Armed gardaí try to stop gang war from escalating

ELITE armed garda officers are patrolling a Dublin suburb amid fears of further bloodshed in a spiralling gang war.

The Emergency Response Unit and local armed detectives are on the streets of the Drimnagh-Crumlin areas of south Dublin.

The move comes after a man was hit a number of times in a drive-by shooting in Knocknarea Road, Drimnagh, early on Monday evening.