Ken Foy
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was as a result of shrapnel and stuff like that coming up from the cement from the path and the roadway when the grenade actually exploded.
That would be the typical age profile of the protagonist involved in this.
In fact, the older ones would be actually in their early 20s.
So it's been kind of going on for almost two years now, but it seems to be just kind of getting worse.
Yeah.
As you said, it's kind of geographically based, the feud.
And it's essentially a lot of it, it's about street level drugs turf.
Yeah.
crack cocaine, prescription tablets, and so on.
All kinds of drugs, really, heroin and cannabis, but at a street level.
So in terms of the two factions, they're kind of an equal amount of numbers.
There's about 15 or slightly more core members on each side.
And then what's described as kind of around 10 runners for these core members.
So you're talking about all in all, there's about 50 members.
If you take two sides, there's 50 or a bit more very young males involved in this feuding, which is actually just getting worse.
Not a huge area and all of these people and their families going back before that would all know each other.
Yeah.
And like is what is common in all these feuds, sorry, feuds that you describe,
including in Drogheda and so on.
Social media is obviously playing a major role in terms of people being goaded, threats being issued and all the rest that comes with that.