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Gardaí investigate Clare shooting
Gardaí have begun an investigation after a number of shots were fired at a house in Co Clare in the early hours of yesterday morning.
The incident happened at about 1.20am at a house in Clonoughter, Cloonlara, which is situated between Killaloe and Limerick. Gardaí said that 14 shots were fired at the house, with most of the shots coming through the bedroom window and back door.
According to gardaí, there were three people in the house when the incident took place. No one was injured in the attack.
House-to-house inquiries have been conducted in the area and an appeal for witnesses has been issued. Anyone with information on the incident is asked to contact Mayorstone Garda station.
Three sought in gunpoint hold-up
Gardaí are hunting for three men after a father and son were taken from their beds and held up at gunpoint during an aggravated burglary at their home, writes Dara de Faoite.
Three armed and masked men broke into a house at Oakley Park, Graiguecullen, Carlow, shortly before midnight on Thursday and demanded money from the occupants.
"Two male occupants in the house were forced downstairs out of their beds," said Sgt Benny Mills of Carlow Garda station.
"A sawn-off shotgun and a screwdriver were put to their heads and they were repeatedly asked to hand over money," said Sgt Mills.
The men fled the scene after the eldest man explained that his wife was upstairs and that there was no money being kept in the house.
Lenihan recalls anti-Irish racism
Minister of State for Integration Conor Lenihan has spoken about racial abuse he suffered while working in London in the 1980s.
Speaking at a seminar in Dublin yesterday to examine ways of improving the lives of young foreign nationals in the inner city, he said he felt "powerless and isolated" at times by anti-Irish racism.
This had informed his attitudes to the experiences of foreign nationals here, whom he said could experience "far more toxic" racism than he had.
The Foreign National Young People (FNYP) group, which hosted yesterday's event, was started in Dublin's north inner city four years ago.
It grew from a neighbourhood youth project, run by local community activist Fergus McCabe. Mr McCabe said there had always been a need to look at the issues that particularly affected young people.