GARDAÍ suspect a major drug trafficker put up money for the murder of the Corbally brothers after they gave his associate “a hiding” in April.

Four people were being questioned today in connection with the murder of a British man outside a bar in Dublin.

GARDAÍ believe a mass brawl which resulted in the murder of a British criminal was a spontaneous fight “fuelled by drink and cocaine”.

Gardaí are appealing for witnesses to the fatal stabbing of a man in his 40s outside a pub in west Dublin early yesterday morning.