gang warfare in ireland

A new and deadly phase in Ireland's vicious mafia gang wars has dawned this week.
The emergence overnight of a gang styling itself An Garda Siochana has shocked the nation.
An Garda Siochana, composed almost entirely of police officers, and known colloquially as The Nyards, has threatened to plunge the country into lawlessness and terror if the government refuses to pay them extortion money.
"We want money and we want it now," said Nyards spokesman Garda Sean Payrise. "It doesn't matter if our contract as police officers includes a promise that we will not go on strike. Who is going to force us to keep our promises? We're the Nyards. Nobody but nobody ----s with the Rah. I mean the Nyards."