Gardaí appeal for help in solving 'heinous' Tallaght shooting

Chief Superintendent John Manley has appealed for the public's help in solving the "particularly heinous crime" of the shooting dead of a teenage girl in Tallaght overnight.

A 16-year-old young girl - named locally as Melanie McCarthy, but also known by the surname McNamara - was shot in the head and was rushed into Tallaght Hospital where she later died.