The man accused of trying to kill three members of a Traveller family by firing a sawn off shotgun at them says he was never in their halting site the day Garda allege the shooting happened, a court has heard.

The spokesman for a Traveller family at the centre of a triple attempted murder trial has been asked about his family’s ability to communicate telepathically.

Traveller families at the centre of an attempted murder trial were fighting over a damaged caravan a court has heard.