Gardaí in Tipperary and Dublin are investigating two violent deaths that occurred yesterday.
The latest death occurred in Finglas, Co Dublin, when two men approached a house on Ratoath Drive just after 9.30am yesterday and shot Kevin Ledwidge (28) in the chest with a shotgun after he answered the door at the family home.
The scene of yesterday's fatal shooting in Finglas
He had been freed from prison on bail last Friday after being granted bail pending an appeal against an assault conviction.
He was also facing charges of criminal damage and assaulting gardaí at his home on May 21st.
The gunman escaped in a grey Opel Vectra, driven by an accomplice, that crashed near the scene. The two men fled on foot.
Gardaí searched a number of houses in the area overnight, and it is reported a number of guns and a substantial quantity of drugs were seized.
Mr Ledwidge's murder is not believed to be drug- or gang-related.
In Nenagh, Co Tipperary, State pathologist Dr Marie Cassidy carried out a postmortem yesterday on the body of a man who died following a stabbing early on Sunday morning.
Gardaí said the victim, a foreign national believed to be in his 30s, died after a fight at a house party between 1.30 and 1.45am. A second man, understood to be in his 50s, was stabbed once and was treated last night at Nenagh General Hospital.