Machete-wielding group lay siege to house after assault

A MACHETE-wielding group stormed the front garden of a house on Christmas Day after a boy was badly assaulted in a long-standing feud, it was claimed yesterday at Limerick District Court.

Cousins Jason Hanlon, aged 21, and Craig Hanlon, aged 19, were brought to the court in custody on charges of assault and causing criminal damage to a house.

A solicitor for the two claimed a Hanlon family home had been set upon by a number of people wielding machetes on Christmas Day. However, a Garda witness alleged the Hanlon family were the main aggressors in an ongoing feud in which a house belonging to a neighbouring family had been shot at on two occasions.