crime world Episode 74: 'Mr Flashy' and the gun-toting teens terrorising the streets of Dublin

Warring drug gangs brazenly attack each other in broad daylight as a community lives in fear

Nicola Tallant, Sunday World investigations editor

Nicola Tallant

February 16 2022 06:00 AM

Innocent women flee their homes in fear of grenade attacks, a business shuts its doors terrorised by teenage thugs, while a community lives in fear of warring drug gangs brazenly attacking each other in broad daylight with hammers and wheel braces and displaying their gunfire on social media.

The scenes playing out in a Dublin suburb seem more at home in Mexico, yet for the hard-working people of Finglas this is the reality - as a gang headed up by a young dealer known as 'Mr Flashy' goes to war with three rival outfits in a terrifying feud.

Nicola Tallant chats with Crime Correspondent Ken Foy who tells of the rising tensions in an underworld populated by gun-toting teenage boys directed by mega-rich cocaine dealers.