Man shot to death as Dublin gangland feud returns

AP ^ | 4/14/2016

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… Witnesses told Irish media Thursday’s victim was standing outside Noctor’s Pub on Sheriff Street when a gunman shot him in the head at close range and escaped on foot.

The inner-city district is a power base for one of Ireland’s best-known underworld figures, Gerry “The Monk” Hutch, who is involved in a bloody showdown with Christy Kinahan, an Irish drug-trafficking kingpin based in Spain. …

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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_IRELAND_GANGLAND_KILLING?SITE=MYPSP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-04-14-10-26-54

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But I thought guns were illegal in Ireland??? /sarcasm

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I once lived in that neighborhood too, when I was really small; but on Seville Place, a block or two away, and for some reason the Sheriff Street trouble never reached there. My maternal grandmother lived there until her death.