Regarded a watershed moment in Irish crime, the murder of Veronica Guerin, focused attention on organised crime like never before.
The period immediately after the crime journalist’s killing, on June 26th, 1996, was characterised by a clampdown on gangs, and the establishment of the Criminal Assets Bureau. The agency took multimillion-euro settlements from many leading gang leaders, but others relocated abroad, out of its reach. Some of them have been supplying the Irish drug market ever since.
At home the gangs they supplied benefited hugely from the higher disposable incomes of the boom years, with unprecedented numbers using so-called recreational drugs.
That money brought rivalry and feuding, and what has emerged is an underworld cycle where most gangs rise and fall within 10 years.
One group still bucks that trend: the international syndicate led by the Spain-based Dubliner Christy Kinahan, which remains the biggest supplier of drugs to Irish buyers.
The 10-year cycle has seen many of the leading figures on the domestic crimescene murdered. Several others have been jailed. Our story begins as individuals wrapped up in the nightmare that is Dublin Gangland.
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'The Northside Remembers' is a gritty crime drama based on Dublin's criminal underworld. It intends to depict the drug addiction, squalor and violence of organised crime that has grown in post-boom Ireland. Looking for four or five active and literate players to undertake a journey into the depths of Ireland's modern gangland. Mature content will follow so I ask all participants to be 18+.
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