Two men arrested yesterday following the murder of a 25-year-old man in a north Dublin bookmakers remain in Garda custody.
The 25-year-old man, named locally as Christopher Barry, a father-of-one from the Killester area, was killed in Byrne's bookmakers on Killester Avenue shortly before 3.00pm.
It is understood a gunman walked into the shop beside the Ramble Inn and singled out his victim before shooting him several times in the head. The attacker then made off on a motorbike.
The area was sealed off and uniformed gardaí interviewed locals.
Two men aged 22 and 23 were later arrested in Tallaght and are being held in Garda stations in Raheny and Clontarf under Section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act. They can be held for a total of 72 hours before being charged or freed.
The Garda Technical Bureau carried out a technical examination at the scene.
A burnt-out motorbike, believed to have been used by the gunman in the getaway, was found abandoned just off La Vista Avenue, a few streets from the where the killing took place.
A van seized when the arrests were made and two coats recovered from the murder scene were being forensically examined.
It was the second gun murder in the area in six months. Anthony Russell was shot dead in Artane's Ardlea Inn in April. The killing was linked to a feud between drug dealing and crime gangs in the north inner city.