Families caught up in the Drogheda feud are experiencing “severe trauma” and struggling to find the necessary help, a support group has said.

The funeral of murdered teenager Keane Mulready-Woods takes place in Drogheda today.

Locals will gather for a rally in Drogheda this afternoon.

Families and communities affected by intimidation over drug debts in Drogheda are “gripped by fear” and afraid to speak out, a support group has said.

A march against criminal activity in Drogheda in Co Louth is due to take place tomorrow (Sat) with the Mayor of the town, Cllr Paul Bell, stressing that the escalation in violence continues to cause "misery" in the community.

Louth County Council has confirmed it is engaged in a tender process for reinstatement of CCTV for the Moneymore area in Drogheda.

This was a nightmare campaign day for the outgoing Fine Gael-led government as-on the hour-the real horror of crime in Ireland was emerging and threatened to engulf the start of the election race.

Gardaí are speaking to residents in Rathmullan Park in Drogheda, following the murder of Keane Mulready-Woods.

Anna Quigley is so frustrated after listening to people on the radio talking about the murder and dismemberment of Keane Mulready-Woods that she struggles to speak.

Gardaí have confirmed human remains found in Dublin are those of 17-year-old Keane Mulready-Woods who was missing from his home in Co Louth.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has pledged that gardaí will have the resources to bring people to justice for the macabre murder of a young man whose body parts were found in Dublin.

John Myles, who will be out of work for three weeks following the shooting on the Bridge of Peace, told his local radio station LMFM that he had nothing to do with crime or drugs.

Darren Clarke has been located safe and well.

It is understood that the shooting is linked to the ongoing gang feud in the town.

A man in his 20s has been arrested in Drogheda for allegedly threatening to kill a man last year.

Gardaí in Drogheda have finished their Day of Action there with 18 arrests.

The men, aged 18 and 22, were arrested in the Drogheda area yesterday.

A number of people have escaped unharmed after the house they were in was shot at in Drogheda in Co Louth overnight.

A man who has acted as a drug runner for one of the gangs in the Drogheda feud was said the people involved are "scumbags" and "very dangerous".

Gardaí have seized around €42,000 worth of drugs in Drogheda today.

Gardaí have confirmed that three men who were arrested yesterday have been charged in relation to the ongoing Drogheda feud.

A Starbucks employee who saved a woman’s life by spotting the signs that she could be having a stroke, has said “don’t be afraid to talk to people you don’t know”.

Labour Senator Ged Nash is calling on the Data Protection Commissioner to investigate the discovery of hospital patient notes in a garden in Drogheda earlier this week.

Garda Commissioner Drew Harris has ordered the elite ERU (Emergency Response Unit) into Drogheda as part of a crackdown on increasingly violent turf wars between feuding drug gangs.

The armed support unit in Co Louth is “stretched to the limit” as it battles to cover the escalating gang feud in Drogheda, rampaging ATM gangs and patrolling the border as far as Co Cavan.

The lives of public and uniformed gardaí are being put at risk from the firepower of criminal gangs and the New IRA, because Garda armed units are regionally based and can be scores of kilometres from an evolving serious incident.

Drogheda needs at least 25 more gardaí to combat the escalating gang feud says local Fine Gael TD Fergus O’Dowd.

Two houses have been attacked in Drogheda, in what's believed to be part of an ongoing criminal feud.

Gardaí in Drogheda are investigating after a young man suffered an apparent gunshot wound to his knee late last night.

Two masked men, armed with pipe-like instruments, threatened security officers and stole a cash box.

A massive fire has broken out at an abandoned four-storey building in Co. Louth.

Gardaí are appealing for information in relation to an armed robbery that occurred at an arcade in the West Street area of Drogheda in Co Louth yesterday.

A man in his 30s who was in the house at the time was uninjured.

Gardaí are seeking the public's help in tracing the whereabouts of 16-year-old Samuel Milosiu who is missing from the Drogheda area since January 10.

A 37-year-old is due in court tomorrow charged in connection with the discovery of cannabis herb valued at €940,000 outside Drogheda.

Coca Cola is to outsource some of the work at its Drogheda plant.

A planned search was conducted at an address in the Drogheda area at approximately 9am this morning.

Gardaí are investigating a suspected acid attack on a man in his 30s in Co. Louth.

A man is due in court this morning charged in relation to a hit-and-run in Ardee, Co Louth in October.

Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan has said all threats against members of An Garda Síochána are “utterly unacceptable” and has appealed to the public to help tackle a “lethal” gang feud in Co Louth.