Shoppers take cover as family ‘throw bottles of wine’ in row with others

Wheelchair users and elderly people were caught up in the crossfire at a busy Ennis shopping centre as bottles of wine flew through the air, a court has heard.

At Ennis District Court, Garda Michael Daniels described the mid-morning pre-Christmas panic at the Ennis shopping centre which was put on lockdown mode as two families confronted each other in the centre’s main foyer.

In court, three members of the Delaney family, two members of the Keenan family, along with two juveniles, appeared in relation to being charged with affray and engaging in insulting and abusive behaviour at the shopping centre.