Shoot in connection with a republican feud

The man critically Wounded at a shootout in West Belfast At the weekend the victim is said to have been a victim of a republican feud.

It happened on Sunday in Bell Steel Manor in Dunmurry around 10:30 GMT.

Republican network for unity, a political party with connections to the dissident organization Óglaigh Na Héireann (Onh) said the man was one of his members.

Onh has been associated with a series of weapons murders in Belfast in recent years, and there was a separation within the group last year.

It is believed that police patrols have been increased due to fears of further violence.

Sinn Féin Mla Danny Baker said that there is no “justification for groups of paramilitary gangs” and added that they had no support in the community.

“This is a brilliant, lively community and they don't want something like that,” he said Good morning Ulster.

“People have asked these groups and do not want these groups on their backs. They want them out of our communities, they want them to be dissolved.

“There is no place for them,” he said.

Peter McReynolds of the Alliance Party, who is sitting on the police board, told the Nolan show: “We can work with the police, support the police and keep the police up to date to ensure that these people are being brought to trial.”

“I think the police have done the paramilitary task force that has been set up in recent years.”