Pregnant woman fractures skull in street brawl

AN expectant mother was knocked unconscious and suffered a fractured skull in a street brawl involving up to 30 young people.

A hurley, a metal pipe and other weapons were recovered by gardaí after the fracas, which broke out in the Kilkenny village of Gowran over the weekend.

The young woman, who is seven months pregnant, was released from Beaumont Hospital yesterday, gardaí say. There is no threat to the life of her unborn child.