{"id":2312,"date":"2005-10-22T18:39:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-22T22:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2312"},"modified":"2005-10-22T18:39:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-22T22:39:00","slug":"gta-ireland-colostomy-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2005\/10\/22\/18\/39\/gta-ireland-colostomy-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"GTA Ireland – Colostomy Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ireland’s criminal gangs are more dangerous and unpredictable than ever … Their lives are fast and short, their violence is said to be almost psychopathic. Some who lost kidneys in shoot-outs continued to wage war on their rivals unworried by their colostomy bags, pumping themselves with steroids to compensate for ill health. Ireland has the third highest cocaine use in Europe. Seizures of the drug have gone up 800% in the last five years … Irish people, once among the poorest in Europe, are now second richest in the world, according to the United Nations; with so much money sloshing around, it seemed inevitable that an high-octane criminal culture would develop. But although the tiger brought jobs, Ireland now has one of the widest gaps between rich and poor in the developed world.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ireland’s criminal gangs are more dangerous and unpredictable than ever … Their lives are fast and short, their violence is said to be almost psychopathic. Some who lost kidneys in shoot-outs continued to wage...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t