A decision is due shortly on whether gardaí will be given the go-ahead to proceed with the prosecution of the suspected killers of a Cork drug dealer.

WHILE six gangland killings in Cork remain unsolved, gardaí are continuing to pursue the perpetrators and, in one case have lodged a file with the DPP, are “consolidating” another, and hoping for a breakthrough in a third.

Seven people control drugs distribution in Cork, writes Sean O’Riordan

THE murder of Gerard “Topper” Staunton is only the fifth gangland killing to occur in Cork, but the fifth nationally this month.