File To Be Prepared For DPP In Relation To Raid In Hollyhill

Gardai are to prepare a file for the DPP after releasing without charge three men arrested for questioning in relation to an incident in which a house in Cork was attacked last week and a man was threatened in an online video.

The three men, two in their 40s and one in his late teens were arrested by gardai during a major search of St Anthony's Park Halting Site in Hollyhill on Cork's northside involving up to 60 officers including armed members of the Emergency Response Unit.

Gardai also recovered a rifle and a shotgun along with ammunition hidden in a communal area at the halting site as well as up to 20 slashhooks, machetes and knives which they believe may have been used in an attack on a house in the city on Friday night.

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