I too hadn't read about this but having checked out the Irish Times today it would appear to have been quite a well planned and slick operation and I compliment the Gardai in their response, these Dublin gangs are a real terror to the surrounding towns and villages and were well overdue a good thumping.
Like I say I have no problem with the Gards offing a couple of North Dublin gurriers but sometimes I contrast the way these things are handled North or South. The Gardai have always adopted a robust approach to gunmen, they are always backed up by the Irish Government and rightly so. However when the police in the North whack out even worse bandits and you know who I'm talking about, the Irish Government are always at the head of the queue expressing concern and demanding enquiries, a bit hard to take sometimes.
that's an interesting double standard. When the old RUC lost an officer to IRA murderers it was in the news but then the IRA killed a Garda - it was THE NEWS.
Granted this was in the Republic - and what happens in the Republic is more important to folks in the Republic than what happens in Northern Ireland, but I always remember my own reaction (as a child) and the country's reaction being so more profound when a Garda was killed compared to an RUC officer.
I know hinesight is 20/20 but I always thought that the Irish Govt should have Unilaterally taken on and taken apart the IRA and reclaimed Irishness from those thugs and terrorists.
Bertie is a bollocks - he waffles on the traitors that are Sinn Fein/IRA - a far bigger threat to our country than some gang of Dublin skangers - I would rather skangers than Provos any day!!!!!