A father of 15 has been charged over an alleged feud related shooting in Dublin which left a mother, a baby and a teenager injured.
Dan Donovan (48), formerly of Parslickstown Gardens in Dublin 15, is accused of having a shotgun in his possession and threatening to kill at Parslickstown Green in Mulhuddart at about 12.35pm on Monday.
He allegedly pointed a gun at a man’s head and said “I’ll bury you forever”, Dublin District Court heard.
A woman, an infant child and a 17-year-old male suffered non-life threatening injuries in the incident in a residential area which has houses and parking bays for Traveller accommodation.
Mr Donovan appeared before Judge Bryan Smyth on Wednesday evening and faced objections to bail from investigating gardaí, who cited the seriousness of the offences.
The firearms charge carries a 14-year sentence while the threat kill can result in a term of up to 10 years in jail, the court heard.
When charged Mr Donovan replied: “That’s all lies. That’s all shit talk.”
Ongoing feud
Garda Michael Jones alleged that Mr Donovan’s family was involved in an ongoing feud with members of the Collins family over a “clandestine relationship between a man and a woman with an intellectual disability”.
A statement from Lisa Marie Power, the partner of Michael Collins who lives in Parslickstown, was read out as part of the Garda objection to bail. It alleged that words were exchanged at Parslickstown Gardens and that a woman with a gun fired a shot at Mr Collins through a fence.
In her statement, she said he ducked and she heard a teenage boy say he had been been shot. She said a baby boy was also shot and she saw blood on his leg.
Garda Jones said the baby has gunshot pellets in his leg.
The court heard the witness claimed the accused then took the gun off the woman and pointed it at Mr Collins’s head and said: “I’ll bury you forever”.
Defence barrister Oisin Clarke applied for bail and told the court his client was on social welfare but could provide €1,000. The judge granted bail in the sum of in his own bond of €500 along with a €5,000 independent surety.
He was remanded in custody with consent to bail and will face his next hearing at Cloverhill on December 19th. He was ordered by Judge Smyth to reside at an address furnished to the court, stay away from all prosecution witnesses - members of the Collins family and their extended family, stay away from Blanchardstown area and sign-on daily at a Blessington Garda station in Co Wicklow.
A 23-year-old woman arrested in Co Wicklow as part of the investigation into the incident remained in Garda custody on Wednesday.