Embattled Taoiseach Enda Kenny has told party colleagues who are calling for him to step down as leader to “concentrate on their duties”, instead of plotting to overthrow him.

A drug dealer who was shot dead in a pub early today is the brother of a gangland figure murdered three years ago.

Gardaí in Dublin are investigating the murder of a suspected drug dealer and an innocent workman at a house in the north of the city this morning.