Polish stab victim ‘lucky to be alive’

A 21-YEAR-OLD man is “extremely lucky to be alive” after being stabbed just metres from his Kilkenny apartment, which he shares with his mother and sister.

Gardaí have arrested three local youths in connection with the attack, which happened in the city at about 9pm on Wednesday. The three — two men and a woman — are all aged in their early 20s and at least some of them live in the same apartment block as the victim.

Gardaí said the victim, from Poland, had an altercation with local youths on a stairwell at Lower New Street Apartments.