Garda patrols have been stepped up on the northside of Cork City amid retaliation fears after the shooting of an innocent young woman at the weekend.

Two people have been arrested after a woman was shot in the neck after a bullet was fired through the front window of her boyfriend’s family home, writes Eoin English of the Irish Examiner.

UPDATE: Gardaí investigating the shooting of an innocent young woman in a house in Cork city yesterday have recovered a firearm.