Gardaí are appealing for witnesses after two people were injured in a shooting in Newcastle West in Co Limerick yesterday.

A brother and sister were shot and wounded yesterday afternoon when a masked gunman opened fire in a busy housing estate in Co Limerick as children played nearby.

“THERE was a little fellow of five, a smaller fellow. They have been here about two months. We’d say hello passing. They seemed to be a quiet family. He was from around Milford and she was from Tournafulla.

AMUSING as it was to find a typical Swiftian nutshell encapsulating in a quatrain the perennial shenanigans of the builders opening Seamus McKenna’s analysis of what ails us (Letters, February 3), I think he does the good dean less than justice when he claims “he had less to say about economists, probably because Adam Smith had not yet invented that particular branch of study”.