Man proposed to girlfriend night before his murder

A man shot dead in a gangland-style shooting proposed to his girlfriend the night before his murder.

Michael Devoy, aged 41, from Ballbutcher Drive, Poppintree, Ballymun, Dublin 15, sustained multiple gunshots to the head and neck and died on January 18, 2014. He had been released from Portlaoise Prison the previous day.

His sister, Antoinette Corbally, told an inquest into his death that she and their mother Nancy Devoy drove to Portlaois to collect Michael but they missed him and he took the train to Dublin. He called to his girlfriend Anita Riggs’ house in Ballymun. The pair went for a walk to the local park, where he asked her to marry him.