Gardaí have raised threat level twice over Kinihan-Hutch feud

There is an acute threat of violence hanging over part of Dublin this weekend from the Kinahan-Hutch feud as gardaí prepare a security plan for the first anniversary of the murder of Kinahan ‘lieutenant’ David Byrne.

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald yesterday said that heightened policing would “continue this weekend” and told the feuding gangs: “No one is above the law. It may take time, but you will not win.”

Garda intelligence has assessed that the threat level has jumped two stages since December’s murder of Noel Kirwan, a long-time friend of Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch, at the hands of the Kinahan cartel.