A file on the murder of dissident republican Aidan O'Driscoll is to be forwarded to the Director of Public Prosecutions, an inquest into his death was told today.
Detective Inspector Declan O'Sullivan told Cork City Coroner's Court that he was seeking to have O'Driscoll's inquest adjourned as criminal proceedings are being contemplated by gardaí.
Cork City Coroner Philip Comyn granted an application to adjourn O'Driscoll's inquest until 30 November.
The father-of-two from Glen Heights in Ballyvolane, Cork, was shot four times as he walked home from work at around 5pm on 7 December last.
Assistant State Pathologist Dr Margaret Bolster told the inquest that her post-mortem examination on the 37-year-old confirmed he had died from haemorrhage and shock due to multiple gunshot wounds.
Gardaí arrested six people in relation to the murder, which occurred near Blackpool Church. All six were released without charge.
O'Driscoll had just been dropped off by a colleague and was walking along the Commons Road when two men approached him and shot him at close range, wounding him in the pelvis.
He tried to flee across the road but collapsed and was shot another three times. He was taken to Cork University Hospital for surgery but died from his injuries less than two hours later.
Gardaí suspect he was murdered by former associates from the Real IRA in Cork after he split from them and sided with a new grouping styling itself the New IRA.
O'Driscoll was convicted of Real IRA membership in 2006 and jailed for three years but his conviction was quashed on a technicality.
He was closely aligned with former Real IRA leader Alan Ryan who was shot dead in Dublin in 2012.
For a period prior to Ryan's murder, gardaí believe O'Driscoll was Chief of Staff of the Real IRA.
