Hit man jailed for life for murdering Limerick bouncer

A hired hit man has been jailed for life at the Central Criminal Court after pleading guilty to the murder of a night club bouncer, who was shot in the head in front of his wife outside their Limerick home.

Englishman James Martin Cahill (aged 30), with an address at Highfield Lane, Quinton, Birmingham, was to be paid €10,000 for the murder of father-of-two Brian Fitzgerald who he shot in the back of the head after he fell to the ground.