Gardai are braced for associates of the gangster who survived a submachine gun ambush to seek revenge.
Sources told the Irish Mirror investigators fear a reprisal attack is imminent following the murder bid on James “Nellie” Walsh, 36, in South Dublin. The convicted criminal was hit in the head when he was sitting in a car in Killinarden in Tallaght on Tuesday but was not seriously injured. A woman who was also in the vehicle was uninjured.
Sources claim the attack, using an Israeli-made Uzi sub-machine gun, was an attempt to kill Walsh who was released from prison in July. A source said: “They wanted him dead. He was a very lucky man.”
