Mother-of-three begs to be moved after gun attack

A LIMERICK mother-of-three yesterday pleaded to be re-housed due to a reign of terror being waged against her family.

Tracy Ryan wants to move out of O’Malley Park, Southill after her house was attacked by gunmen.

Ms Ryan, 38, said: “My eldest daughter was just on the way up to bed and was on the stairs when it happened. If the bullets had come through the front door she would have been killed. My other two children were asleep at the time.

She now lives in fear and refuses to answer the front door at night.

Tracey said: “We are too afraid to answer the door. They were outside the door again recently trying to frighten us. Even when detectives called one night I was too afraid to open the door.”

Just over eight months ago the home of another family member in Janesboro was blasted with a hand grenade.

Tracey was visiting at the time and narrowly escaped death.

She said: “We have been in O’Malley Park for five years, and this gang have smashed windows and kicked in the front door. They even try to intimidate my children on their way home from school.”

The front door of the family house bears the scars left from a shotgun blast.

“It is constant intimidation here and they are trying to draw relatives of mine out here by getting at me,” she said.

Extra garda patrols have been put in place in Southill recently following incidents involving gangs of youths who in one incident attacked firefighters.