The alleged former chief of staff of the republican dissident group was allied to Alan Ryan, who was killed in Dublin’s gangland turf wars
Two gunmen have ambushed and killed a former leading figure in the Real IRA in the first murder of its kind in four years in Ireland. .
The attackers approached Aidan “The Beast” O’Driscoll from behind in a street in Cork on Wednesday, shot him once in the back, then twice more as the 37-year-old lay on the pavement.
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