Gardaí believe one of the two men arrested at a house in west Dublin on Friday is a key member of a Dublin-based faction of the Kinahan cartel. On that occasion a gunman went to the wrong pub looking for Mr Gilligan. While the efforts to kill Mr Gilligan were not part of the Kinahan-Hutch feud, members of the Kinahan cartel is a suspect. Noel Duggan’s murder outside his home in Ratoath, Co Meath, in March, 2016, was also part of the Kinahan-Hutch feud. The older man is regarded is a key member of the group within the Kinahan cartel linked to the effort to murder Gilligan and the Eddie Hutch and Noel Duggan murders.

Source: The Irish Times November 16, 2019 15:11 UTC