Estate of fear: Teen drug dealers, feuds... and murder

Fourteen-year-old boys openly dealing drugs, carrying knives, and even guns.

Estate of fear: Teen drug dealers, feuds... and murder

Other children forced to store drugs in their homes and drug bosses brandishing machetes in public.

This is the grim reality of life in Brookfield, Tallaght, according to two community workers in the south-west Dublin suburb where 16-year-old Melanie McCarthy was fatally shot this week.

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