A seven-month-old baby narrowly avoided being shot dead when gunmen sprayed a house with bullets in an attack gardaí likened to “a gangster movie”.

A woman is lucky to be alive after a bullet grazed her back as 15 shots were fired in to her home.

Two women and five children escaped uninjured after shots were fired at their house in Drogheda, Co. Louth.

Gardaí are investigating a shooting incident in Drogheda, Co. Louth, yesterday.