How drug wars in Ireland led to the murder and dismemberment of a teenage boy

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The remains of teenager Keane Mulready-Woods, brutally killed and dismembered, exposes Ireland's changing underworld of drug-dealing gangs that are recruiting boys to carry out acts of violence.

Keane Mulready-Woods should have been celebrating his 18th birthday this week. But the Irish teenager's life came to an end last month, in a murder so brutal in nature that it has drawn comparisons with TV show"Narcos."

Irish politicians have descended on Drogheda in the weeks leading up to Saturday's general election, amid growing concerns over crime and gang violence. "Today, we march to say enough is enough," she said to a crowd at the rally, according to video posted on Twitter."Enough under-resourcing, enough short-term quick fixes, enough of Drogheda being treated as a second-class town."

Current Taoiseach, or prime minister, Leo Varadkar joined the rally and earlier visited Drogheda after Mulready-Woods' murder, vowing to"make this town safe again" and to have those responsible jailed. A three-tier hierarchy has evolved among Ireland's gangs, with"a lower tier of highly disadvantaged young people generally involved in bullying, assaulting, stealing, vandalizing and spreading fear on behalf of the network," the report says.

The problem is, a lot of the information being spread is fake. Police had to call on people to stop sharing a video purporting to show the murder of Mulready-Woods . O'Dowd, the lawmaker, pointed out that employment, not unemployment, was playing a greater role in the violence. Homes there have been petrol-bombed, burned out and raided by police. Rivals send threatening messages to gang members through graffiti on the estate's walls.

 

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