Huge garda search after ‘ambush’ murder

SNIFFER-DOGS, air support units and Garda units carried out extensive searches just outside Cork city following the ambush-style murder of a 42-year-old father of three near Blarney on Thursday afternoon.

Patrick (Pakie) Hogan, from the Rathpeacon area but who lived in Carrigaline, was shot dead at about 3.50pm on the Glen Road in the townland of Ballymartin near Grenagh.

Three men were still in detention in Cork city last night in relation to the killing.