Customers injured in pub shooting

Gardai are investigating a shooting at a north Dublin pub on Sunday. Five people were treated in hospital after the attack.

Gardai are investigating a shooting at a north Dublin pub on Sunday. Five people were treated in hospital after the attack.

Gardai said that at around 10.30 p.m. a man who had allegedly been refused entry to Gleeson's pub, on Main Street, Finglas, returned with a sawn-off shotgun.

Staff said he fired a shot through the doors, then entered the porch and discharged a second shot. Several customers were hit by pellets.

Gardai said they were following a definite line of inquiry.

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