Speculation €100k was demanded just days before murder

UP to €100,000 in protection money may have been demanded from an unemployed father-of-two in the days before he was gunned down outside his rented home in Co Cork on Wednesday.

Gardaí investigating the murder of suspected major drug dealer, Darren Falsey, believe it’s too early to say if he was killed by dissident republicans because he refused to pay them “protection money”.

However, it is believed the 36-year-old, shot in the hallway of his rented home in Carrigaline, was threatened some weeks ago that he risked being harmed if he didn’t pay up.