Cork-born soldier killed by single training range shot

An Irishman serving with the British Army was shot and killed by a single machine gun bullet to the head at a non-combat zone within an army training range, an inquest heard.

Michael “Mike” Maguire, 21, originally from Co Cork, was hit in the temple by a shot probably fired by a fellow soldier attacking a static target one kilometre away.

The shooting happened at the Castlemartin Ranges in Pembrokeshire, west Wales, in May last year.