GARDAÍ ARE investigating an incident in which a shot was fired near an unmarked Garda patrol car in Cork city on Sunday. Gardaí from Anglesea Street station were near a halting site at Carrigrohane Road at midnight when a Volkswagen Golf pulled up and a shot was fired in the air.
Nobody was injured in the incident.
The car from which the shot was fired was later found burned out at the Currykippane cemetery in Clogheen. The vehicle had been stolen earlier in the night from a premises on the southside of the city.
Gardaí cordoned off the road where the shooting occurred and a forensics team was yesterday carrying out an investigation. The burned-out car was also removed to a secure area and forensically examined. Anyone with any information is asked to contact gardaí in Togher on (021) 4947120.
This is the second shooting incident in Cork this month. In a separate occurrence on October 5th a lone gunman pulled up on a motorbike outside the Macushla Bar on Blarney Street on the northside of the city.
The gunman warned people to stay away before he produced a sawn-off shotgun and fired at least one shot at a window in the bar. He then sped off in the direction of Shandon Street. Nobody was injured and gardaí were on the scene within minutes.