City’s Irish community ‘wary, but not afraid’

THE Irish community in Washington was in shock again yesterday after the Beltway Sniper struck for the 13th time.

Families in the Montgomery suburb have been taking children out of school after a bus driver was shot at a motorway layby.

Brian Gaffney, from Tralee, Co Kerry, manager of Nanny O’Brien’s pub in west DC, said that his daughter’s school was under “rain day collection”, where parents had to collect their children at the door of the school every day.