Gardaí suspect a woman beaten unconscious in a ferocious assault in Carlow on Sunday morning was attacked by a stranger.

GARDAÍ investigating a series of sex attacks in Galway city have appealed for the driver or occupants of a hackney car who may have witnessed the latest incident to contact them.

Two sex attackers indecently assaulted a 15-year-old girl as she walked to school yesterday, gardai said.