Irish Water contractors are not installing meters in the homes of protestors after striking secret deals.

Gardaí are investigating if yesterday’s gangland murder on Dublin’s northside is related to a violent feud between major drug gangs, which have tentacles here and abroad.

Anti-Irish Water momentum reached new heights yesterday as protesters forced it to abandon a meeting with public representatives and later demonstrated in a town where three householders were arrested for blocking meters installations.

Gardaí are bracing themselves for fresh gangland violence with the burial of slain criminal Gerard Kavanagh.

Gardaí were yesterday liaising with their counterparts in Spain to try to establish a motive and who was responsible for the shooting of notorious Dublin gangland figure Gerard Kavanagh in a bar in Marbella.