Men fire shots through children’s window

GUNMEN who fired shots into a family home in Dublin narrowly missed two sleeping children.

Men fire shots through children’s window

At least two rounds were fired through the bedroom window of the siblings, aged 11 and 12, in the pre-dawn attack on Saturday.

The incident happened at Silloge Road in Ballymun at 6.25am. Gardaí are looking for two men spotted running from the scene immediately afterwards.

None of the occupants of the house were hurt but they were deeply shocked by the incident. It is not yet clear what the motive was.

Across the city, two supermarket workers were tied up while raiders seized what gardaí described as a “substantial” quantity of cash.

The raid took place at the Superquinn store on Idrone Avenue, Knocklyon, on Dublin’s southside, shortly after 6am yesterday.

One of the raiders had a knife and the second appeared to have a gun.

The pair escaped with piles of notes in €10 and €5 denominations, possibly through the adjoining school grounds.

Gardaí are hopeful that CCTV footage will have picked up the raiders but in the meantime are asking businesses to be on the alert for individuals attempting cash transactions or purchases with large amounts of €5 and €10 notes.

Meanwhile, gardaí in Co Wicklow were last night continuing to question a man arrested after a sizeable quantity of cocaine was seized from a house in Roundwood on Saturday afternoon.

The drugs, worth an estimated €500,000, were discovered during a search as part of a joint operation between local detectives and members of the Garda National Drugs Unit.

The man, who is in his 30s, was arrested under the Drug Trafficking Act, which allows detectives to hold him in custody for up to seven days for questioning.

A separate garda operation ended well at the weekend when a taxi driver heard a missing person’s alert and brought a young autistic man to safety.

Stephen Pidgeon, from Dundrum in south Dublin, had been missing from his home since Friday. The taxi driver took him to a local garda station.

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