Two men being held in connection with violent sex attacks

TWO men were being questioned by gardaí in Cork last night about vicious assaults on two women within hours of each other before Christmas.

The men, in their 20s, were arrested yesterday for questioning in connection with the sexual assault of a young woman in the grounds of a city church, and an aggravated assault on another woman earlier near a city hospital on December 3 last.

Detectives swooped on two addresses in Mallow and Kanturk in north Cork early yesterday morning.