Victim of gangland-style shooting killed in front of revellers

NIGHT-TIME revellers watched in horror as the doorman of a busy city centre pub was gunned down in a drive-by attack, the tenth gangland- style shooting since the start of the year.

Ronald Draper, from Tallaght, was hit in the head by the gunman, who calmly stepped off the back of a high-powered motorbike, walked up to the victim and fired up to four shots in rapid succession.

Mr Draper, 25, was working on the door of Charlie P's bar on Eden Quay in Dublin. He was fatally injured and died less than two hours later in the Mater Hospital.