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Man critical after Dublin shooting linked to Hutch/Kinahan feud

  The shooting happened at a petrol station on the Clonshaugh Road. Picture from Google Maps
  The shooting happened at a petrol station on the Clonshaugh Road. Picture from Google Maps   The shooting happened at a petrol station on the Clonshaugh Road. Picture from Google Maps

A MAN in his late twenties was in a critical condition on Wednesday night after a Dublin shooting linked to the feud between the Hutch and Kinahan crime gangs.

The man, from the north inner-city, was wearing a bulletproof vest when he was shot at a Topaz filling station on Clonshaugh Road, near Dublin airport, at about 1.35pm on Wednesday.

He was at the station in his northern-registered car when a black Lexus car pulled up beside him and a gunman fired several shots through the window.

The victim was shot in the neck and upper body. 

He was treated by a nurse at the scene. He was taken to Dublin’s Beaumont Hospital where he was described as critically ill on Wednesday evening.

The filling station was sealed off.

Gardaí said up to 70 people were at the scene of the shooting and appealed to any witnesses to come forward.

Superintendent Finbar Murphy said it was fortunate no-one else was injured.

“There were bullets in different directions and any innocent person could have been injured in this attack,” he said.

Gardaí believe it is the latest outbreak of violence in the Hutch and Kinahan gangs’ feud which has so far cost 10 lives.

The victim was associated with the Kinahans but fell out with them after the murder of his close friend Gary Hutch, the first victim of the feud, in Spain in 2015.

RTÉ reported that he had been warned several times that his life was in danger and armed officers had mounted surveillance operations to protect him but he consistently refused to cooperate with gardaí.