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THERE IS no doubt that there is a problem about gangland violence in this State. There was another grim reminder of the scale of the problem facing our law enforcement machinery last Saturday night with the gunning down of Wayne Doherty in west Dublin. This ruthless attack mirrors the murder of Shane Geoghegan and shows that the problem of gun crime and the danger it poses to innocent people is not confined to Limerick.