Courier loses leg despite operation

THE brother of a courier shot by masked gunmen was preparing to tell him last night that despite the efforts of surgeons his leg would have to be amputated.

Patrick Dunne, 40, underwent an 11-hour emergency operation at Cork University Hospital on Thursday after raiders ambushed his vehicle, ransacked it and then blasted him in the back of the leg with a shotgun at point blank range.

Mr Dunne’s brother, Ted, said he had spoken to him before he went in for the operation.