Three men are due to appear before Limerick District Court at 3pm today, charged in connection with a suspected gangland attack.
Members of the specialist armed intervention unit backed up by the Regional Support Unit were involved in a high-speed chase during which a car was rammed off the road at Drombanna, Ballyneety, Co Limerick, shortly after 1pm last Wednesday.
A 9mm handgun and a quantity of ammunition were found in the car in which three men and one woman were travelling.
All four who are in their mid-20s were arrested. Two of the men are members of the McCarthy-Dundon criminal gang. The woman arrested remains in custody.
A member of the Garda Emergency Response Unit was hospitalised during the course of the incident. The garda received medical treatment at the Mid-Western Regional Hospital in Limerick.
The four suspects had travelled from the city to the area to collect a gun destined for use in a revenge attack following Monday night’s shooting in which Daniel Phillips was critically injured. The 20-year-old suffered gunshot wounds to his head and stomach when a gunman on a bicycle fired into the car he was driving.
The shooting occurred at 9.30pm on Monday near St John’s Square in the city.