Former WBA super-bantamweight world champion Bernard Dunne has offered to act as a mediator in an attempt to end the bloody gang war engulfing Dublin.
A feud between the Hutch and Kinahan gangs erupted during a boxing weigh-in at the Regency Hotel ahead of the bout between Jamie Kavanagh and Joao Bento. Gunmen stormed the weigh-in, resulting in the death of David Byrne. Byrne is believed to be linked with an Irish-led cartel in southern Spain.Eddie Hutch Snr. was murdered three days later in revenge.
Bernard Dunne has now offered to step into mediate the feud in a bid to end it, as he revealed to the Daily Mail:
Ultimately you need boxing to win out here and young people to be encouraged to go into the sport.
We need to make sure that something like this never happens again; never mind in boxing but in the country itself.
There's issues like this all over the world. It's unfortunate that something like this happened in relation to a boxing match.
I've not been approached but I'd listen to what's being said and I'd make a judgement call then at that stage.
Dunne has yet to be approached to fulfill such a role.
