With the shooting in a Dublin hotel of gangster David Byrne,the bloody rivalry between Irelands most notorious drug bosses erupted into the lives of ordinary people, leaving police and politicians equally dismayedWearing nothing more than a pair of royal blue Superman Y-fronts, and Irish boxing contender Jamie Kavanagh was flexing his muscles for the cameras on stage in preparation for the weigh-in when automatic gunfire echoed around the main hall of Dublin’s Regency Hotel.
Dozens of people attending Friday’s pre-bout ritual for yesterday’s subsequently aborted WBO fight for the European lightweight title fled for their lives. Young boys were caught on a live television feed screaming for their fathers as the shots rang out. As the camera that had been trained on the fighters moved around the room a panic broke out,and the audio captured the sound of a child calling: “Daddy, Daddy assist me! What happened, or Daddy?”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com