Mirror
Claire O'Boyle and Michelle Nic Phaidin
A MAN lured into the hills and blasted with a shotgun yesterday managed to stagger more than a mile to safety. Liam Copeland McGinley, 28, was shot at a remote spot between Milford and Ramelton, Co Donegal, at around 2am. Doctors confirmed he had emergency surgery for major injuries to his liver and was in intensive care. His condition was last night said to be serious but stable.
Mr McGinley was around 16km from his Letterkenny home when he was shot in the side, dumped on a dirt track and left for dead. But the victim struggled more than a mile to a farmhouse in Glendon to get help. The owner brought him to a cabbie who drove him to hospital.
A local source who saw the blood-soaked Mr McGinley said: "He was pale and all of his clothes were dirty. The farmer is an elderly man, he would be in his 70s. He was in shock and didn't know what to do. He could not make out what he was saying - he was babbling and covered in blood. "The house is in the middle of nowhere - it is amazing that he found it at all."
Mr McGinley was treated at Letterkenny General Hospital where staff also alerted gardai to the shooting. He was transferred to Dublin's Mater Hospital and was being treated in intensive care last night. Gardai searched the area last night with a helicopter and sniffer dogs for clues about the gunman's identity.
Gardai were said to be "keeping an open mind" over the motive for the shooting.
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