Suspect arrested after gang shooting

GARDAÍ yesterday arrested a man suspected of setting up the latest gangland murder victim, the sixth such murder this year.

Aidan Byrne, 33, and a father-of-one, was shot up to 10 times with a semi-automatic handgun as he sat in the passenger side of a parked car on Saturday night.

Senior officers are linking his murder to a violent feud in Dublin’s north inner city, which has claimed at least four lives to date.

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