Two brothers shot dead and teen injured as bloody gangland feud in Dublin escalates

TWO brothers in their 30s were shot dead in a Dublin suburb last night, the result of an ongoing bloody feud between opposing drugs gangs.

The two men were named locally as Paul, 35, and Kenneth Corbally, 32, from Drumfinn Avenue, Ballyfermot.

The brothers, who were travelling in a car on Neilstown Road, a working class suburb in Clondalkin, were shot shortly after 8pm. A teenager was also seriously injured in the attack, which gardaí said had all the hallmarks of a gangland hit.

The brothers were well known to gardaí and had previous convictions for a range of serious crimes including armed robbery.

They had been warned by gardaí that their lives were under serious threat due to a worsening feud between opposing gangs in Dublin.

The two men, the latest to fall victim to armed and violent gang crime, were due before the courts.

Last night, the bodies remained in the car as detectives sealed off the crime scene and awaited the arrival of a state pathologist.

As well as a preliminary postmortem of the bodies, gardaí were also directing a full forensics probe of the double killing.

This was the latest Dublin gangland gun-related atrocity since last April when arch criminal Eamon Dunne was shot six times at close range as he socialised in a pub.

Dunne, 34, lead one of the biggest organised crime gangs in the country. He was shot as he drank with his daughter and friends in the Fassaugh House pub in Cabra, north Dublin.

The killing was described by detectives as one of the most significant gangland murders of the last decade and since then, tensions between warring gangs have been at boiling point.

Gardaí have yet to comment on whether or not last night’s killings were related to the discovery yesterday of cocaine worth €8 million and two guns in a suburban “drugs factory” in Terenure, south Dublin.

The massive drugs haul – thought to be the largest this year – was being linked to investigations into crime gangs in neighbouring areas, Crumlin and Drimnagh.

Aengus O Snodaigh, Sinn Féin justice spokesman, said: “The constituency I represent has been ravaged by drugs and drug-related gun crime for many years. Residents in many estates are living in a constant state of fear and intimidation from these drug dealers and gangsters.”