Body count rises as two tribes continue to wage war

THE discovery yesterday of a body partly buried in open ground in Limerick is almost certainly the 10th tit-for-tat murder in the continuing feud between two rival drugs gangs.

Feuding gang members have also been involved in three, and possibly five, other murders since 2000, mainly over drugs.

It is clear, however, that the internecine warfare and reprisal killings are born as much out of a deep pathological hatred as out of money and drugs.