Patrick O'Connell

Now this was a coordinated attack, not just between the people who were involved in it, but there was also somebody standing waiting

for the cars to arrive who videotaped them getting out of the car and smashing windows.

It was actually ended up on Facebook and went around at the time.

Now that's one of the incidents that's been looked at as being part of this.

It was a second incident where this man who we believe was the intended target of the arson on New Year's Eve.

He put up another video on Facebook where he said that he called out this rival who apparently is based in the Ballymun area, basically for a straightener, because he'd heard that this man had been badmouthing him, putting around false allegations about him.

So he said he went out there with his sons, but that too ended in violence.

And he said...

that he was actually stabbed in the back and stabbed to a degree that the knife actually came through his back into his chest, narrowly missing his heart.

And he claims that he had to undergo emergency surgery because of that injury.

And then in this video that he put up again on Facebook, he outlined his version of the background to this and claimed that basically he'd been doing bits and bobs in this particular area and that this other individual had been doing bits and bobs there.

Bits and bobs being a little bit of dealing, selling stuff.

Maybe just something as innocent as just odd jobs, you know.

um but he claimed that this other individual had taken umbrage at that and then had started badmouthing him in the local community so he claims that was the reason that he went out there in october um and then there was actually a third incident um that's believed to relate to this feud that occurred on december 21st so this would have been 10 days before the arson attack on new year's eve where um some people went down they smashed up cars

outside this man's house.

But also he says that while his children were inside in the kitchen, inside the front window, that a petrol bomb was thrown and that it landed on the front window.

And if that had gone up, that his children could have been killed.

His children and his family could have been victims.

I suppose the thing is you can't predict the way something like this will go.

Sometimes these things fizzle out, sometimes people shake hands and sometimes it's dealt with quietly amongst the people involved themselves.