Shots fired at Traveller halting site after acquittal

Shots were fired on a Traveller halting site and tensions are running high after a man who lives on the site was acquitted of a machete attack on another resident.

Members of the garda armed Regional Support Unit spent several hours at the Spring Lane halting site on the northside of Cork city yesterday after the shooting incident.

It is understood that the incident is linked to a court case earlier, in which a man accused of attacking another man on the halting site with a machete, cutting off one of his fingers, was cleared of the charge.