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LAST UPDATE | 21 Sep 2018
GARDAÍ ARE APPEALING for witnesses following an incident of shots being fired at a 40-year-old man who was out walking his dog in Cork last night.
Gardaí were called to the incident in Chapel Gate, Glenheights Road, Ballyvolane in Cork at around 10.30pm last night.
The man was uninjured and escaped into a house for safety.
Speaking to 96FM’s Opinion Line with PJ Coogan, a listener who was in the area at the time said that he was watching television when they “heard a few bangs”.
“She said ‘They sound like shots’ but I thought she was watching too much TV.
I said ‘That’s probably a car backfiring, a few bangers being left off or something’. And I’d say about three or four minutes later the dog started going mad.
He said he went outside for a look around, as did others in the area.
“Lo and behold there were shots fired.”
The listener said that he was in the middle of “10 or 20 houses” and if it had happened two weeks previously, then children would have been around the area.
Gardaí are appealing to anyone who was in the Chapelgate or Leeds Lane area between 9.30pm and 10.30pm last night to contact Mayfield Garda Station on 021 455 8510, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any garda station.
With reporting by Hayley Halpin
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Ballyvolane.. say no more.. the Beirut of Cork.
@Dingleberrycity: obviously not from the area or probably even Cork if you think Ballyvolane is considered the Beirut of Cork
@Dingleberrycity: Ah here, I’m from Ballyvolane! I know it has a bit of a rough name but it’s still Cork like…..
:)
@Patrick Daly: apologies to any Beirut people reading this article who may have been offended from being compared to Ballyvolane.
@Dingleberrycity: clown
@Patrick Daly: that all you got ?
@Dingleberrycity: go away ya suasage
@Dingleberrycity: did the jersey business go t1ts up?
@Dingleberrycity: you mustn’t know the city at all if you thing Ballyvolane is like Beirut?
@Dingleberrycity: obviously your not from cork!
@Dingleberrycity: have you been to Beirut ??
@Dingleberrycity: Ever been to Beirut ? It’s actually a very nice City.
Ballyvolane is a nice place as well
I just showed this article to my work colleagues in Houston to demonstrate how rare gun violence is in Ireland. They think it’s hilarious that this is even news worthy.
@Stephen O’Driscoll: Well done bud.
I’d say it’s a few young lads with a box of black cats and a cigarette lighter. Be Grand. Ploughing championships are the central distribution centre for these items.
@Damien O’Cáthail:
Where was the good guy with the Black Cat?
Probably PJ Coogan himself . Ratings ain’t so good an all
@Eugene Walsh: The Opinion Line is consistently the most popular talk show in Cork in the official JNLR figures but don’t let the facts get in the way of your crap!
@Martin Parfrey: Bullshit.
@ParSim: Bull my ar*e
@Martin Parfrey: Yes. It’s the most popular talk show in a fairly diverse and relatively small market. So? “Big in Japan” comes to mind…
Wouldn’t you think they’d invest in silencers. Upsetting people like that.
What was yer mans dog doing for the 3 or 4 minutes between hearing the shots and going mad barking ? Hiding ?
@Tommy Roche: loading up.
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