Woman shot in neck gives evidence: ‘I felt my throat was getting all tight, my face was burning’

A woman has described being shot in the neck as a Cork man went on trial on charges arising out a shot being fired through the front room window of a house in Cork City.

Ciara Sheehan, the injured party, testified: “We were talking in the front room. I was standing in front of the window. I heard a loud bang. We ran towards the kitchen. I felt my throat was getting all tight, my face was burning. I touched my neck, there was blood on my hands. That is when I realised I got shot in the neck.

“Dylan [Ms Sheehan’s boyfriend] brought me to his mam’s car in the back and we drove to the CUH. I had surgery twice, the bullet was still stuck in my neck. I was five or six days in hospital.”