Two fatal shootings in three hours

GARDAÍ have launched separate murder investigations after two men were brutally murdered in gun attacks just hours apart.

In the latest gangland-style killing in Dublin, 22-year-old Dara McCormack was murdered just yards from his home in Blanchardstown shortly after 9.30pm on Saturday night. Gardaí believe he was killed because of a four-figure cocaine debt to a local drug gang.

Just three hours later, 60-year-old John Mahon was gunned down in front of his girlfriend in Fermoy, Co Cork. Mr Mahon, a self-employed painter decorator, became involved in a heated row with a man on Fermoy Bridge shortly after leaving Kerin’s Pub.