GARDAÍ HAVE ARRESTED a man in connection with the murder of Eddie Hutch two years ago.

A brother of Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch, the 59-year-old taxi driver was gunned down at his home on Poplar Row in Dublin’s north inner-city on the night of Monday 8 February 2016.

In a statement this afternoon, gardaí said the arrested man was “conveyed to Mountjoy Garda Station” and has been detained under Section 5 of the Criminal Justice Act 2007.

He can be held for up to seven days.

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