Ken Foy

Previously, like...

In some of these cases, some of these people are actually interrelated and stuff like that, as can often be the way.

But an assault happened and one particular side took umbrage and it quickly escalated.

You refer to the, there was the photo obviously of the young guy, a teenager as well.

He was lucky to survive his life.

He suffered pellet.

injuries from a shotgun blast, fairly horrific injuries as well.

A couple of people, a couple of males have been arrested for the attempted murder of him in the meantime.

So for a couple of weeks, and there was people coming over from England and stuff like that, there was nearly an incident every night in terms of caravans being burnt out.

There was a lot of threats.

The guards were kind of struggling to get a handle on it.

But thankfully, it seems to have pretty much died down for now.

I will stress for now.

Specialised mediators, I think they're actually paid by the state.

Yeah.

worked with Gardaí initially and then individually with protagonists and I suppose important family members involved in it, which means there hasn't been a violent incident in it for probably six weeks.

Yeah.

But at its height, there had been a number, like there'd been well over 20 incidences of arson and shots being discharged and so on.

They do, but going back, I suppose, to, it's kind of, since the Traveller feud ended and this feud, this separate, for want of a better word, crack cocaine feud, has got our attention a lot more, but there has been some, apart from what we outlined there about the grenade attack, there's been some very serious other incidents.

Like, again,