Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald: Gun attack on PSNI officer was ‘despicable’

The Tánaiste and the Garda Commissioner yesterday condemned a reckless shooting in the North which left a PSNI officer with gunshot wounds to his arm.

Frances Fitzgerald described the attack as “despicable”, while Nóirín O’Sullivan said the shooting was “a matter of sadness and shock”.

Ms O’Sullivan said the shooting comes on the week of the fourth anniversary of the murder of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe in north Louth by a cross-border crime gang.