Dublin weigh-in murder: Continuity IRA claims murder of David Byrne, Dissident republicans accept claimed they agitated out a cutting in Dublin on Friday in which a man was asleep and two others wounded.
The Continuity IRA said it aswell affairs to backpack out added attacks "on biologic dealers and criminals".
Police said three of the gunmen wore police-style SWAT aggregation uniforms and were armed with AK47 advance rifles.
The badge aswell said at atomic six humans were complex in the advance at a weigh-in for a battle match.
It came advanced of a Clash of the Clans battle bender amid Dubliner Jamie Kavanagh and Portuguese boxer Antonio Joao Bento.
The World Battle Organization (WBO) European failing appellation action was due to yield abode on Saturday night.
The man who died was David Byrne, 33, from Raleigh Square in Crumlin in the south of the city.
In a account to the BBC, a man claiming to allege on account of the administration of the Continuity IRA said its associates were responsible.
He claimed Mr Byrne was targeted because he had been complex in the killing of Alan Ryan in Dublin four years ago.
Ryan, 32, was a arch affiliate of addition agitator republican group, the Real IRA. He was attempt asleep in September 2012.
At the time it was appear that Ryan's band aural the Real IRA in Dublin had been affianced in a altercation with aloft gangland criminals.
"Although not a affiliate of our organisation, we are not traveling to angle aback and acquiesce biologic dealers and abyss to ambition republicans," the CIRA agent said.
'Not an abandoned incident'
He aswell warned that added attacks were planned.
"This will not be an abandoned incident," he said.
"Continuity IRA units accept been authorised to backpack out added operations. More biologic dealers and abyss will be targeted.
"The Continuity IRA will backpack out added aggressive operations."The Irish police, An Garda Síochána, accept set up armed checkpoints in Dublin because of fears of backfire for the attack.
The CIRA agent who issued the account to the BBC provided a cipher word, but there is no way to apart verify this claim.
The attributes of the attack, and in accurate the use of AK47 advance rifles, are evocative of attacks agitated out by the Provisional IRA and agitator republican groups.
But until now, the Garda accept said they accept cutting was the aftereffect of a altercation amid aloft organised abomination gangs.
Speaking on Monday afterwards the attack, Sinn Fein admiral Gerry Adams said: "It was a audacious advance in ample aurora by bent thugs who accept they can accomplish with dispensation and aloft the accustomed aphorism of law.
"They should be bound up, area they belong."
Mr Adams added: "I accept a accumulation calling itself the Continuity IRA has claimed albatross for the advance at the Regency Hotel.
"They are not the IRA. The IRA are gone and their weapons are gone," he said.
The Continuity IRA said it aswell affairs to backpack out added attacks "on biologic dealers and criminals".Police said three of the gunmen wore police-style SWAT aggregation uniforms and were armed with AK47 advance rifles.
The badge aswell said at atomic six humans were complex in the advance at a weigh-in for a battle match.
It came advanced of a Clash of the Clans battle bender amid Dubliner Jamie Kavanagh and Portuguese boxer Antonio Joao Bento.
The World Battle Organization (WBO) European failing appellation action was due to yield abode on Saturday night.
The man who died was David Byrne, 33, from Raleigh Square in Crumlin in the south of the city.
In a account to the BBC, a man claiming to allege on account of the administration of the Continuity IRA said its associates were responsible.
He claimed Mr Byrne was targeted because he had been complex in the killing of Alan Ryan in Dublin four years ago.
Ryan, 32, was a arch affiliate of addition agitator republican group, the Real IRA. He was attempt asleep in September 2012.
At the time it was appear that Ryan's band aural the Real IRA in Dublin had been affianced in a altercation with aloft gangland criminals.
"Although not a affiliate of our organisation, we are not traveling to angle aback and acquiesce biologic dealers and abyss to ambition republicans," the CIRA agent said.
'Not an abandoned incident'
He aswell warned that added attacks were planned.
"This will not be an abandoned incident," he said.
"Continuity IRA units accept been authorised to backpack out added operations. More biologic dealers and abyss will be targeted.
"The Continuity IRA will backpack out added aggressive operations."The Irish police, An Garda Síochána, accept set up armed checkpoints in Dublin because of fears of backfire for the attack.
The CIRA agent who issued the account to the BBC provided a cipher word, but there is no way to apart verify this claim.
The attributes of the attack, and in accurate the use of AK47 advance rifles, are evocative of attacks agitated out by the Provisional IRA and agitator republican groups.
But until now, the Garda accept said they accept cutting was the aftereffect of a altercation amid aloft organised abomination gangs.
Speaking on Monday afterwards the attack, Sinn Fein admiral Gerry Adams said: "It was a audacious advance in ample aurora by bent thugs who accept they can accomplish with dispensation and aloft the accustomed aphorism of law.
"They should be bound up, area they belong."
Mr Adams added: "I accept a accumulation calling itself the Continuity IRA has claimed albatross for the advance at the Regency Hotel.
"They are not the IRA. The IRA are gone and their weapons are gone," he said.
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