'Crack crazy' shooter opened fired on dad-of-two at door of own home, court hears

Joseph Richards, aged 35 and from Lanesborough Square in Finglas, Dublin, pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to conspiracy to murder Robert Sheridan, a 45-year-old father of two, who was fatally shot at his home in Ballymun on 5 October 2018. The killing occurred after Mr Sheridan answered his patio door, having been forewarned by gardaí of a threat to his life and armed himself with a knife in…