Gardaí brace themselves for revenge attacks after drug boss shot in face

A new generation of violent young criminals are among the suspects for a reckless gun attack outside a Dublin pub which left a drug boss with serious head wounds and three innocent bystanders with minor injuries.

Gardaí said it was pure luck that there wasn’t multiple fatalities.

The gang leader, considered to be “one of the biggest criminals around town”, was shot in the face outside Hanlon’s pub on Old Cabra Rd, in the north inner city yesterday.