GARDAI believe this young man was lured to an apartment and shot dead over a drug debt.
The body of Ballymun native Sean McCarthy (28) was discovered in an apartment in Drumcondra, in Dublin, on Saturday night - after he had been missing for five days.
Officers are now set to launch a murder investigation after Mr McCarthy was discovered with gunshot wounds inside the home on Achill Road. It is feared that he could have lain dead at the apartment for several days before being discovered.