'Wild West stuff' at Clare music festival as bystander shot in buttocks amid row over drug debt

Incident was over a debt and a row between two men about 'the same girl', court told

Tony McInerney, who the court heard was the leader of a large drug network in Co Clare, pleaded guilty in July to the attempted murder of Daniel Harty Junior at Pound Street, Sixmilebridge on January 18, 2020.

An innocent bystander was shot in the buttocks while others dived for cover when a drug dealer opened fire at another man during a music festival. 

The incident was over a debt and a row between two men about "the same girl", the Central Criminal Court was told on Monday.