Ireland's most notorious criminal, linked to killing of Dublin reporter, wounded in gun attack
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Authorities say Ireland's most notorious crime boss — widely blamed for the murder of an investigative reporter — has been shot in a Dublin ambush, but may have survived because he wore body armor.
John Gilligan has been at risk of assassination by rivals since his 2013 parole from prison. A gunman narrowly missed him in December.
Police said 61-year-old Gilligan was shot three times at close range when he answered the door at his brother's west Dublin home Saturday night. He was hospitalized in critical condition.
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While serving 17 years in prison on drug trafficking charges, he was acquitted of the murder of journalist Veronica Guerin, who wrote several exposes on Gilligan — and was beaten up by him — before her 1996 killing by members of Gilligan's gang.