Gardaí probe links in shooting

GARDAÍ are investigating if there is a link between the gangland murder of a 29-year-old man at the weekend and the shooting dead of a drug dealer almost a year ago.

The latest victim, who was named locally as Richie McCormack, was shot dead outside his brother’s house on St Ronan’s Close, Ronanstown, west Dublin, just before 9pm on Saturday.

McCormack, who lived on nearby St Ronan’s Drive, was leaving his brother’s house when a lone gunman approached him and fired a number of shots with a handgun.