Guards — The Biggest Crime Gang in Ireland

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Terence Wheelock was murdered, Maurice McCabe was smeared, the McBrearty family were framed. They were all victims of the biggest criminal gang in Ireland — the Guards. This important book looks at the history of Policing in Ireland and outlines alternative ways of dealing with problems working class communities face — like anti-social behaviour and drug addiction — without reinforcing a neoliberal state that acts as a community destroying machine.

Author James O’Toole grew up in Fatima Mansions council flats in Dublin’s South West inner city and later moved up to Crumlin. He uses this lived experience, combined with extensive reading and research, to argue for alternatives to q policing approach to social problems.