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Sat 09 Sep 2005Brothers at war as gangland feuding escalatesGardaí are preparing for further violence as the cycle of vengeance between rival west Dublin gangs intensifies, writes Conor LallyWhen a gunman opened fire in west Dublin on Wednesday a family already in mourning for one lost son was shattered further by the loss of another. As 32-year-old father of one Mark Glennon lay bleeding to death on the pavement outside his home in Hazelwood Crescent, Hartstown, his father Frank, who witnessed the murder, cradled his son as his life slipped away.