The number of gangland linked murders has risen significantly in 2012.
According to the Irish Indpendent fourteen murders this year were linked to crime gangs while that figure stood at four for the same period in 2011.
In total 51 people were killed this year in comparison to 38 for the same period last year.
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Tom Brady of the Irish Independent, says this years figure is not that high in comparison to previous years:
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