Members of Brian “King Ratt” Rattigan’s mob have emerged as suspects in a failed gangland hit yesterday after a convicted drug dealer was shot in an underground car park, the Irish Mirror can reveal.
But cops probing the attempted assassination of Gary “The Canary” Carey also have not ruled out the major Dublin drug dealing group known as “The Family”. A major investigation is under way after Carey was blasted at least five times – including in the chest, arm and leg – at the Hilton Hotel on Dublin’s South Circular Road after 11.30am yesterday.
The 41-year-old had just left the gym in the hotel when he was ambushed and chased through its underground car park by at least two men until he was shot down. Gardai and emergency services arrived within minutes but the Irish Mirror can reveal that cops did not initially recognise Carey, as he was bald until he recently got a hair transplant in Turkey.
