Man playing soccer in Tipperary gets shot in the arm.

Yes he could sue for damages.

All responsible hunters who are members of gun clubs have insurance but untill the shooter is found we don't know if they were covered by insurance.

They absolutely are responsible for using a firearm without making sure the bullet didn't go astray.

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I think 2 miles is pushing it. Maybe just 2 kilometres, but enough velocity to injure or kill after two miles?

Work with someone who hunts dear and joked with him was he out hunting in Tipperary at the weekend. He said - "They were shooting rabbits or foxes. If it was a deer round they wouldn't have an arm anymore"

Right, fair enough. Didn't realise they were that powerful, didn't realise we'd so many Elmer Fudd's knocking around either!

No need to be snarky Flinty, I'm not familiar with distances bullets can travel, not everyone is, and it's hard to find out. But clearly you are and it's been an education, thanks for the info regarding bullets can travel up to 2 miles and still be lethal. Ireland is a small place and it's rare to be very far from other people or habitation, 2 miles is a long distance, I'm surprised.

I'm sure the decimation of this info along with this years incident and last years incident will be noted but hopefully won't have ramifications for the rest of the responsible hunting community.

With all due respect, Elmer Fudd is pretty soft for someone that managed to shoot someone playing soccer by mistake, it's exactly what Elmer Fudd would do. I'm sure he's been called much worse since the incident by most hunters, so I won't be apologising, but don't put me in the same basket as this idiot, I don't shoot and I don't shoot people by accident.

What's soft is throwing rocks from a glass house when you don't know how rocks work. Especially if you're not that keen on having rocks thrown back at you.

Maybe they should investigate why so many people playing football get injured. Seems dangerous statistically.

Flinty. Some moron shot a man in the arm by accident, that's much different to a football injury, it's beyond careless, bullets from guns are much more dangerous than regular on pitch soccer injuries, that's why it's in the news, that's why we're talking about it. Start a thread on football injuries, start an investigation if you want, but they're incomparable to this scenario... Stop trying to defend him, you're making the whole mess look worse.

Some counties not agreeing to Rule 27 being abolished over 50 years ago, maybe?

You didn't realise there are guns in Ireland

An Island that's had a war of Independence, a Civil War, decades of terrorism, a drugs war, gang warfare, and Garda finding machine guns, silenced machines guns. People getting shot and stabbed constantly in the news. Armed Garda in housing estates.

..but you're losing your mind about a rare freak accident...makes sense

It really doesn't matter what people who don't carry firearms know about what happens when a bullet is fired.

What is important is that those who do carry firearms know what they are doing.

You're dead right Flinty. I didn't realise there were morons with guns that propelled bullets for two miles in Ireland. I thought most hunting rifles were in the hands of sensible reasonable people that understand physics, gravity, velocity etc... But you've educated us all and are keeping the thread alive & shining a light on what seems to be a serious problem. The hunting community will thank you.

Accidents happen...but owning a firearm in Ireland is a privilage, not a right. If fired incorrectly a .22 could possibly travel a mile or more, if in this case where the culprit claims it was fired it from a wooded area, it was a freak accident.

If some eejit fires it up and over the brow of a hill, then what goes up must come down and such an eejit is not fit to hold a firearm.

The man that got shot was very very lucky

The gun owner is also lucky and will respect his rifle in future, should he continue to hold a firearm licence