Drunken man returned to pub with shot gun to shoot customer

ON LEAVING a Limerick pub after an argument, a drunken customer armed himself with a loaded sawn-off shot gun, put on a balaclava and returned to shoot the man he had rowed with.

When he burst into the pub with the gun, the man he wanted to shoot was seated with a five-year-old child on his lap, Limerick Circuit Court heard.

With the help of the child’s mother, the intended victim managed to overpower the gunman, Garret Fitzgerald.