Shooting in Carlow

Will_I_Amnt

Someone walked into Tesco at Fairgreen Shopping Centre in Carlow town and started shooting the place up. Shot dead by Garda Armed Response Unit. Unconfirmed reports that another 6 people had been shot by him. No reports of any other fatality.

Carlow town (where I am) is in lockdown.

Seems to be a media blackout on it at the moment.

ACitizenErased

Reports of at least one person shot so far.
paul byrne mustn’t have received the blackout memo

https://x.com/paulbyrne_1/status/1929243649507803373?s=46

New Scottman

There's some stuff about it in on Twitter. Pretty much along the same lines as what you've said. Some video mentions a shooting in Sports Direct. Is that near?

ACitizenErased

blackout lifted, one man dead and army bomb disposal en route

https://x.com/mickthehack/status/1929243835843961023?s=46

Raichų

what has this country come to.

Hungry Burger

This country is getting more dangerous by the day.

Will_I_Amnt

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123506557#Comment_123506557

Same shopping centre

Raichų

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123506571#Comment_123506571

sure remember when it was a point in favour of gun control that European countries don’t deal with the mass shooting attacks America does?

Well… maybe that’s changing? Of course I’m being pretty hyperbolic, but it’s terrifying to imagine. I visit the fairgreen often with my family. I will have a hard time doing that going forward as I imagine plenty will.

Notmything

All sorts of rumours and scaremongering about, videos of the shooting(s) doing the rounds as well

The usual suspects are pushing the "it was a furriner" narrative as well on Facebook and X.

Was there this morning myself.

Whocare

Probably non Irish I bet

Mod Edit: Warned and banned for breach of forum charter

StrawbsM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123506613#Comment_123506613

Last tweet from RTÉ was 2 hours ago and it was about the weather. Lots of other news media reporting it.

Will_I_Amnt

https://twitter.com/punishablepress/status/1929245680960217124?t=PWB6BdJNlMD6-B1u2YVupA&s=08

Cameras have been forced away

Allinall

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123506571#Comment_123506571

County, not County.

Dublin is fine.

breezy1985

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123506635#Comment_123506635

Which ones ?

LambshankRedemption

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123506635#Comment_123506635

It's the Sunday of a bank holiday. The news desk in RTE is being manned by Bosco and he can't reach the controls to turn on the cameras.

StrawbsM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123506647#Comment_123506647

KCLR, breaking news, the journal, the mirror, tullamore tribune, etc, etc, etc

some random drunk

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2025/0601/1516220-carlow-shooting/

Reported now on RTE website.

Shooting took place in Tesco. Multiple shots fired.

Seems the man shot himself.

The injured child's injuries are not life threatening. RTE unsure if the child was shot or how the child sustained injuries , ie in the panic evacuating.

Edit: additional details

Strumms

story on RTÉ at 8pm… the perpetrator is dead, self inflicted gunshot wound. One child injured…

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2025/0601/1516220-carlow-shooting/

breezy1985

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123506660#Comment_123506660

Thanks. Didn't think of checking the locals.

Jim_Hodge

From RTE

Probe after man dies in shooting incident, child injured

Notmything

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2025/0601/1516220-carlow-shooting/

RTE finally finished their lunch break and are back at work

Live in Carlow and so far I've heard there were 7 shot, there's more than one shooter, they shot themselves, the gardai shot him, the gardai should have disarmed him, there are more out there waiting to go on shooting sprees..…and thats without the racist agenda which is jumped on straight away.

Because the "mainstream" media are so slow to report anything it's giving those with agendas spaces to get their version out.

3 different people sent me links or screenshots of that dirt bag Bligh reporting on it.

breezy1985

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123506674#Comment_123506674

Or maybe they have to wait foe actual facts.

Thankfully most people don't have friends following racists on Twitter.

ACitizenErased

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123506676#Comment_123506676

Garda press release was released 30 mins before RTE even mentioned it anywhere to be fair regardless of what's on twitter

Notmything

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123506676#Comment_123506676

Missing the point. Don't need to be following them to see their message. They're getting their racist messages out while the media are still having to do due diligence.

pjohnson

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123506674#Comment_123506674

Is it bad I laughed and imagined Bligh himself rattling off all the contradictions as facts, while himself completely oblivious to the fact he was contradicting himself?

LambshankRedemption

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123506690#Comment_123506690

Attributed to Churchill but not actually:

"a lie will gallop halfway round the world before the truth has time to pull its breeches on"

Seattle

By the way, I understand why RTE are slow to report on this because of the riots a couple of years ago after that attack in Dublin. But I don't agree with them being this slow (it's still not on their website at the time of this post), it will look to some that they're hiding something and will only confirm the biases of the right wing conspiratorial nutjobs online, who are already extremely distrustful of mainstream media.

Edit: it seems like they finally reported on it, at 20.11 (much later than other media organisations) and it's still not the main news headline.

Notmything

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123506695#Comment_123506695

Hopefully you're not the only one laughing at him

briany

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123506676#Comment_123506676

A lie gets half way around the world before the truth has a chance to put its pants on…

LambshankRedemption

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123506700#Comment_123506700

The reason they are slow to report this is everyone is on holiday and not expecting any news this weekend. Presumably the webmaster was on-call and hurriedly put up a post when paged.

Despite their massive budget having a round the clock news desk was deemed too costly.

LambshankRedemption

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123506705#Comment_123506705

I bet you to it 😉