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Irish militants claim Dublin shooting

Monday, 08 February 2016 2:36 PM [ Last Update: Monday, 08 February 2016 2:35 PM ]

The Irish republican militant group the Continuity IRA has claimed responsibility for a deadly shooting in Dublin last week.

Fears are growing over a potential surge in violence in Northern Ireland. The Irish republican militant group the Continuity IRA on Monday claimed responsibility for a shooting at a boxing event in Dublin last week that left one person killed and two injured.

Concerns over the recurrence of similar attacks by the Continuity IRA are now particularly rising because the group has warned of similar attacks in the future.

"This will not be an isolated incident," a man claiming to be a spokesman for the dissident republican group said in a statement to the BBC.

"CIRA units have been authorised to carry out further operations. More drug dealers and criminals will be targeted," BBC has quoted the spokesman as saying in its report that was also carried by Reuters.

One man, identified as 33-year-old David Byrne, was killed and two others were injured in Friday's shooting at the Regency Hotel in north Dublin.

The police had said they believed the shooting was the result of a feud between organised crime gangs.

This is while the Continuity IRA spokesman claimed the dead man was targeted because he had been involved in the killing in Dublin in 2012 of a member of the Real IRA, another republican group.

Irish police have set up checkpoints on roads amid fears of retaliation.

The Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) formally ended its military campaign against British rule in Northern Ireland in 2005.

The PIRA and dissident splinter groups that emerged since frequently carried out vigilante attacks on suspected drug dealers, Reuters has added in its report.

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