Two young boys saw their father repeatedly slashed across the face with a carpet knife in an unprovoked assault at a daylight “ambush” at a graveyard in Ennis two years ago.

One garda was used as a “human shield” from a hatchet-wielding 16-year-old while gardaí were powerless to prevent another man slashing his victim 11 times across the face and back with a Stanley knife in broad daylight.

A 20-year-old man appeared in court yesterday charged in connection with slashing another man on the face with a Stanley knife as part of an ongoing Traveller feud.

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A MISTAKEN belief that Clare’s animal welfare officer had confiscated a pedigree dog led an Ennis man to carry out an “unprovoked and frightening” roadside attack.

FIVE children and their parents are being forced to sleep in the back of a van because their damp mobile home has become infested with rats.

An elderly woman who died after she was struck by a car in Co Donegal last night had apparently stopped at the scene to pay her respects to a friend who died in the area two days previously.

Derry boss Mickey Moran has announced a training panel for the coming months which is constituted largely by young players from the Oak Leaf County.