GARDAÍ investigating the brutal stabbing of a mother-of-three yesterday began checking the whereabouts of key people at the time of the knife attack.

DETECTIVES continued to question two people last night in connection with the murder of man in a Dublin pub.

DETECTIVES were last night confident of tracking down a cold-blooded killer who sat in a pub for at least 45 minutes looking at his victim prior to shooting him dead.

GARDAÍ fear further bloodshed in a gangland feud after the murder of a young man yesterday.

Gardaí have begun a murder hunt following the death a 24-year-old man in a gangland-style shooting in inner city Dublin.

A FATHER-OF-SIX was beaten to death after answering an early evening knock on the door of his home, detectives believe.

A 23-YEAR-OLD man shot dead in a Dublin pub on Wednesday night is thought to have received a warning around a week ago from drug dealers he may have owed money to.

A FATHER of nine, singled out and shot dead as he played a game of pool in a pub, may have been killed after he was involved in a fist fight with a member of a criminal gang.