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Eddie Hutch

Gardaí have moved to arrest two men over the shooting dead of Eddie Hutch

The two men, aged in 20s and 30s, are being held at separate garda stations.

Updated 10.58 pm

A SECOND MAN has been arrested in connection with the killing of Eddie Hutch in the Ballybough area of Dublin in February.

This latest arrest of a man in his 20s came this evening after a man in his 30s was arrested earlier today.

The brother of Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch was shot dead on the night of Monday 8 February at Poplar Row in Dublin 3 as part of the ongoing Hutch-Kinahan gang feud.

The father of five was killed at his home days after the Regency Hotel attack, in which an associate of the Kinahan crime gang, David Byrne, was shot dead.

The 59-year-old was not known to gardaí as a violent criminal. He had minor offences against his name but was not active in the criminal or gangland scene.

One local who spoke to TheJournal.ie after the killing described Hutch, who worked as a taxi driver, as “a decent guy” – adding that he was “definitely outside criminality”.

Both men arrested today are being held under Section 50 of the Criminal Justice Act and can be held for up to a week,

They are being held at separate garda stations at Mountjoy and in Bridewell.

Investigating Gardaí are continuing to appeal for anyone with information to contact the incident room at Mountjoy Garda Station on 01-666 8600, the Garda Confidential Line on 1-800 666111 or any Garda Station.

Read: Eddie Hutch shooting condemned as sign of “despicable inhumanity”

More: ‘Suddenly I’m looking at a man covered in blood’: Regency Hotel manager talks about horror gun attack

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    Feb 7th 2016, 3:38 PM

    Where would the hacks be if there was no twitter?

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    Feb 7th 2016, 9:19 PM

    I live facing the bridge, lots of helicopters etc al recording it and huge area shit down, blast lasted a second as they where stunt flames, people just being dramatic as usual

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    Feb 7th 2016, 3:57 PM

    Fuking stop with this clickbait shite

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    Mute Paul Radburn
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    Feb 7th 2016, 3:54 PM

    Another attention seeking headline

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    Feb 7th 2016, 3:57 PM

    Paul, could you not have realised that it was a movie stunt from the * in the headline? Seriously,I mean it was practically spoon-fed to us….

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    Mute Paul Radburn
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    Feb 7th 2016, 6:10 PM

    Oh, ok, the Brazil team were all, killed in a plane crash*

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    Feb 7th 2016, 6:10 PM

    * means it’s not true

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    Feb 7th 2016, 5:03 PM

    “The Foreigner” An action packed film starring Nigel Farage blowing up buses full of Syrian refugees.

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    Feb 7th 2016, 6:27 PM

    Sap!

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    Feb 7th 2016, 11:27 PM

    The victims and the victims families of the 7/7 bombing must be disgusted with this stunt.
    Quite a sick stunt to terrorise the men, women, children and oaps of London
    and try to accustom them to being under attack by the terrorists that their (bought and paid for) government radicalise and invite in from behind the safety of the bulletproof glass installed in their ivory towers.
    Sad
    So Sad.

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    Feb 8th 2016, 12:46 AM

    Video games have taken to the streets.
    Soon no one will know (or care about) the difference between a real terrorist attack and a fake one.
    How desensitised people have become.

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    Feb 7th 2016, 9:18 PM

    This whole thing has been blown out of all proportion!

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    Feb 7th 2016, 10:18 PM

    The outrage bus has exploded.

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    Feb 8th 2016, 9:09 AM

    I am surprised that they had to use the real Lambeth Bridge in this day and age.
    Surely this could have been done in a film studio with the assistance of CGI (Computer Generated Imagery).
    That bus exploding would certainly have looked like a real terrorist attack to a casual unsuspecting observer.

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    Feb 8th 2016, 9:13 AM

    P.S.
    Are the film company going to compensate the disrupted commuters?
    Pigs might fly.

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    Feb 8th 2016, 2:36 PM

    God some people just look for a way to be offended!!

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