Gardaí confident of tracking pub killer

DETECTIVES were last night confident of tracking down a cold-blooded killer who sat in a pub for at least 45 minutes looking at his victim prior to shooting him dead.

Gardaí have built up a good description of the attacker, who was openly drinking before he approached father-of-two James Curran and shot him in the head.

"He wasn't masked, so we would be hopeful of tracking him down," said Superintendent Eddie Quirke of Kevin Street Station. Officers don't believe it was a gangland killing and suspect it was the result of a personal dispute between Mr Curran and his attacker.