Takeaway owner stabbed

THE owner of a takeaway who asked a gang to move away from his premises was beaten and stabbed over the weekend.

Tony Chong, who is in his mid-30s and runs the popular Canton Chinese takeaway in the Hollyhill Shopping Centre on Cork’s northside, was lucky to survive.

A Garda spokesman said they are satisfied the attack was not racially motivated and are following a definite line of inquiry. He described it an “opportunist attack of wanton violence”.