Gardaí believe the Kinahan gang blamed him for a botched shooting on its gang members in Dublin a month earlier. He was an uncle of Gary Hutch and targeted because he was a member of the Hutch family. Gardaí believe his relationship with the Hutch family, with whom he had grown up, was the motive for his murder. Gardaí believe he was killed because the Kinahan gang feared he may have taken revenge on its members for his father’s murder. He was the fourth member of the Hutch family to be killed since the Kinahan-Hutch feud began.

Source: The Irish Times January 21, 2018 16:52 UTC