The gangland feud that led to the murder of Brandon Ledwidge

The funeral of Brandon Ledwidge saw masked youths on motorbikes mount pavements in Finglas this week as a village was brought to a standstill.
The 23-year-old murder victim who was shot dead at his front door earlier this month was laid to rest in a steel American-style casket with groups of young men wearing t-shirts designed with the dead man's face.
Ledwidge is understood to have been killed after rowing with a local gangland figure and ignoring orders around drug dealing.
Nicola speaks to Niall Donald about the brutal death of a street dealer and about the problems for communities living at the coal face of the crack cocaine epidemic.
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  • @fermzy
    @fermzy7 ай бұрын

    Talk about government corruption, political policing, and the fact that we have No media

  • @ROC14088
    @ROC140887 ай бұрын

    For two people working, writing and nosing into this "gangland" they honestly don't have a clue

  • @tracyt2824
    @tracyt28247 ай бұрын

    Nicola"s lack of compassion and common sense is astounding. If she thinks kids benefit from going into care, she is mistaken. Why isnt she writing/waffling about the amount of care kids that are "missing" & trafficked for sexual exploitation?

  • @JK-jz2yn

    @JK-jz2yn

    7 ай бұрын

    By the black axe cult who are prolific in Ireland

  • @hammersmashedspud4345

    @hammersmashedspud4345

    7 ай бұрын

    It's not really astounding. it's a ying Yang pairing. She asks questions that maybe Joe Public is asking

  • @GG-kf8ox

    @GG-kf8ox

    7 ай бұрын

    Well said 👏, t

  • @Meena-io2us

    @Meena-io2us

    7 ай бұрын

    Agreed. State Care is a total failure. Pumping out kids at 18yrs, traumatised, full of rage, resentment, self harm issues, eating disorders, behavioural problems etc. She doesn't know what she is talking about.

  • @Dinocharlie16

    @Dinocharlie16

    6 ай бұрын

    She specialises in the gangland topic

  • @paulsavage9268
    @paulsavage92687 ай бұрын

    The motorbikes has always been at the masses ..iam 41 and I was from barry drive .. All rest in peace who died in finglas

  • @JohnCambridge-gw3ox
    @JohnCambridge-gw3ox7 ай бұрын

    Its not just in Dublin heroin is absolutely rampant in cork city

  • @Neckoya

    @Neckoya

    4 ай бұрын

    Heroin is old news in dublin

  • @scottkennedy4611
    @scottkennedy46117 ай бұрын

    Am a missing something here,tuned in to watch/here the build up to this murder and gang feud about,it,not a thing about it,load shit about funerals n motor bikes etc,click baiting ,one off your poorer shows guys,

  • @polly6336
    @polly63367 ай бұрын

    Interesting discussion, thanks both (and Clodagh behind the scenes). I agree with Niall's approach to this. We can have some compassion for both the lads that get caught up in this as well as their victims. He made some very good points, particularly that two things can be true at once. I also agree with him regarding the police approach to the recent riots. Stay safe, kids.

  • @Daithi_mk
    @Daithi_mk7 ай бұрын

    "It's corrosive to society ", no, it is society. They don't exist outside of it. They're part of it, we helped create it. You just got lucky where you were born, else you'd be part of it. People should really be educated before having opinions on things this complex. I don't think you understand how powerful the pull of influence and community is. There's no escaping it. I like this fella though, he's very intelligent.

  • @microwavehead1517

    @microwavehead1517

    7 ай бұрын

    The criminal elements are a minority in Finglas, therefore your point isn't valid.

  • @michaeloconnor9809
    @michaeloconnor98097 ай бұрын

    How many of these kids cannot read or write and the same question re people in prison.

  • @williebox
    @williebox7 ай бұрын

    its well seen nicola has no kids to say should their kids not be taken, fair play to niall who has kids to point out the trauma that would be inflicted on them, as he says the states does not give a damn about our kids.

  • @anfeariontach

    @anfeariontach

    7 ай бұрын

    didn't know that. thought Nicola was a mother.

  • @Weebay_213
    @Weebay_2137 ай бұрын

    Yeah Nicola, an addict is always on the lookout for a schoolbag for his next white half garden. Specially if it's a power puff girls bag...and if there's pencils, Jesus you're talking big bucks there now

  • @tulligman
    @tulligman7 ай бұрын

    Very snobbish view of how these people mourn the death of their friends and family.Messing with someones funeral no matter how distasteful it is to middle/upper class people is a line you just don't cross.

  • @Nickleboy

    @Nickleboy

    7 ай бұрын

    It’s not distasteful, it’s illegal. Majority of those bikes are uninsured as they’re not road worthy. Whether it’s culture or not it’s against the law.

  • @justjenny1972

    @justjenny1972

    7 ай бұрын

    @@Nickleboy thats how him and his mates lived UNLAWFULLY if thats wat they wanted who are anyone to interfere not many live by the law anymore in this fucked up country

  • @tulligman

    @tulligman

    7 ай бұрын

    @@Nickleboy It’s a funereal procession ffs.Technically people walking on the middle of the street carrying a coffin is illegal as they are holding up traffic.Do you think the Gardai should go in there with riot gear and the water cannon the nordies sent down to suppress the “far right”?That would not end well fwiw.I am a biker (fully taxed,insured and never in trouble with the law in my life) and when one of our own time has come it is often the case where the funeral procession would be followed by a group of friends and family on their bikes who shared good times in the saddle together.There might even be the odd wheelie or burnout which may seem dangerous to people that are not part of that world but is not really to someone that knows what they are doing.Let people send off their own they way they want and the state can take a day off on a persons final journey.Most Gardai know this without been told and will quietly facilitate the procession by going ahead and directing traffic and remaining respectful which is the right thing to do.

  • @jackwild8019
    @jackwild80197 ай бұрын

    There was also trouble at the Mater Hospital 🏥 last night related to this funeral...the cycle of hate goes on...23 is so young to die...life is so fragile and death so permanent. What a Christmas 🎄 in Barry Avenue. A strange world we live in. Born to die. Mors vincit omnia

  • @El_terrible1985

    @El_terrible1985

    7 ай бұрын

    What happened at the matter

  • @justjenny1972

    @justjenny1972

    7 ай бұрын

    From way I heard there was trouble in pub after funeral And rivals clashed at Hosp after few that were injured were brought

  • @El_terrible1985

    @El_terrible1985

    7 ай бұрын

    @@justjenny1972 👍

  • @Meena-io2us
    @Meena-io2us7 ай бұрын

    Enjoyed listening to Niall. Really wish Nicola would let him finish his point. Shes always butting in. So annoying.

  • @tommurphy3544
    @tommurphy35446 ай бұрын

    Motor bikes at funerals has been very popular in uk years and now moved to Ireland

  • @1984petrus1
    @1984petrus17 ай бұрын

    Niall's top is bigger than the desk

  • @atrockbottomandshootingfor9079
    @atrockbottomandshootingfor90797 ай бұрын

    King 👑 Niall is taking over

  • @VelcroKittie
    @VelcroKittie7 ай бұрын

    She keeps interrupting him. Does she not look back at her videos and realise this? It comes across dreadfully. Let the man at least finish one sentence 😂

  • @user-mb5tj2zp4z
    @user-mb5tj2zp4z6 ай бұрын

    Why won't you put my cemented on I'm only saying Mr flashe is only looking after his men if drugs were legal there wouldn't be any of this shite and there would be more money for the government to fight real crime 😊

  • @alangrace8628
    @alangrace86287 ай бұрын

    Nicola, maybe do a course in sociology it might give you a better insite into an area I presumed you were an expert in...Surely you must have been made aware of the impact of socio-economic deprivation and its correlation with crime when ou were doing your degree in criminology ??? Surely???!!!

  • @Daithi_mk
    @Daithi_mk7 ай бұрын

    Do they understand the finality? Probably better than you do! What a ridiculous question. Very clearly an us from them mentality.

  • @seamus9750
    @seamus97507 ай бұрын

    Gurriers !!!

  • @keithburke652

    @keithburke652

    7 ай бұрын

    Gurriers be Gurrying

  • @aaronmcc8430
    @aaronmcc84307 ай бұрын

    What gang was behind this hit?

  • @Weebay_213
    @Weebay_2137 ай бұрын

    Niall is the only real Talent here...oh haha Tallant

  • @rassawhelan6045
    @rassawhelan60456 ай бұрын

    Sad carry on. People destroying the community from which the spring from. Ywt still those who walk behind them will justify with some nonsense.

  • @ellamcellone8466
    @ellamcellone84667 ай бұрын

    When are you s going to talk about the biggest gang in the country the government

  • @daveselbow9128
    @daveselbow91287 ай бұрын

    when the police can't get to a property quick, like you point out, they sometimes resort to buying a few deals from the location with an undercover officer, or a statement from an informant, & the charge is then actual supply, which is a home-run hit for the authorities

  • @thecarpetman7687
    @thecarpetman76877 ай бұрын

    Give thugs an inch and they’ll take a yard….it’s as true now as it was at any other stage in history and the only remedy for that is force…the nicey nicey approach only works to a point but when the money rolls in…the thought of doing an honest days work is beyond these people

  • @user-xm7tt1df1c
    @user-xm7tt1df1c7 ай бұрын

    Topical of talent no comparison end of the day 23 year old man gun down and his mother seen it

  • @wolfstaley4092
    @wolfstaley40927 ай бұрын

    GW day is coming

  • @sicksquid3258
    @sicksquid32587 ай бұрын

    The church? They abandoned their flock during the recent 'health emergency' so are now a total irrelevance.

  • @johnny6166
    @johnny61667 ай бұрын

    "Cocaine Cowboys". 😂. What is it with Irish crime journalists not being able to come up with an original title. This is worse that Paul William's "Badfellas"

  • @JamieLamb-ft6io
    @JamieLamb-ft6io7 ай бұрын

    WTF

  • @sandrapower3250
    @sandrapower32506 ай бұрын

    Bought the book didnt read it yet id say the same old stories anyway

  • @MorePlausible
    @MorePlausible7 ай бұрын

    Nicola’s botox is very well done. It suits her! I wonder where she gets treatment.

  • @luther-pd5uy
    @luther-pd5uy7 ай бұрын

    didn't know I could stream on youtube

  • @fakereality3792
    @fakereality37927 ай бұрын

    You lost me Nicola after your display on RTÉ this week. A bloody disgrace. Unsubscribed !!

  • @JK-jz2yn

    @JK-jz2yn

    7 ай бұрын

    She wasn’t any better when she denied any foreign cults coming in controlling trafficking, prostitution, online scams, fraud, money laundering and ritual gruesome murders with knives and machetes

  • @anfeariontach

    @anfeariontach

    7 ай бұрын

    what did she say

  • @pauljones8218

    @pauljones8218

    5 ай бұрын

    @@anfeariontach said her fanny was itching a lot and the cream didnt seem to clear it up

  • @t-bonewhufc6429
    @t-bonewhufc64292 ай бұрын

    This guy make me sick he’s representing these drug dealing scumbags as the victims !

  • @SuperBlinding
    @SuperBlinding7 ай бұрын

    Law and Order seems Optional in the Republic of Ireland these days ! Back to being a Banana Republic !

  • @liamo6889
    @liamo68897 ай бұрын

    Garda didn't do anything Who had tax and insurance for these scramblers No effort made to protect citizens Probably use this to introduce more laws that won't be policed

  • @parkgate-ub1ey
    @parkgate-ub1ey6 ай бұрын

    Does your woman , ever had a bad experience, or maybe she likes it too much

  • @AC-bb3lh
    @AC-bb3lh7 ай бұрын

    That nicola one talking out of her arse.

  • @johnnowlan9963
    @johnnowlan99637 ай бұрын

    Who be next to die before Christmas 🎄🎁🤔

  • @user-yu4hd6tf8f
    @user-yu4hd6tf8f7 ай бұрын

    Masks utes sorry but I just thought of my cousin vinnie, sorry youths.

  • @ellamcellone8466
    @ellamcellone84667 ай бұрын

    Nicola no talent

  • @realrawrebel8637
    @realrawrebel86377 ай бұрын

    Young man lost his life due to violence. He is allowed the best send off so as anyone else Why is there people like karen cough cough (nicola) Jealous of a young mans funeral

  • @realrawrebel8637

    @realrawrebel8637

    7 ай бұрын

    Wait I know why she is jealous because she knows she will never get a good send off like brandons Rip

  • @huzcer

    @huzcer

    Ай бұрын

    Fr Hyland then said: “You reap what you sow. If you sow badness, you get badness back. If you sow goodness, you get goodness back.”.