Overview
- Sources cited by the Irish Independent say Dunne received several “serious” phone calls shortly before he was shot, including one from a life‑sentence prisoner using an illegal phone in Mountjoy Prison.
- Two gunmen entered the Faussagh House pub and opened fire while another man stood guard outside and a getaway driver waited in a car.
- Dunne, 34, was seated beside his 17‑year‑old daughter when he was killed, and witnesses reported he tried to grab lounge boy Jen Tiang as a human shield.
- He was struck twice in the back of the head, with six bullets recovered from his body, as patrons were ordered to the ground.
- At the time, Dunne was under close watch by multiple Garda units and on bail over an alleged cash‑in‑transit plot, but arrests in May 2010 and a section 50 interview led to no convictions.