Dissidents may have shot men

GARDAÍ INVESTIGATING the shooting of three men in west Dublin at about 11

GARDAÍ INVESTIGATING the shooting of three men in west Dublin at about 11.15am on Sunday have renewed their appeal for anyone who was in the Corduff Park area of Blanchardstown then to contact them.

The shooting may be linked to dissident republican vigilantes.

The victims, all in their 20s, were in the park drinking vodka when two men dressed in dark clothes approached. As the two got closer, they donned balaclavas and opened fire with what were thought to have been handguns.

One victim was shot in the head and fell. The other two were also hit, but managed to run to a nearby house and raise the alarm.

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Their attackers ran on foot through the park to Edgewood Lawns, a nearby estate.

One of the injured men was taken to Connolly hospital, Blanchardstown. His condition was described as stable yesterday afternoon although he remains in the intensive care unit. The other two were taken to the Mater hospital in Dublin city centre where they are in a serious condition.

One of the men had served a lengthy jail sentence for serious assault.