Drug dealers offer to write off €10,000 for shooting gardaí

DRUG gangs are offering to write off addicts’ debts of up to €10,000 if they fire at detectives in what is claimed is a very sinister escalation in organised criminals’ battle with gardaí.

Gardaí have had death threats posted against them on the internet, and a bullet was left on the windscreen of a garda’s private car as a warning to back off.

These claims were made yesterday as the Garda Representative Association (GRA) — which represents 10,500 rank and file gardaí — held its annual conference in Westport, Co Mayo.