A number of arrests were made yesterday afternoon in connection with an investigation into the murder of Mr Paschal Boland who was shot outside his home near Mulhuddart, Co Dublin, last January. Gardai also seized heroin worth £100,000 at a house in Blanchardstown.
Two men were being detained under the Offences Against the State Act and two men and a woman under the Drugs Trafficking Act.
Mr Boland was shot about six times at close range on January 27th last while sitting in a car in the driveway of his home at Ashcroft Court in Mulhuddart. Gardai said at the time that the shooting was understood to have been the result of a gangland feud.