Government criticised as stabbed sergeant recovers

THE sergeant stabbed by a man on Sunday who then took his own life, is expected to make a full recovery — but the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors has slammed the Government’s continued failure to protect officers with proper health and safety measures.

Trevor Clancy of Pike Road, Fermoy, Co Cork, stabbed Sgt John Liston in the abdomen after the garda responded to a call that the young man had been refused entry to a nightclub in the north Cork town.

He and another garda spoke to the 26-year-old at Pearse Square but the young man would not hand over two knives he was carrying.