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From top: Saturday’s Irish Independent; Sunday World

You’ll recall the shooting at the Regency Hotel in Drumcondra, Dublin on Friday afternoon during the weigh-in for the WBO European Lightweight title fight between Jamie Kavanagh and Antonio Jao Bento.

David Byrne, 33, from Crumlin, south Dublin was killed in the shooting while another two men were seriously injured.

Following the shooting, photographs of the gunmen appeared in Independent News and Media titles over the weekend.

Special Correspondent at Irish Independent, Paul Williams, and Michael O’Toole, crime correspondent with the Irish Daily Star, spoke on Today with Seán O’Rourke this morning.

Mr Williams told the show that it was fortuitous that no undercover gardaí were present at the hotel because, if they had been present, a bloody shoot-out was likely to have occurred.

He also explained that gardaí had called to the offices of INM with a warrant to try and stop their photographs from being published.

From the interview…

Paul Williams: “To be very quick, to come along and look at your phone records Michael [O’Toole] and my phone records, GSOC and Garda headquarters, a certain small clique in Garda headquarters to find out if we’re talking to some Garda and I’m nearly sure that some smart alec in Garda headquarters will try and find out did some Garda tip any of our media colleagues off in relation to that weigh-in on Friday. That’s the bizarre situation, the bizarre world we’re living in at the moment.”

Sean O’Rourke: “Michael O’Toole, do you accept as well, or do you get the same sense that there is embarrassment at senior Garda levels at the fact that they didn’t, and maybe that people are alive today, who would not be had they been there, but that they feel in hindsight they should have been there?”

Michael O’Toole: “…There is definite embarrassment within the guards but I think it’s more amongst gardaí on the ground. They really are embarrassed. You know, we knew about it. Journalists knew about it. Gardaí should have been there. That’s what gardaí on the ground are saying.”

Regency shooting: Photograph the one loose thread they couldn’t have hoped for (Cormac O’Keeffe, Irish Examiner)

Waco-shooting

Sergeant W. Patrick Swanton said the Twin Peaks restaurant was littered with dead bodies, bullet casings, knives, weapons, shattered glass and pools of blood on Sunday night.
At least nine people were killed when fighting broke out between up to 200 bikers who gathered for a meeting in the city of Waco

Texas biker gang shooting: Police officer describes scene outside Waco restaurant as ‘most gruesome crime scene I’ve seen in 34 years’ (Independent.co.uk)

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The scene (top) outside the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, France this morning.

At least 12 people are dead after three hooded gunmen armed with Kalashnikovs attacked the headquarters of a French satirical magazine and opened fire on journalists and police guards.

The three men – described by a police union spokesman as “commandos” – are on the run after walking into the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris’s 11th arrondissement at about midday and fleeing in a getaway car driven by a fourth.

Charlie Hebdo is a satirical magazine known for publishing controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in 2012.

“Several men in black cagoules were heard to shout ‘the Prophet has been avenged'”, wrote Pierre de Cossette, a broadcast journalist with Europe1 News.

Satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo attacked by gunmen (Guardian)

Shooting reported at Paris magazine Charlie Hebdo (Telegraph)

Previously: Anything Good In Charlie Hebdo?

Pic: International Business Times

H/T: Gavin Sheridan

Meanwhile…

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Paris this evening.

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Unless you’re black.

Sido writes:

“You might have seen this article {below] and video from the UK Independent? A policeman in Carolina pulls a man over and shoots him when he reaches in his car for his driving licence.This is one of the most insane actions I’ve ever seen. It’s that mad, you can’t actually believe what’s happening.Seemingly the cop’s been charged and can get up to 20 years in jail. But I can’t help thinking a spell in a psychiatric institution would be more in order.”

‘Disturbing’ footage shows US officer asking to see man’s driving licence and then shooting him as he tries to fetch it (Independent,co.uk)

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Ian O’Sullivan in Tokyo. Japan today

Clay pigeons.

He has them for breakfast.

Mark writes:

“Ian O’Sullivan (age 18), an Irish Junior shotgun shooter has just won the World Championships in Olympic Trap (becoming Ireland’s first Olympic Clay Target World Champion)! And to add extra drama, Ian’s shotgun actually broke half-way through the final shoot-off for the gold medal and he STILL won.”

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Ireland’s Ian O’Sullivan World Junior Shooting Champion Olumpic Council of Ireland)

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BRA8AybCYAA813uBRA6E5BCEAE3fPcStore Street Garda Station, Store Street, Dublin, this evening

The 33-year-old was shot as he was driving along Seville Place in the north inner city at about 9.30pm. He managed to drive the car to Store Street Garda Station where he abandoned it on the Luas line, ran in and reported he had been shot. He was taken to hospital where he is being treated for a gunshot wound to the head.

 

Man Seriously Injured In Shooting (RTE)

Thanks Adam S and Fiona Fawn

The house in Lismore Road, Crumlin where a 16-year-old boy was shot last night.

Labour party councillor Michael O’Sullivan said gangland shootings in west Dublin were becoming so commonplace that people were not even reacting to them any more.

“It’s just been reported today that a 14-year-old girl in Pakistan has been shot by the Taliban, and we have worldwide condemnation. We should be acting to the same degree of horror,” he said.

 

16-year-old bystander wounded in Dublin drive-by shooting (Henry McDonald, Guardian)