Gardaí are investigating five separate shooting incidents in Dublin over the holiday period. In Finglas, shots were fired through the livingroom window and front door of a house in Casement Drive at 6.45 a.m. yesterday.
No one was injured. Garda technical experts later examined the scene.
Several hours earlier, a man in his 20s fired a round of shots on a housing estate in Hartstown/Clonsilla in west Dublin. The incident happened at 2.45 a.m. as the man approached four people who were walking from Hartstown Woods to Hartstown Way. No one was injured.
Early on Saturday morning, two shots were fired at the front bedroom of a house at Cherryfield Close in Clonsilla. Again no one was injured in the attack, which occurred at 1.25 a.m.
At 3 a.m. on the same night, the front door of a house at Buttercup Park in Darndale was damaged when two shots were fired at it. There were no injuries.
A 53-year-old man who had been arrested in connection with a separate incident in Clonsilla on St Stephen's Day has been released, according to Garda. A file has been sent to the DPP.
In this incident, a man received minor injuries when a shotgun was fired through the back door of a house at Whitechapel Green at about 1 a.m. The man, who had pellet wounds to his back, was brought for treatment to James Connolly Memorial Hospital in Blanchardstown, but was discharged shortly afterwards. Four people were in the house at the time of the shooting.
Garda investigating this incident arrested the 53-year-old man in a follow-up operation around lunchtime on Saturday and recovered a firearm.
The man was charged under Section 30 of the Offences against the State Act, and held at Blanchardstown Garda station until his release.
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