Fresh leads for special unit probing 1983 prison officer murder

A SPECIAL Garda unit have identified new lines of inquiry in a chief prison officer’s murder 25 years ago.

Portlaoise father-of-three, Brian Stack, 47, was shot in the back of the neck on a Dublin street by a masked gunman, who fled the scene with an accomplice on a motorcycle.

Mr Stack had been attending an event in the national boxing stadium.