SENIOR members of the Traveller community have been called on to mediate following a rampaging incident in which a man was shot and a number of vehicles and mobile homes were damaged.
Footage of the incidents, which appear to have been recorded by the perpetrators, has been widely shared on social media and WhatsApp. It shows upwards of a dozen men armed with weapons including a gun, sledgehammers and slash hooks in Ennistymon, County Clare, on Sunday.
The masked and hooded men are seen smashing the windows of cars and mobile homes, and firing shots from a gun. Shouts of “that car there” and breaking glass can be heard.
A man, aged in his 50s, was hospitalised after a firearm was discharged in the Deerpark area of Ennistymon shortly after 6pm on…
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