Neighbour to be charged with murder of Mary Dargan

A next door neighbour of a woman shot dead in an attack in which her daughter was also injured will appear in court this morning charged with murder and attempted murder.

The man, in his late 50s, was arrested at the scene of the shootings at the Killinarden Estate in Tallaght, Dublin, on Saturday afternoon after being overpowered by relatives and neighbours.

Mary Dargan, 66, died instantly of a shotgun blast to the head after she encountered a man who climbed over the garden wall of her terraced home and entered the back of the house at around 4pm.