Garda injured in ‘deplorable’ gun attack

THREE gardaí narrowly missed being shot after bullets were fired at a Dublin house in an attack described as “deplorable” by the Garda Commissioner.

The shooting took place in the Greenfort Close estate in Clondalkin at 1.15am yesterday, when gardaí, responding to a call at a house, were forced to take cover when a man discharged a handgun into the house.

One of them, understood to be a sergeant, received injuries to his hands and body from flying glass after five shots were fired into the hallway where the gardaí were standing talking to the resident of the house.