YARDIE DRUGS GANG FEARS

Dundon drug mob recruits Jamaicans to retake old turf

- DAVID RALEIGH

GARDAI fear the McCarthy-Dundon gang have enlisted the help of the notorious Yardies in a bid to take back their old turf.

It comes as officers in Limerick recovered a major haul of suspected cocaine during raids on properties in the gang's strongholds of Hyde Road and Ballinacurra Weston on Wednesday.

Dozens of gardai attached to the Armed Support Unit as well as the divisional drugs unit swarmed on a number of properties where the drugs and a cocaine press machine were seized.

The Dundon-McCarthy gang were once the most feared criminal network in Ireland until the emergence of Dublin's Kinahan crime group.

Many of its senior members are serving life for a number of murders.

Former members and associates testified against the leaders of the gang which led to gardai breaking up the Dundon network. Now it's believed a young associate of the Dundon mob has recruited the Yardie gangsters who have roots in Jamaica but are mostly based across the UK.