Shot fired from homemade gun during Garda search of Cork home

Opening of sentencing hearing for father and three sons hears gardaí also recovered 20 live shotgun rounds, one discharged shotgun cartridge, 23 petrol bombs, pitchforks, slash-hooks, and a broken pool cue

James Keenan appearing at Cork Court on firearms charges. Picture: Cork Courts

A homemade gun known as a slam-bang shotgun was one of the lethal items found during the search of a house in Rochestown, Cork, where a shot was discharged by a man when gardaí were present.

That was part of the evidence given by Detective Inspector Garda Daniel Coholan at Cork Circuit Criminal Court at the opening of the sentencing hearing for a father and three sons on various charges arising out of the incident at dinner time on Thursday, April 29, 2021.