Man shot in gangland attack ‘did not deserve to die’

THE girlfriend of a slain Dublin gangland figure buried on Saturday said yesterday he was not a crime lord and that he “did not deserve to die”.

It also emerged that armed detectives supported by the Emergency Response Unit (ERU) have stepped up patrols in the estates of west Dublin in a bid to control gang violence.

Jennifer Kiernan was in bed with Paul Cunningham, 23, and their three-year-old son, at their home in Drumheath Avenue, Mulhuddart, in the early hours of last Sunday week when two gunmen burst into the room and shot him.