Man shot and another stabbed in gang rift

ONE man was shot in the leg and another stabbed in the back in Co Tipperary yesterday as Limerick’s gang war spilled into the neighbouring county.

The man wounded by a bullet to the side of the head was rushed from a housing estate in Emly to the Mid-Western Regional Hospital where his condition was said to be stable.

Shortly after the incident, which happened at about 5pm, gardaí stopped a car on Tipperary Road, Ballysimon, and arrested five men, all in their 20s. One of those men was taken to hospital where he was treated for stab wounds to the back which medical sources said were not life threatening.