Man cycled down street looking for people to shoot

A man armed with a sawn-off shotgun roamed Limerick on a pedal bike in broad daylight, seeking to shoot people. He wounded one man on a busy street while the victim was chatting to a group including young girls, one with special needs.

Some hours later, after being chased on his bike, he pulled the gun on gardaí telling them he would have killed somebody had he not been arrested.

Jason Freyne said: “I was going to leave off a shot at them, the gardaí, that were chasing me.”