A full post mortem examination and detailed scene examinations are being carried out today following the shooting of a Cork man, believed to be linked to the drugs trade.
Up to 40 gardaí are today continuing their investigating into the murder of David Brett, a father of three, who was shot outside a small country school on Monday.
The body of the 34-year-old, originally from Togher in Cork city, was found with a gunshot wound to the back of the head outside Foilogohig national school four miles north of Ballydesmond village on the Cork-Kerry border at about 10.30pm.
The Deputy State Pathologist, Dr Margaret Bolster, completed a preliminary examination last night, which concluded he had died from at least one gunshot wound to the head. A full post mortem examination will be carried out today.
Gardaí cordoned off about 300m of the boreen leading to the school and search teams will today carry out a detailed search of the area.
Mr Brett was well known to gardaí to have been involved in a major drugs gang in Cork city with his brother, John, who is serving an 11-year sentence after he was caught with more than €600,000 worth of ecstasy in Glanmire in 1999.
His body was found beside his silver eight-year-old Limerick-registered Audi A4 by local man Jerh Roche after his sister-in-law, Síobhán Murphy, phoned him to say she had seen the body of a man outside the schoolhouse as she drove home.
Supt Noel Galwey of Kanturk Garda station appealed to anyone who travelled the Ballydesmond to Newmarket or Ballydesmond to Taur roads on Monday night or anyone who saw anything suspicious in the area to contact the station.