Police said emergency services found three injured men at the scene, all in their 20s or 30s, and that one was subsequently pronounced dead.
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Update 3.30pm: One man is believed to have been killed at a shooting in Dublin hotel, where a weigh-in was taking place for a boxing match taking place tomorrow night at the National Arena in Tallaght.
Two other victims were rushed to The Mater and Beaumont hospitals with what are suspected to be gunshot wounds.
A boxer had just left the scales at the weigh-in at the Regency Hotel in Dublin, Ireland, when an unknown number of gunmen stormed the venue with automatic weapons.
Garda had received intelligence that there might have been an attack planned for the Clash of the Clans boxing event scheduled for the National Stadium in Dublin on Saturday rather than at the weigh-in on Friday.
Journalist Kevin McAnena, who was in the foyer of the hotel as the gunmen entered, described how a “run of the mill” boxing weigh-in ended up with him “staring down the barrel of gun”.
“A number of shots were fired and three men were hit, one of them fatally – he is understood to be 34 and from Crumlin in Dublin”.
“Other men were armed but we didn’t know if [they] were with the men pretending to be gardaí or shooting at them”.
There were two were carrying hand guns and one man who was disguised as a woman and wearing an auburn wig and the other was stocky and wearing a beige cap. It was to be his first fight in Dublin since the gangland killings of his father, Gerard, and uncle Paul, both of whom were convicted drug traffickers and lieutenants in the cocaine-smuggling empire of Christy Kinahan.
“That same gunman looked over at me before pointing the gun at me, telling me, I think he said “get up” or “go away” or something like that”.
“There was a horrific cracking noise in front of me”, he told the Press Association.
Amateur footage taken by one of about 300 attendees captured the cries of a child.
Jamie Moore, a former European boxing champion, was shot in the legs two years ago in Marbella, where he was training Macklin. Thanks you for asking.
Members of the media present at the hotel were threatened by the gunmen as they fled.
In the aftermath, Kavanagh expressed his relief on Twitter: “I was lucky today is all I can say”.
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Mr Christle said that 100 or so attendees at the event jumped for cover.
