GARDAÍ INVESTIGATING an incident that led to man being shot by armed gardaí for refusing to drop a gun in a Cork city pub last month arrested two men yesterday.
A 29-year-old man, who was arrested shortly before midday in the south of the city, was being questioned about the illegal possession of a firearm, according to a Garda spokesman.
He was held at Gurranebraher Garda station, where he can be detained for up to seven days. Gardaí later arrested a man in his 30s over the same incident and held him in Gurranebraher station.
Last month’s incident happened when a man, armed with a loaded shotgun, entered the Mo Chuisle Bar near the bottom of Blarney Street on the city’s northside and demanded to see the owner of the pub.
Gardaí were alerted and members of the armed regional support unit were mobilised. They entered the pub where it is understood three armed members of the unit challenged the man and ordered him to drop his weapon.
The man refused to do so and one of the officers discharged a single shot, wounding the man in the stomach. The man was rushed by ambulance to Cork University Hospital where he underwent emergency surgery. The incident was the second in recent months in which shots were fired in the pub.