Eamonn Cumberton, 32, of Mountjoy Street, Dublin 7, had denied the murder of Mr Barr (35) in the Sunset House pub in Dublin’s north inner city on April 25, 2016.

Gardaí suspect dissident republican Michael Barr was shot dead because it was believed by the Kinahan cartel he provided a “safe house” to one of the gunmen in the Regency Hotel attack.

Fears are growing among local residents after a suspected dissident republican was murdered in his pub in the first of two gun killings in Dublin within hours of each other last night.

A man closely linked to the attack on the Regency Hotel in which David Byrne, a key member of the Kinahan gang, was murdered, was shot dead last night in the latest murder linked to the Kinahan-Hutch gangland feud.