It was 50-50 if Gilligan would live or die

A chaplain who administered Last Rites to former crime boss John Gilligan said it was “50-50” for a period if he would live or die.

Fr Dan Joe O’Mahony said that, from listening and talking to the medical staff, it could have “gone either way” for Gilligan.

The 61-year-old was shot four times when armed gunmen burst into his brother’s house in Clondalkin, west Dublin, at 7pm on Saturday.