Poverty is not the cause of gangland murders
Individual responsibility is being overlooked in a simplistic narrative
It was the Sunday night before Christmas 2004.
The phone call came through within minutes after 19-year-old Ryan Lee was shot in the right hip and the groin.
Since Eddie Ryan’s murder in the Moose bar in November 2000, the bar staff in the Limerick pubs would ring one another with warnings about the latest development in the gangland feud between the McCarthy-Dundons and the Keane-Collopys. Ryan’s death was the first of 20 ...
