A 46-YEAR-OLD linked to a Dublin murder that sparked a gangland feud has been arrested in Co Tyrone.
Kevin Murray, known as 'Flat Cap', was arrested in Strabane on Monday under a European Arrest Warrant.
It is understood police in four vehicles swooped on his home on Townsend Street in the town at around 6pm.
He is due to appear before Belfast Recorder's Court on Tuesday morning.
Murray is suspected of involvement in the Regency Hotel shooting in Dublin in February which set off a vicious gangland feud between the Hutch and Kinahan crime families.
The PSNI said the 46-year-old had been arrested about murder and firearms offences.
David Byrne was shot dead when two masked men dressed as members of the Garda opened fire with automatic weapons in the hotel during a weigh-in for a boxing match.
Two other members of the gang were later pictured running from the hotel holding handguns.
One was unmasked and wore only a flat cap while the other was disguised as a woman.
Murray was a close associate of 'IRA' man Mickey Barr, who was shot dead in Dublin in April.
He has recently been suffering from ill-health.
He is a former republican prisoner who was linked to the now defunct Republican Action Against Drugs.
In 2014 he was acquitted of taking part in a kneecapping carried out several years earlier.
