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AN ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD boy is recovering in a Dublin hospital after being shot in the arm in his own home.
The child received the injuries as a group of men ransacked his family home on the Belgard Road in Tallaght.
It is believed he received a gunshot wound to his arm when a shotgun was fired during the incident.
A man is also believed to have received a facial injury.
The boy was brought to Tallaght Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Gardaí in Clondalkin are investigating the incident and any with information can call 01-666 7600.
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You’d want to be a brave man with balls of steel to shoot an unarmed 11 year old kid…
Another new low to put in his criminal CV …
Don’t think he aimed and shot the child , sounds more like the gun went off , maybe during a struggle , having said that though , it’s still shocking that a child got shot like that , poor kid .
Your spot on Joanie. Excellent observation. Well done, he didn’t mean it.
The Indo reports that 3 caravans parked on the property were damaged in an earlier incident. I guess that makes most of the comments below redundant.
Johnny , loving the sarcasm , keep it up , well done .
Maybe if the guards were out investigating crimes instead of installing water meters this sort of criminal could be already locked up and this sort of crime could have been prevented!
But who am I to judge? Im just an ordinary everyday tax paying irish citizen! What does my opinion matter?
Yup but if I may…
The thugs that fought the guards that day are the ones involved in the shootings and beatings. Class thing.
I’ve my serious doubts that this was family who ……. just finished watching TV. Where father said Good night children. Good night papa. Say your prayers we will papa. Read us story please. Oh you little Rascals.
Somehow I doubt it.
It Doesn’t.
Get over it.!
Its time for a nation wide zero tolerance crack down on “gangland,” every community in the country is under siege from gangsters. Billions of euro are siphoned out of the economy overseas were gangsters operate with impunity, flooding Ireland with guns and drugs.
Seems that this was a “cultural” event, not a “gangland” one ;-)
Phil go easy – we don’t want ghost estates in Rathkeale.
Traveller gangs are as much involved in gangland as settled people especially in Dublin, anyway does it matter who was involved, criminality by whoever has gotten out of hand, does the fact that the young lad was a traveller mean that the gunman shouldn’t be hunted down as rigorously as he would if it was a settled boy who was shot.
MR
It shouldn’t matter who the crooks are, whether it Charlie Haughey’ estate or an estate in Rathkeale, the CAB should sieze the lot if they are bought from the proceeds of crime.
Phil.
It’s important to recognise that in order to remove/reduce crime in any area than you must reduce the need for crime. Rates of crime in every country in the world are directly related to inequality and poverty. You don’t get to create a situation where people are disadvantaged and then complain when they act out. If you want to stop this kind of thing from happening you must direct your focus on preventing the necessity of it.
Complete and utter joke. Where have peoples morals gone. If perpertraitors do get caught, please God make sure our courts deal out justice that fits the crime. Not 3 mths and 200 hrs community service..
Poor kid. I hope they catch whoever did this.
What was that the justice minister said about the gardai being the only ones who should be entitled to protect civilians?
And in earlier reports, cut backs to Garda and equipment, equals this sort of thing. But then what’s the point. If they were caught no space in prisons. The government should allow us all to defend our property!
Yeah but because it’s such a small article and where I see the postcode.
Possible it was drug related and not normal family?
What has this country become .
Henry Dunne was bang on.
Worrying times when the safest place on earth your own home is no longer it anymore. My ultimate nightmare and absolute privacy violation – someone breaking into my house. I’d think it won’t be long before people will want to own the gun – if state cannot protect anybody and sentences served are more serious for robbing cereal from the shop or not paying tv licence.
It’s probably a traveller feud.
There are only a few houses on the belgard road . One happens to be a traveler site (unofficial) . Group of men !! Shot gun !! Hmmmm I wonder..
Those people commenting above about allowing handguns will soon change their minds
People should be allowed to have the option of a hand gun in their home. It’s gone like the old west
More chance of the handgun then being used by a family member against another than being used to defend the family against an intruder.
This was a traveller camp so I’m sure there were a few “self defence items” lying around
PIR.
One of the exceptionally rare times I agree with you.
But yeah why am I not surprised it’s travellers
Lots of people rightly on here about the breakdown in law & order, perhaps a good starting point would be if our elected TD’s supported the rule of law and stopped encouraging people to break court orders (the law). Coppinger. Murphy, Higgins
Traveller camp or millionaires stately home a CHILD was shot!
Allowing the option of owning a gun just consider that statement do you know what would happen if this was law it would be free for all
It’s just lucky that nobody in the country have guns to terrorise innocent people with
Ah yes….and the day is coming where a child will be shot dead by intruders….but that’s ok because it not mine or your job to protect yourself or your family….call the Garda or Minister Fitzgerald. baa baa
Ouch…
This was probably a gangsters home and they were looking for him or his stash of guns drugs or money, ordinary burglars don’t need shotguns in fairness
I just dont get it, every time I read or hear that they caught the “bad guys” they are ALWAYS released without charges, that doesnt help, because criminals, s6umbags, animals, knackers, junkies (same thing) are not afraid because they know that nothing will happen to them thats why they do whatever they want. I just hope that something happen to the judges themselves or their families, to see if they really start doing their job properly. Another st&pid excuse, prisons are full, well who said that to be in prison is a holiday? there is no more space in prisons? here are some tents and sleeping bags.
That’s the world we live in I’m afraid.
Fg the party of law and order me arse.
Unfortunately when you criticise travellers your a racist by all accounts.
But over the years my brother in law a guard say 9 out of 10 burglaries are travellers. Then a lad I went to school with who is one too said almost very same thing.
At this stage we should be doing something about that. Cut of welfare to those travellers doing crime or something like that
Maybe Joan burton could set up an incident room at Tallaght station and make some arrests, oh no sorry I forgot, its one law for the rich………
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