Gardaí seek three men in connection with gun death

GARDAÍ were last night seeking three men for questioning in relation to a violent weekend incident in Louth which left one man dead and another seriously injured.

The incident in the Sliabh Breagh estate in Ardee resulted in the death of Stephen Hanaphy, 20, of Cromcastle Court, Coolock. Mr Hanaphy collapsed and died from a single gunshot wound to just above his heart after fleeing the scene of an attack on a house in the quiet residential estate.

Mr Hanaphy is believed to have accompanied three other men from the capital to the Co Louth town in order to carry out a punishment attack on members of a Traveller family who are in dispute with a Dublin criminal. The Dublin gang smashed in back windows and forced their way into the rented property on the Sliabh Breagh estate before being confronted inside the house by a man armed with a gun and another with a Samurai sword. A number of shots were fired at the intruders from either a handgun or rifle.