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A view of the Regency Hotel in Dublin where  David Byrne was shot dead in February 2016. Picture: PA

Three men appeared in the Special Criminal Court on Tuesday night in connection with the fatal shooting of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel in 2016. 

The three Dublin men, one in his 60s and the other two in their 50s, were arrested by gardaí in Ballymun earlier on Tuesday and brought before an out-of-hours sitting of the non-jury Special Criminal Court