Two men have been injured following a shooting outside a boxing venue in Dublin in the latest gangland incident linked to the ongoing Kinahan-Hutch feud.
A Garda spokesman said the men were injured after a car pulled up near the National Stadium, on South Circular Road, at about 9.45pm on Friday and fired at a man who is known to gardaí; he was hit in the foot as he ran towards Griffith College.
The second man, who was injured in the hand, is understood to have been a student who had been walking nearby.
Both men, who were aged in their 40s and 20s, were taken to St James Hospital with injuries which are not life threatening.
Two burnt-out cars were later found in north Dublin.
Gardaí sealed off the area and were carrying out searches. The South Circular Road is closed on Saturday morning from Donore Avenue to Leonards Corner.
An incident room has been set up at Kevin Street Garda station and anyone with information is asked to call them on 01 6669400.
Hutch-Kinahan
There was expected to be heightened security at the National Stadium on Friday as a member of the Hutch family had been due to compete in the boxing tournament that started at the stadium on Friday.
A witness said there was panic inside the venue when the shots were fired outside. “No one knew what was happening, so there was a big rush. Especially after what happened at the Regency” – the Dublin hotel where a man was shot dead at a boxing weigh-in in February 2016 – “everybody was running, hiding behind seats and that. It was mayhem the minute it happened, people looking for shelter.”
The Hutch-Kinahan feud has claimed 14 lives since September 2015. All but two of the attacks were carried out by the Kinahan drug cartel.
Four members of the Hutch family – cousins Gary (34), Gareth (35) and Derek (27), and their uncle Eddie (59) – have been killed.
Derek Coakley-Hutch was shot dead at the Bridgeview halting site beside Cloverhill prison, in west Dublin, last Saturday.
