An eighth man has been arrested in Co Kerry today as part of an investigation into an alleged vigilante attack in which a man was abducted and beaten last December.
The 40-year-old man was arrested in Tralee at about 10 a.m. and is being questioned at Killarney Garda Station where he held for up to 12 hours.
Last week, Sinn Féin’s director of elections in North Kerry, Mr James Sheehan, was questioned in relation to the incident before being released without charge.
A group calling itself "Concerned Parents Against Drugs" has claimed responsibility for abducting the man on December 7th, 2001, as well as the seizure if €15,000 worth of cannabis resin from him.
During the incident the abducted man's six-year-old daughter was left on the road in Castleisland at around 6 p.m. as four masked men bundled her father into the back of his own car and drove him to a remote area in Lyracrumpane, before burning the car and beating him.
Yesterday a 36-year-old man was arrested in Kerry as part of the investigation. There have been no charges over the assault but a number of files have been sent to the DPP.