Gardaí are appealing for the public's assistance in connection with an investigation into the murder of Niall Mulvihill on January 23.

THE gangland killing of a major heroin dealer in Dublin’s south inner city may have been over a drug deal gone wrong or a row over territory, sources said yesterday.

Gardai were today hunting for two men after the second criminal gangland-style shooting in Dublin in less than a week.

Gardai in Dublin have named the 40-year-old man who was shot dead in south Dublin last night as Raymond Sallinger, from Eugene Street.

TAXI drivers attached to the country’s largest trade union are to begin a rolling campaign to protest against what they claim are the disastrous consequences of deregulation.

JUSTICE Minister Michael McDowell is being sued by a teenage girl who was sexually assaulted by the man at the centre of the X Case while he was working as a taxi driver.

IN little over a month, Dublin’s north inner city has witnessed five violent deaths. .

THE Government has serious questions to answer over its failure to impose controls on the issuing of taxi licences to gangland figures in the aftermath of its headlong rush to deregulate the industry.

GARDAÍ investigating the murder of ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ underworld figure Niall Mulvihill suspect he may have been killed by local criminals over a deal gone wrong.

Taxi drivers represented by SIPTU are considering taking legal action against the State in order to speed up the appointment of a taxi regulator.

The latest incidents involving taxi drivers has raised questions about the type of people entering the industry.

The gangland figure shot dead in Dublin city centre overnight was Niall Mulvihill.