Gardaí are questioning a man in his 20s after a schoolboy was stabbed on his way home from school in Drogheda, Co Louth.

A 16-year-old schoolboy was last night in a serious condition in hospital after being stabbed in what gardaí said was an unprovoked attack on him as he walked home from school.

A teenager asked a group of young men, “who wants to be stabbed?” before stabbing five of them, a court was told yesterday.