Gardaí examine loaded shotgun dumped in bin

GARDA ballistics experts are examining a loaded sawn-off double-barrel shotgun, found dumped in a bin on the southside of Cork city, to see if had been fired in previous crimes.

However, a senior garda yesterday ruled out that it was the same gun used in a recent raid on the Bank of Ireland branch in Glanmire. CCTV footage taken from the scene of that robbery showed that weapon to be a different type of shotgun.

And gardaí already know that the weapon which killed suspected drug dealer Darren Falsey in Carrigaline on August 3 last was a 9mm handgun, which was probably fitted with a silencer.