GARDAÍ have up to five days to question two men arrested in connection with the gangland-style killing of a Cork drug dealer.

GARDAÍ investigating the brutal gangland-style shooting of a man in Cork last August have identified the murder weapon.

THE hitman who gunned down a suspected drug dealer in the hallway of his rented home in Co Cork probably used a silencer.

THE family of the man who was gunned down in Cork last week are well-respected and have the support of their local community, a priest told mourners yesterday.

THE man gunned down in a gangland-style hit in Carrigaline last week will be buried in a private ceremony today.

UP to €100,000 in protection money may have been demanded from an unemployed father-of-two in the days before he was gunned down outside his rented home in Co Cork on Wednesday.

GARDAÍ say that the killer of a 36-year-old suspected drug dealer may have followed him for days before firing a number of shots into him at almost point-blank range in the hallway of his rented home.

A man gunned down in the hallway of his Cork home was shot twice in the side before his killer fired again into his head, tests have revealed.

Gardaí are expected to launch a murder inquiry this morning following the shooting dead of a father of two in Co Cork yesterday.

GARDAÍ are examining the possibility that a 36-year-old man gunned down in the hallway of his house may have been the victim of a gangland hitman.

THE man who was gunned down in the hallway of his home in Co Cork yesterday was known to gardaí for his involvement in the drugs trade.

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