The latest victim of gangland factions in the capital has been named locally as Colm Owens from Finglas in north Dublin.

A YOUNG father-of-one, who was an associate of a north Dublin drugs gang, was gunned down at his workplace yesterday afternoon in what is being investigated as a personal dispute.

Fears were mounting tonight of an escalation in a bloody gangland feud after a known criminal associate was gunned down at his workplace in daylight hours.