Murder, AK-47s and Drug Wars: Irish Election Just Livened Up
- Opponents attack Sinn Fein's plan to axe no-jury trial
- Hotel assault and revenge murder turn election focus on crime
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Minutes from the gleaming buildings of Dublin’s International Financial Services Centre, armed police patrolled inner-city streets festooned with election posters this week, trying to tamp down an eruption of gangland violence.
Across the city, in the plush surroundings of the Royal Irish Academy, Sinn Fein’s manifesto launch was dominated by questions about the party’s crime policy. Days earlier a gang used AK-47 assault rifles to attack a boxing weigh-in, in a raid which carried paramilitary overtones.