Feuding gangs in Ballymun in Dublin are holding locals to ransom, according to a local councillor.<\/p>\n
Local People Before Profit councillor Conor Reddy said there is escalating fear in the community after a series of attacks.<\/p>\n
It comes after an 11 year-old picked up and fired a gun earlier this week, which had been discarded in bushes.<\/p>\n
Councillor Reddy said a gun was also found near a playground in Ballymun last week.<\/p>\n
Reddy told Newstalk: “It’s a very small minority, the community we’re talking about involved in this feud… but the entire community in Ballymun have been held to ransom by it all.<\/p>\n
“So there is an escalating fear and I think we really need to see a turning point in all of this. It’s been running for months and we need to see a stop to it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feuding gangs in Ballymun in Dublin are holding locals to ransom, according to a local councillor. Local People…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-425133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}