Three men wounded in Dublin shootings

Three men were being treated in hospital last night after separate shooting incidents in south Dublin.

Two men were injured, one seriously, when attackers on a motorbike opened fire on them at a house in Knocknarea Road, Drimnagh, shortly before 5pm yesterday.

An earlier shooting happened at St Martin's Park, Kimmage, on Sunday night, where a 25-year-old man received gunshot wounds while sitting in his car.

A Garda spokeswoman said there was no evidence to suggest the incidents were related.

In the Drimnagh shooting, the men targeted were servicing a vehicle in a driveway when a "moped or motorbike" with two men on board approached them.

The pillion passenger fired a number of shots at the men, who were taken to St James's Hospital with gunshot wounds.

Last night, a spokeswoman for the hospital said both men were "stable".

Gardaí at Sundrive Station are appealing for information from anyone who saw two men on a moped or motorcycle, wearing blacked-out helmets, in the Drimnagh area between 4.50pm and 6pm.

In the Kimmage attack, the injured party was sitting in his car outside a house when he was shot at least once in the chest.

He too was taken to St James's, where his condition last night was also described as stable.