Mom paralyzed shooting in front of young daughter swears 'not to let the scumbags win'

Sinead Connolly was shot three times in an attack on her Dublin home and doctors gave her an 8% chance of survival - but the brave mom now waiting to come home

Sinead Connolly in hospital following vicious shooting that left her in a wheelchair

A mother crippled when she was shot three times at home in front of her young daughter has vowed not to let the 'scumbags' win.

Sinead Connolly, 34, was shot three times in her home as her seven-year-old daughter Leah looked on in horror.

The mother-of-one died twice on the operating table as doctors raced to save her life before she went into a coma for 15 days.

At the time, she had an 8% chance of surviving after one of the bullets hit her lung, while another hit her spine.

Despite the violence, she said she was not a victim - but a survivor.

Sinead before filming in March 2020

She told the Irish Mirror: "They're bastards as far as I'm concerned. I'm so angry with them. They could have killed me, my friends and my child.

"They took away my independence and my time with my child. I used to walk around and do whatever a mother does for her child and I can't do any of that anymore now i missed making special memories things with her.

"I was hanging by a thread. My life has been hell since all this happened and I'm going to be in a wheelchair now for the rest of my life, but I'm not going to let win.

"I'm not a victim as far as I'm concerned, I'm a survivor and I'm going to move on and have a life with my little girl.

Faced with life in a wheelchair, she is currently awaiting two procedures to restore her independence, which could take three years.

Recalling for the first time the attack in Bluebell, south Dublin, on March 6, 2020, Sinead said her main concern was the safety of her baby daughter Leah.