THE brother of a drug dealer shot dead in a gangland hit in May 2009 escaped with his life yesterday after a gunman fired up to 10 shots at him.

JUVENILES as young as 14 are being caught by gardaí holding guns and drugs for gang bosses, a senior officer said yesterday.

GREATER numbers of people are willing to use extreme violence when they feel they are being “slighted” in some way, a leading criminologist has said.

TWO men have died after a shooting in inner city Dublin last night.