Gardaí watch ports and airports after father of gang fugitive dies in prison cell

Michael Devlin was found unresponsive in a cell in Cloverhill Prison

Ken Foy

Gardaí have stepped up checks at ports and airports amid concerns that an on-the-run criminal blamed for helping to cause the Drogheda drugs feud will travel home for his father’s funeral.

Michael ‘Skin’ Devlin (50) died of a suspected heart attack in Cloverhill Prison in the early hours of Wednesday.