Garda stabbed and another kicked repeatedly in attacks

A GARDA was stabbed and a female colleague kicked in the head and body within hours of each other in two separate assaults in Cork.

Garda Dave Barry was stabbed in the hand and Garda Martin Cronin had his wrist broken when they were attacked by a man at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Dunmanway Co Cork last Sunday morning.

It has emerged an unnamed female garda was knocked to the ground and kicked in a vicious gang attack in a pub in Youghal just hours earlier.