Midnight deadline on shooting charge

GARDAÍ have until midnight tonight before they must charge or release the partner of Charlie Wrench, the Englishman killed by a shotgun blast in north Cork on Monday night.

Following a telephone call, emergency services and gardaí discovered Mr Wrench in an upstairs bedroom of his house in Dromiscane, a rural area four miles outside Millstreet.

He had been shot in the upper body. It is understood his two children from a previous relationship, aged five and 10, were close to the house at the time.