‘I want to show you impact of gun attack on my daughter’

“This is my daughter Ciara. I would just like to show you the impact of this.”

It was an image that spoke volumes, the photograph of innocent victim Ciara Sheehan, 21, shot in the neck at the weekend, lying in her hospital bed at Cork University Hospital (CUH),

Her distraught mother Susan O’Mahony shared the image with the Irish Examiner so readers could see the awful aftermath of the injury to her daughter, shot while visiting her boyfriend’s house in the northside of Cork city in the early hours of Sunday morning.