Gardaí await gang funerals as reporters receive threats

Gardaí are monitoring an estimated 80 members of rival feuding gangs as they brace themselves for two funerals next week.

It has also emerged two crime reporters have been notified by gardaí of a threat to their safety from organised criminals.

The threat to journalists attached to Independent News and Media (INM) comes on the 20th anniversary this June of the murder of Sunday Independent journalist Veronica Guerin.