Man stabbed and beaten at front door

A 27-YEAR-OLD Polish man was stabbed and beaten with baseball bats when he went to answer a knock at his front door.

Despite his injuries he refused to let gardaí take him to hospital, but later on he sought medical attention himself.

The attack happened when the man opened the front door of his rented house at Willow Grove Estate, on the western side of Ballincollig.