GARDAI in Cavan are confident that charges will be brought against people involved in the double murder of two Dublin men shot dead in April.
Eoin O’Connor (32) and Anthony Keegan (33), went missing in Cavan two months ago.
Their bodies were discovered on an island at Lough Sheelin, near the Cavan-Meath border last month.
Both men travelled from Dublin to Cavan on April 22 and were subsequently reported missing by their families.
It was feared their disappearance was linked to criminal elements in the Dublin-Meath-Cavan area, with links to drug trafficking. The men had travelled to the county to collect a drug debt on behalf of a criminal figure from Dublin.
Gardai arrested two foreign men in connection with the killing during the week, but they are not believed to have been the killers.
Gardai believe they have information regarding what happened before and after the killings.
They were released without charge, but a garda source in Cavan said yesterday that investigationn into the murders of the Dublin men are ongoing, and it is likely there “will be further arrests and charges as a result of the file that is being prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions”.
A man suspected of involvement in drugs and pipe-bomb manufacturing is suspected of carrying out the killings. Gardai are also probing whether his girlfriend was involved as two guns were used to kill the men.
The pair fled the country after the shootings.
It is believed that O’Connor and Keegan were set up by one of their own associates, who is a major criminal, and that man is now under threat from other criminal elements.
Gardai have received information that he told the chief suspect he would wipe clean a €30,000 debt if he killed the men.
The chief suspects fled to the U.K. after the killings and are then believed to have travelled to South Africa.
Gardai expect to make a number of arrests in connection with the case over the coming weeks.
