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They were top dogs in the underworld;

But in 2012 Alan Ryan and Eamon Kelly found out no one was untouchable.

When the pair were shot down close to their own homes, it blew open a void in Ireland's organised crime network.
And gangland always fills a void the only way it knows how - with more brutal violence.

In death, Eamon Kelly and Alan Ryan lie within a few metres of each other in Fingal cemetery.
Gardai now fear the coming year will be every bit as bloody as the last 12 months, which saw 16 more bodies carted off to Gangland's Boot Hill.

The Sunday World was watching in 2012 as Ireland's real Love/Hate played out on the streets of our cities, towns and villages.

Last January we eerily pre-dicted who would be the main players in the violence and who needed to watch their backs.

Now Ireland's leading crime reporters reveal the bloody struggle that is about to be unleashed on our streets to fill the shoes of and Ryan.