‘Daddy didn’t make it to the hall, he shot him’

The children of a criminal shot dead in his home told how a man holding a gun entered the kitchen wearing a balaclava before shooting their father dead.

Andy Connors, 46, of the Old Pound, Boherboy Rd, Saggart, Co Dublin was buried in a gold-plated coffin after he was shot in front of his family on August 19, 2014. His wife Ann Connors, four of his six children and a niece were in the house at the time.

One of his daughters told how she was pushed to the floor by the gunman who entered the house through the back door into the kitchen shortly before 11pm.