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Update 12.10pm
GARDAÍ INVESTIGATING THE fatal shooting of Darren Kearns in Dublin yesterday have said it is “very lucky” that nobody else was hurt.
The victim was sitting in a car with his wife outside Cumiskey’s pub when a lone gunman began firing ‘indiscriminately’ into the vehicle.
He was shot a number of times, including bullets fired to the head, at about 5.40pm.
His wife was not injured in the attack. Gardaí said it was lucky there was no other fatalities as there were people walking in the car park at the time.
Kearns, a 33 year old with an address on the Navan Road, was known to gardaí. They have expressed their sympathies to his family, describing the crime as “horrendous”.
At a media briefing held this morning in Cabra, gardaí say they believed the men involved in the shooting were in a Chinese restaurant located above Cumiskey’s before the murder.
Appealing for witnesses to come forward, Inspector Tony Twomey also asked members of the public who were in the Phoenix Park or Blackhorse Avenue areas between 4pm and 6pm yesterday to contact them.
They are also trying to trace the movements of a light-coloured BMW Five Series with a registration plate 04-D-35151.
That car was found burnt out on a laneway off Regal Park on Blackhorse Avenue, not far from the scene.
Twomey said the investigation is at an early stage and multiple lines of inquiry are being followed.
Jail time
Kearns was convicted of drug offences in 2012 after being found in possession of more than €1.7 million worth of cannabis in August 2010.
He was jailed for six years after pleading guilty. According to court reports at the time, he had built up drug debts of €180,000 and agreed to move the cannabis to reduce what he owed.
Local TD Joe Costello offered his sympathies to the Kearns family, adding that the community was in shock following the shooting.
“Blackhorse Avenue runs along the perimeter wall of the Phoenix Park and is a quiet residential area,” he said in a statement.
However, today’s shooting is the second such activity in the space of a couple of months in the general Cabra area. It has all the hallmarks of a gangland killing.
He also called for full service to be resumed at Cabra garda station.
“Cabra must not become a centre for criminal gangs to engage in their feuding activities,” he added.
“Cabra needs the extra community gardaí and the extra patrols which the garda authorities promised last month. I believe it is also time to consider fully re-opening Cabra garda station.
“While there are certain logistical reasons for having the garda station open only during the day, there are strong policing and community considerations for having a permanent Garda presence round the clock in the heart of Cabra as was the situation previously.”
Investigating gardaí have issued an appeal for witnesses to come forward and contact them on 01 666 7400 or the confidential line on 1800 666 111.
With reporting by Cianan Brennan
“We wont leave the euro ” the biggest mistake Cyprus will ever make…….we are all involved in the biggest scam the world has ever seen. People are still sucking it up, we are in dark times and alot worse to come , it is too late for talking all this will end in very bad violence i am afraid. Sorry to burst some fluffy bubbles but this is going to happen.
Get out Cypress – escape the EuroChoke!
Another fire put out…..just waiting for the next one.
they would not accept the harsh terms and got a better offer, so sf were right
What better offer? It’s worse
It’s considerably worse. I think the increase in their corporate tax rate that they agreed ti would work particularly well here. Intel, the Pharamceuticals…basically all the multi-nationals would just love that.
There are not better offers, this EU project is a scam and history will tell the tale when we are all long gone !!!
Let alone the loss of over a weeks economic activity, approximately a 2% drop in GDP automatically compounded by a declining economy where the banking system is seen as being unsafe.
did they take the bailout in june when they were offered? no, did they tax the savings under 100k? no, they got a better offer, keep up the delusion lads
Peasant you’re absolutely delusional yourself. Keep drinking the coolade prescribed by your miseducated mates at the school of conspiracy and woe is me.
They’re stuck in the scam.
They did the right thing and got a good deal for the vast majority.
Trust funds and shares will suffer but who cares really.
Anastiades himself proposed taxing deposits under 100k – not Germany, not France, not Brussels not the Troika. He wanted to keep his buddies in Moscow happy at the expense of his own people.
This is a typical case of a politician backing something in Brussels only to blame it on “Merkel and the Brussels Bureaucrats” once he gets off the plane back home.
Peasant. Please. Educate yourself before posting. I cringe when I read your uniformed nonsense. It was the Cypriot Govt that wanted to tax deposits below the €100k mark- they wanted to protect their Russian friends.
Sorry Fiachra. Should have read your comment!
The only reason we are in a better position is because we aren’t still in free-fall. This has nothing whatsoever to do with fg or eurozone policy. There was always going to be a halt once the critical number of businesses had shut and economic migrants had emigrated. If we were back in the position we were in in 2010 I wonder would you be saying the same thing. Cyprus did not take the deal in June because of the punitive terms, try reading the thread with the blinkers off for once shaw. At least they have the cojones to refuse something because they judge the terms too harsh, not like our grovelling lapdogs.
Peasant, I have a book for you if you want to read it, we used it in first year in college.
“Economics 6th Edition, by Parkin, Powell & Matthews”
“Reflecting the changing world around us, ‘Economics’ brings the subject to life, helping the student separate the wood from the trees in the economic landscape”.
I agree with the foreword, it really would help you separate the wood from the trees and perhaps help you add factual credence to your misinformed, populist and quite frankly untrue rants?
I am always amused when the FG forces of righteousness play the “populist” card.
Do you know what that word means?
I think it’s funny how the keyboard warriors of miseducation, claim logic and reason based in empirical fact as having an agenda tied to a political agenda.
Just because it doesn’t suit your agenda doesn’t mean it’s not true. I have no allegiance to any political party, they’re all a shower of w@nkers FYI.
. A recent publication from two German finance experts Matthias Weik & Mark Friedrich “Der Gröste raubzug der Geschichte” ( The biggest robbery in history ) describes the ongoing rapid transference of wealth from the bottom up to a small elite, in chilling detail. All based on facts. I dont know if its available in English yet
ISBN 978-3-8288-2949-7
382 Seiten, Paperback
Tectum Verlag Amazon 19 Eur.
Of course those who could, withdrew their money in the branches that were open in London & Birmingham
and Moscow and the Cypriots on the Island were left to carry the can. Thats EU justice.
If only Sinn Fein were in Government. We too could be like Cyprus!!!
And i got paid a lot of money to put my country through this…Im merkels new lapdog
They state among other things that Frankfurt has now surpased London with regards to Casino banking. Perhaps Cyprus was offering too much competition ?
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