The Archbishop of Dublin has asked the mothers and grandmothers of gangland criminals to plead with them to stop the violence.
Eddie Hutch Senior was shot dead on Poplar Row last night, in an apparent revenge attack for last Friday's murder at the Regency Hotel.
The Monk's brother has been described as a quiet, hard-working man. The gangland feud is suspected to involve drugs gangs in Ireland and Spain.
Speaking to Newstalk Lunchtime, Dr Diarmuid Martin said he believed the only way to stop this latest wave of violence among Dublin criminals would "be within their own ranks".
"Especially their mothers and grandmothers who see their children being dragged even more deeply into a spiral of violence and who do not want to see their children going out in the morning and not coming home in the evening".
"I think, [mothers and grandmothers] are about the only people who have the ability - and they're very often very strong women", he added.
"They have to get across that, first of all, this spiral of violence has to stop, the arms have to be put down and some way of organising a truce and ceasefire is absolutely essential for everybody and for society in general".
Bishop Martin has dismissed entering mediation with those responsible claiming that "would give the impression that the perpetrators have some status in society - they're not idols or stars or heroes, they're criminals".
