Number of gangland murders increases fivefold this year

There has been a fivefold jump in gangland murders this year, according to Garda estimates.

The Kinahan-Hutch feud accounted for at least half of the 15 gang murders.

Before last week’s murder of Noel Kirwan in west Dublin, the feud had claimed seven lives so far, six of them at the hands of the Kinahan cartel.