A 27-year-old man has denied trying to kill another man at a house in Limerick almost six years ago.
Mr David McCarthy, of Kileely, Limerick, pleaded not guilty yesterday to the attempted murder of Mr Patrick McNamara at Craeval Park in Moyross on June 11th, 1998.
Mr McCarthy also denies possession of a double-barrelled sawn-off shotgun for an unlawful purpose on the same date.
He is also facing other charges, including engaging in conduct which caused serious harm or risk of death to Patrick McNamara.
Yesterday, the Central Criminal Court, sitting in Limerick, heard an outline of the charges by prosecuting counsel Mr John Edwards SC.
The jury of eight women and four men were told that the accused person was one of three masked and armed men who arrived at a house in Craeval Park shortly after 2 a.m. on March 11th, 1998.
Mr Edwards said that the accused man saw Mr McNamara inside the house and shot at him from the outside, causing him serious harm.
Mr McNamara had arrived at the house earlier that night after being invited there for a drink by the owner's brother, the court heard.
The jury was told that Mr McNamara was in the house with one other person when the gunmen arrived.
The court heard that the gunmen fled from the scene in the direction of College Avenue.
During a Garda investigation after the attack a firearm was recovered in a laneway beside a shop in College Avenue.
The jury was told that they would hear evidence that this was "at least one of the guns used in the shooting".
The case continues today before Mr Justice Carney.