One murder, two shootings in Dublin

The murder of Alan Cunniffe was just one violent incident in another violent week. On Friday night Eddie McCabe (21), from Drimnagh, died in St James' Hospital Dublin, almost exactly one week after he was found unconscious with serious head and facial wounds in a laneway off Tyrconnell Road, Inchicore. According to reports Mr McCabe had developed a number of problems, including drug abuse, after his father, also named Eddie, was murdered in Tallaght in November 1995. At the time the 30-year-old was awaiting trial for the armed hi-jacking of a taxi but it is thought he was shot dead by the brother of one of Dublin's leading criminals after a heated argument. A woman who was with him was also shot dead as she was a witness. No one was ever charged with the double murder.
Also on Friday two shooting incidents were reported in Dublin. Shortly after 7:00pm a man was seriously injured at Coburg Place off Amiens Street, near Connolly Station. Later in the night there was a report of shots being fired in the Phibsboro area. When gardaí arrived they found bloodstains and used shotgun cartridges on Annamoe Road, off the North Circular Road. Sometime after that a man with a gunshot wound to his shoulder was taken to hospital from his home in Finglas.
One report on RTÉ suggested that the victims were known to each other but that gardaí did not believe that the incidents were related.
A Galway woman appeared in court on Monday in connection with the death of John Malone (42), who was found unconscious near his home in Walter Macken flats, in the Mervue area of Galway, last Sunday. Una Black (24) from Bishop O'Donnell Road, was charged with assault causing serious harm. Mr Malone, originally from Co. Offaly, had been stabbed a number of times in the chest.