Gardaí question five after shooting

FIVE men were being questioned last night following the latest Dublin shooting linked to a gangland feud, with gardaí on high alert in case the bloody criminal dispute escalates further.

The five men were arrested, as they travelled in two cars in Ballyfermot, within minutes of a 20-year-old man being shot in the lower body in a field in Cherry Orchard, west Dublin, on Monday night.

Gardaí in Ballyfermot received a call just before 10pm on Monday claiming gunshots had been heard in the proximity of Cherry Orchard Hospital. At the scene officers found a man, understood to be 20-year-old Mark Fagan from Windmill Road in Crumlin, with a gunshot wound lying in an area to the rear of Unit 1 of the hospital.