VIDEO: Revoking of gun licence behind 7-hour armed siege by 89-year-old farmer

A near seven-hour armed siege ended peacefully last night when an 89-year-old man walked out of his home after a shot was fired as gardaí went there to revoke his firearms licence.

According to Garda sources, at least one shot was “discharged” from the Co Cork home of Tom O’Callaghan shortly before lunchtime yesterday.

Gardaí retreated following the shooting at a farmhouse at Lower Bellmount, Crookstown. The elderly farmer then barricaded himself inside.