Two men arrested in Limerick yesterday in connection with a shooting incident at a Southill housing estate have been detained at Roxboro Garda station for questioning.
The attack, linked to an ongoing inter-family feud, resulted in a man in his 20s and a teenage girl receiving gunshot wounds.
The house in O'Malley Park, where the attack occurred, was also attacked on Christmas Day when shots were fired from a shotgun through a kitchen and sitting room window.
The incidents are part of a feud between two families in the city which is said to have its origins in an assault on a woman in the 1980s by a male member of one of the families. The woman lost an eye as a result. The feud now involves the extended families and in-laws.
Over the past four days, four shotguns have been seized by gardai. Three men arrested on Tuesday in relation to one of the weapon seizures were released yesterday. A file is being prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions.
The shooting incident on Tuesday resulted in head and upper-body injuries to the male victim, who had been visiting the family.
The injured man underwent surgery at Limerick Regional Hospital yesterday afternoon and was described as being in a stable condition. The girl underwent surgery at Cork University Hospital for the removal of pellets from her hand. In a separate incident, an arrest was made yesterday following a complaint made to gardai by a young man claiming to have been abducted from his home in the Ballinacurra Weston area of the city on Tuesday evening and beaten. He was not badly injured.