Mother and baby escape injury in hail of gunfire

A seven-month-old baby narrowly avoided being shot dead when gunmen sprayed a house with bullets in an attack gardaí likened to “a gangster movie”.

The baby’s mother had leaned down to care for the child when up to 15 shots were fired into her home, one of them grazing her back.

“If she was standing up with the baby, we could have been looking at the murder of a baby and a mother,” a Garda source said.