IRA killer shot dead

Gardaí are bracing themselves for retaliation against gangland figures after a senior leader of the Real IRA in Dublin was shot dead.

Alan Ryan, 32, a notorious gangland figure, was gunned down yesterday afternoon near his home on Grange Lodge Ave, Clongriffin, Dublin.

Ryan was walking along a footpath with another man when he was shot a number of times, including in the head, by at least two gunmen in what one garda described as a “clinical” attack.