uncles and cousins of the gangland figures have been targeted by vandals. Family members of the gangs’ main players have all been informed that their safety cannot be guaranteed and they may end up being targeted.
TheJournal.ie understands there will be checkpoints in these areas over the bank holiday weekend and increased armed patrols.
Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan also paid a visit to Blanchardstown garda station yesterday to get an update on the operations targeting the feud and to offer his support.
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Fast feud.
@Gavin Morrissey:
@Gavin Morrissey: I’d take the whole thing with a pinch of salt!
@Gavin Morrissey: Not deliveroo but deliverouch
Love the way you have EXCLUSIVE in the link, like your delighted this happened and you’re first in. An ounce of empathy for the driver maybe?
@Peter Cavey: my first thought too
@Peter Cavey: you mean the driver who escaped without injury? Who was passed by right?
@Peter Cavey: Thank you Peter, many people seem to forget that the delivery driver has a mother who was worried sick when she heard what had happened.
@Shneak: you almost sound disappointed
Bring in the army
@Ger Kingston: finally someone making sense
Ireland.. This is Ireland ffs, and im not even shocked with this constant news of shootings, stabbings, petrol bombs, journalists being killed.. Armed gardai patrols needed in certain areas. Only way
@Chonky Racoon: reasonable sentences (i.e. long, consecutive and without suspended portions) from our cosseted judiciary would also help.
@Joey Navinski: Not to mention proper punctuation and capitalisation. Oh, wait … :)
Big exclusive: SFA happened. Clickbait bull from the journal
The courts are too lenient
Welcome to Ireland
This is what happens when you have sewer rats bags of excrement running around off their bins on coke thinking they are in The Sopranos. We need a cull of this filth roaming our streets.
Deals on wheels….
Beyond a fcuking joke. What has to happen, who has to die for this bollcks to stop
@Coco86: Most likely answer will be nothing will be done until we have another Shane Geoghegan (rip) incident.
Sad but true I fear.
Think it was in ratoath,co.meath
.passed the house fei morn with white tape and guards outside..window taped up… if it was, this reporter is shocking bad!!!
@Robert Fay: lies
@this_is_ireland: what’s lies
Michele, are you sub-contracting out your writing to some guy in India???
@Jordan Salanger: These comments are priceless entertainment on a slow day. God bless the Irish for your wit.
Not sure Warrenstown Drive is in Corduff…then again, how can we trust ANYTHING in an article that contains the following:
“it is alleged that two men carrying hammers smashed front windows of house and also vehicle.”
Thats no job for a lady
@Tony Donoghue: yep but I wonder what food they ordered ? (Just eats ad lol)
@Tony Donoghue: what??
@John Paul: when?
@Tony Donoghue: Are you suggesting in your comment that a woman can’t be a delivery driver?
Ratoath area of Finglas??
Another one heard from dear mother mccree.
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