Cold-blooded, well planned: a gangland-style shooting

THE murder of Eric Cummins was cold-blooded and well planned, depressingly familiar on the streets of Dublin and Limerick, but rarely seen in Cork.

A handgun, carefully kept a distance away from where the killer and the driver of the getaway car were sitting in wait, was used in the execution.

When Cummins, with his partner Michelle Cunningham and 18-month-old child, approached their home at Oldcourt in Ballincollig, the gunman struck.