Gardai are probing if gangster James “Nellie” Walsh was set up after he survived a second murder bid.
Walsh, 36, cheated death after shots were fired at him in Carlow town on Monday night. Sources say he was in the area to buy a vehicle when a gunman fired four shots at him in the Laurels estate shortly before 7pm.
Miraculously, none of them hit Walsh and the gunman fled. A source said: “They wanted him dead. He was a very lucky man.”
