A DUBLIN gangster is recovering in hospital after being almost disemboweled in a sickening machete attack.

Charles ‘Buckethead’ Russell was stabbed multiple times in the stomach when he was set upon in Finglas at around 5am yesterday.

Left to bleed to death on the street, he was rushed to the Mater Hospital, where doctors battled to treat knife wounds so savage they could see his internal organs.

The Irish Sun has learned that Russell — sentenced to nine years in 2009 for slicing a man’s hand off with a sword — has refused to make a complaint to gardai about the St Margaret’s Road incident.

Cops are investigating whether it was connected to an ongoing feud between two rival west Dublin gangs.

Buckethead, who has links to notorious criminal Jay O’Connor, was previously targeted in 2016 when a car mounted the pavement in Blanchardstown and knocked him down.

The hood refused to have his resulting leg injury treated in a local hospital, fearing another attempt on his life.

The two chief suspects in the hit and run attack are believed to be associated with a crime gang that has O’Connor and his mob in its sights.