Two people have been arrested after a woman was shot in the neck after a bullet was fired through the front window of her boyfriend’s family home, writes Eoin English of the Irish Examiner.

The victim, named by neighbours as Ciara Sheehan, who is in her 20s, remained in a serious but stable condition in Cork University Hospital (CUH) last night after the shooting incident, linked to a feud on the northside of Cork City.

Ms Sheehan was visiting her boyfriend, Dillon Cunningham, at his family home at Hollywood Estate in Hollyhill when the gunman struck just after 1am yesterday.

She was injured after a firearm was discharged outside the terraced house. A bullet hole was visible in a panel in the front room window. The porch door was also smashed.

She was rushed by friends in a car to CUH, where she underwent emergency surgery. A bullet removed from her neck has been sent for forensic analysis.

Detectives were last night still questioning a man and a woman who were arrested in a car together soon afterwards, on nearby Harbour View Rd.

The man, in his late 20s, and the woman, in her mid-20s, were both detained under the provisions of Section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act. The man was taken to Gurranabraher Garda Station while the woman was taken to the Bridewell Garda Station for questioning.

The car has been seized for forensic analysis and the scene of the shooting was also sealed off for a full forensic and technical examination.

Supt Con Cadogan, who is leading the investigation, described the injuries to the victim as non-life threatening but said she was “extremely lucky” not to have been more seriously injured.

He appealed for witnesses, or for anyone with information about the incident, to contact them.

“We are particularly appealing for anyone who was in or around the Hollywood Estate area between 12.30am and 1.15am on Sunday morning, to contact us,” he said.

The gun attack was described by concerned neighbours as a major escalation of an ongoing feud between one local young man and members of the Cunningham family, who he described as “good and decent neighbours”.

Local TD and Sinn Féin justice spokesman Jonathan O’Brien said his thoughts were with the victim of the shooting, who he said had become an innocent victim of the feud. He described the escalation of the feud as a worrying development and urged people to co-operate with gardaí.