A Ballincollig man accused of a gun attack in Limerick City told gardaí that firearm residue found on his hand came from a shotgun he used days previously when out late at night shooting at trees on a Co Cork farm, a court heard.

A four-week-old baby narrowly escaped shotgun pellets which hit the seat in which she had been placed earlier, a court heard.

A man was shot and wounded after he went to the front door of his house to have a cigarette, Limerick Circuit Court heard yesterday.