Shooting of bouncer 'was planned', hears court

The chief prosecution witness in the trial of four men accused of shooting a Limerick bouncer has told a jury at the Central Criminal Court that there had been an earlier plan to kill the bouncer before he shot him in the chest and in the head.

James Martin Cahill told Mr Roger Sweetman SC, defending Desmond Dundon, that he was told after the murder that Mr Dundon and his brother, co-accused John Dundon had been supposed to carry out the hit. "When I was over in England they said the lads was down there before and they couldn't do it."