FOUR people were arrested by gardai in Dublin yesterday shortly after a paramilitary style "punishment shooting".
The victim, found with five gunshot wounds to one knee and two to the other, was in a stable condition in hospital yesterday.
He is believed to have known his attackers but so far he has given gardai few details of the incident, which took place at 8.20 a.m. yesterday at Cloiginn Road, Ballyfermot.
The four, three men and a woman, were arrested after searches of houses in the area by gardai responding to reports of the shooting.
One of the arrested men is a member of a well known criminal family in the area known to have links with the drugs trade, but not believed to have paramilitary connections. All four were held under Section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act.