Airline hostess viciously assaulted at hotel

AN American airline hostess was viciously assaulted in a four-star Limerick hotel by a man who had been with a party of mourners returning from a funeral.

The airline worker had flown into Shannon earlier in the day with an American Trans Airline flight taking US troops to the Middle East. Gardaí are satisfied that the attack was not related to the airline’s work with the US military.

The assault happened at the South Court Hotel, Raheen, at around 9pm on Tuesday night after the woman left the hotel restaurant and went to the toilet.