Bridget, 16, shot in leg, stomach and side

THE mother of a teenage girl who had a lucky escape when she was shot in a hail of pellets in Waterford described her attackers as “cowardly people.”

“They’re not men, they’re only rats,” Bridget Delaney Senior said.

She was speaking as her daughter was recovering from surgery in hospital after she was shot in her leg, stomach and in her side outside her home in Waterford city.