Dark days ahead for communities, the gardaí, and now the fourth estate

As the Kinahan-Hutch feud rages, gangland intimidation and violence will get worse, writes Cormac O’Keeffe

THE sinister threat to two crime reporters is part of a menacing culture of gang intimid- ation plaguing certain communities.

It’s a culture local drug workers, and some gardaí, say has only worsened, as the next generation of criminals resort to ever more extreme levels of violence to climb to the top and stay there.