Probe into CIRA threats on drug trade

THE Garda Special Branch is investigating claims from the Continuity IRA that it will use “extreme” measures against drug dealers across Dublin and throughout the country.

The investigation follows threats from the breakaway republican group against suspected drug dealers made in a number of phone calls to national newspapers.

The CIRA recently left a sophisticated hoax bomb on the driveway of a house occupied by a drug abuser in the Blanchardstown area of north Dublin.