'Moment of madness': Man gets suspended sentence for making bogus call about gangland shooting

Eleven garda units, a fire brigade truck and an ambulance raced to the scene after Brendan Treacy made the crank call from his mobile phone two years ago.

'Moment of madness': Man gets suspended sentence for making bogus call about gangland shooting

-with reporting from Isabel Hayes

A drug addict who made a bogus emergency call about a gangland member being shot in a Dublin pub has been given a suspended sentence.

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