Armed gardaí patrol Charleville as family feuds are investigated

A number of separate family feuds have sparked the violence in the north Cork town in recent weeks

Uniformed gardaí and detectives from Mallow and Charleville are investigating the crimes. File picture: Collins

Gardaí have mounted armed patrols, high visibility checkpoints and drafted in detectives from around the county to tackle the family feuds which have sparked repeated violence in Charleville.

The incidents between the families so far have included masked men firing guns at and trying to set a property alight; badly injuring a child when attempting to break into her home armed with suspected slash hooks; a petrol bomb being thrown at a house in Knocknaheeny in Cork city; and shots fired between vehicles travelling near O’Rourke’s Cross on the N20 Charleville-Limerick Road.