How Irish police tackled Dublin's drug gangs after fake SWAT team besieged hotel during bitter feud

Ana Maria Rus

A decade on from Ireland's most notorious gangland hit, Irish police say they have had "unprecedented" success in tackling Dublin's drug gangs - and ending a bitter feud that claimed at least 18 lives. In 2025, the Gardai recorded a total of zero gangland gun murders "for the first time in modern times" - believed to be at least 30 years. Ninety-eight members of the two most infamous organised crime groups - the Hutch and Kinahan gangs - have been jailed, and 51 attempted hits have been foiled.