Crime gang member to flee Spain after shooting

A low-ranking member of a criminal gang is anxious to leave his hospital bed in Spain and return to Ireland after surviving a bungled murder attempt.

Michael O’Driscoll, 27, from Dublin’s north inner city, was drinking with a woman in a pub in Torremolinos, Spain, on Saturday night when a masked gunman singled him out and opened fire.

Police believe it was an amateur gun attack and that the would-be assassin bungled his attempt, only inflicting relatively minor injuries on his target.