Appeals for calm after Blanchardstown shooting

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said he was “horrified” by the shooting of an eight-month-old baby boy which happened in his constituency.

“This was a shocking incident. I was horrified to learn about it,” he said about an attack in a settled Traveller’s residential area in Blanchardstown, at lunchtime on Monday.

The incident also saw the child’s mother, Lynn Doyle, 29, and Matthew Collins, 17, hit by more than a dozen shotgun pellets.