Farmer admits playground shooting

A farmer has admitted that he shot a five-year-old boy in the head at a school playground near Enniskillen more than two years ago.

At a court hearing in June, Fergus Cleary, 73, of Ballydoolagh Road, Garvary, denied unlawfully and maliciously wounding Darragh Somers.

But it has emerged that at a hearing last week, he pleaded guilty. He will be sentenced on 13 November.

Darragh was critically injured and spent two months in hospital.

He was shot in the back of the head as he played at St Patrick's Primary School, Mullanaskea in April 2005.