The Garda Commissioner and Justice Minister are being called on to urgently to meet with the local community after after three people from the north Dublin area were shot dead in the past week.
Hamid Sanambar, aged in his early 40s, was killed in the front garden of a house on Kilbarron Avenue, Kilmore in Coolock yesterday afternoon.
It comes less than a week after two friends in their 20's - Seán Little and Jordan Davis - were shot dead within 24 hours of each other.
Gardaí believe yesterday's incident was linked to Mr Little's murder.
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A body has been recovered in the sea off the south east coast.
The Irish Coast Guard assisted in the recovery from a vessel yesterday evening.
A post mortem exam is now expected to take place to allow for formal identification.
It comes five days after a 45-year-old man went missing from his trawler while fishing off the Wexford coast.
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The counting in the local elections is complete.
The last of the 949 seats were filled last night.
Fianna Fáil will be the largest party in local government for the next five years, with 279 seats.
Fine Gael has 255, and Sinn Féin is the next highest, with 81 seats.
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Counting the Midlands north West will resume this morning after Green Party candidate Saoirse McHugh was eliminated.
Businessman Peter Casey is refusing to concede defeat.
The Independent is 11,000 votes behind fourth placed Maria Walsh, of Fine Gael - with only four seats up for grabs.
Independent Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan and Sinn Féin’s Matt Carthy look set to be elected and Fine Gael’s Mairead McGuinness has already been confirmed.
In Ireland South, Mick Wallace looks on course to take the second seat after Fine Gael’s Sean Kelly was elected in poll position.
Fianna Fail's Billy Kelleher is just behind him and looks to be in with a very strong chance.
It appears to be a race between Fine Gael's Deirdre Clune, the Green Party's Grace O'Sullivan and Sinn Fein's Liadh Ni Riada for the last seat.
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Fine Gael TD Maria Bailey won't chair this morning’s Oireachtas Housing Committee meeting.
It comes after the Dun Laoghaire representative withdrew a claim against a Dublin hotel after she fell off a swing at the property.
Deputy Bailey has been roundly criticised by Cabinet Ministers for bringing the case.
Speaking in the Dáil yesterday, the Business Minister Heather Humphreys took a swipe at what she called Ireland's 'compensation culture' – and was backed up by the Taoiseach.
Leo Varadkar is due to meet with Deputy Bailey in the coming days.
