The boy in blue - a retired garda looks back on his decades on the front line

Garda Chief Superintendent Pat Leahy. Picture: Crispin Rodwell

There’s no doubt in Pat Leahy’s mind as to what was the toughest time in his 38 years in An Garda Síochána.

It was those few weeks in 2016, when the Kinahan crime cartel went on an unprecedented murder spree in Dublin’s north east inner city.