Teenager appears in court charged with possessing sawn-off shotgun

A 15-year-old Dublin boy arrested for possessing a sawn-off shotgun has appeared in court today.

The boy, who cannot be named because he is a minor, was charged at the Children’s Court with two offences under the Firearms Act for possessing a single barrel sawn-off shotgun, and one round of ammunition, on April 18 last, at Deansrath Road, in Clondalkin, in Dublin.