GARDAÍ are investigating if there is a link between the gangland murder of a 29-year-old man at the weekend and the shooting dead of a drug dealer almost a year ago.

Justice Minister Brian Lenihan has condemned the gangland-style murder of a 29-year-old man in west Dublin last night.

A 29-year-old man has died and another has been injured in a gangland-style gun attack at a house in the Newcastle area of west Dublin last night.