30-year-old family alliance driving gangland feud to new low

THE alliance between the McCarthy and Dundon families goes back to the early 1970s, when one of the McCarthy family from Ballincurra Weston married Kenneth Dundon whose family came from Ballynanty, across the city.

After moving to Britain, they had five sons.

As the sons got into trouble the family gradually began to drift back to Limerick and that move was completed by 2000.