DPP continues probe into Garda shooting of foiled post office raiders

THE Director of Public Prosecutions is examining a garda file over the deaths of two raiders shot by armed detectives during a post office robbery, a coroner’s court heard yesterday.

Colm Griffin, aged 33, and Eric Hopkins, aged 24, were shot on May 26, 2005 after detectives foiled a raid at the post office in Lusk, County Dublin.

Inspector Mick Connell from Dublin’s Store Street Station said inquiries were continuing over the shootings last May.