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20/03/2012
Two Arrested Over 2010 Gangland Killing
Two men were arrested on Tuesday in connection with the 2010 shooting of gangland figure Eamon Dunne.
Dunne was attending a party at the Faussagh House pub in Cabra on April 23 2010 when he was shot multiple times in the head and body. It was described at the time as one of the most significant gangland killings for a decade.
Following a number of searches across the Dublin on Tuesday morning gardai arrested two men. They are being detained under the provisions of section 50 of Criminal Justice Act 2007 at Mountjoy and Store St Garda stations.
Dunne who had assumed control of the major Finglas-based drugs and armed robbery gang once led by Martin “Marlo” Hyland was a target of the Garda National Drugs Unit, the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation, Criminal Assets Bureau and the Organised Crime Unit.
At the time of his death he was awaiting trial for the attempted armed robbery of a cash-in-transit van in Celbridge, Co Kildare, in November 2007.
He was suspected of helping to organise Hyland’s murder in Finglas in December 2006. Since then, the gang, under Dunne’s leadership, have been the most significant players in the drugs trade in Dublin and are the chief suspects for a string of gangland murders.
They killed young plumber’s apprentice Anthony Campbell during the same attack that claimed Hyland’s life.
A number of people have been arrested in relation to his death but nobody has been charged with the murder.
(H/GK)
Dunne was attending a party at the Faussagh House pub in Cabra on April 23 2010 when he was shot multiple times in the head and body. It was described at the time as one of the most significant gangland killings for a decade.
Following a number of searches across the Dublin on Tuesday morning gardai arrested two men. They are being detained under the provisions of section 50 of Criminal Justice Act 2007 at Mountjoy and Store St Garda stations.
Dunne who had assumed control of the major Finglas-based drugs and armed robbery gang once led by Martin “Marlo” Hyland was a target of the Garda National Drugs Unit, the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation, Criminal Assets Bureau and the Organised Crime Unit.
At the time of his death he was awaiting trial for the attempted armed robbery of a cash-in-transit van in Celbridge, Co Kildare, in November 2007.
He was suspected of helping to organise Hyland’s murder in Finglas in December 2006. Since then, the gang, under Dunne’s leadership, have been the most significant players in the drugs trade in Dublin and are the chief suspects for a string of gangland murders.
They killed young plumber’s apprentice Anthony Campbell during the same attack that claimed Hyland’s life.
A number of people have been arrested in relation to his death but nobody has been charged with the murder.
(H/GK)
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