Gardai investigating the murder of Stephen Ledden, shot dead on St Stephen's night in Dublin's north inner city, are today appealing for a taxi driver, believed to have been working in the area that night, to come forward.
Detectives from Store Street Garda station want to talk to the driver who picked up two men on St Stephen's Day on the North Strand at around 2pm.
The taxi is believed to have travelled along Ossary Road to an address on East Wall Road where a third man was collected after a short wait.
The taxi then travelled back along Ossary Road, stopping at the junction of Ossary Road and North Strand where the first two men got out, before journeying into the city centre with the third man in the car.
The vehicle has been described as an old type green coloured taxi.
Mr Ledden (28) was shot in the head as he lay sleeping on the sofa in the downstairs room of his family home at Oriel Street in the Sheriff Street area of the city, just after Christmas.
His murder was the 27 thgun death in the country last year.
It was believed Mr Ledden, rumoured to be responsible for the murder of criminal Gerard Batt Byrne (25), of Ferryman's Crossing, Dublin, shot dead at the IFSC on December 13 th, was killed as part of an ongoing feud between two families in the inner city over an assault on a woman a number of years ago.
The feud has been escalating in recent months, with increased numbers of attacks coming from both sides.
As a result, Garda surveillence was in operation in the area for a couple of months before Mr Ledden's murder and a Garda van was parked at the corner of Oriel Street and Seville Place at the time of his killing.
Dectectives have said it is possible Mr Ledden was not responsible for Mr Byrne's murder and was targetted in error.