Violent weekend leaves two dead, one critical

Gardaí have arrested a number of people in Cork and Mayo following a violent bank holiday weekend which saw two men stabbed in unrelated incidents in Cork and a man shot dead in Mayo.

In Cork, a 31-year-old man was killed after he was stabbed in a row that spilled out onto a city street in the early hours of yesterday.

The man was named as Mark Hanlon from Lotamore in Mayfield on the northside of Cork City. A man and a woman arrested at the scene, both in their mid-20s, were being questioned by gardaí last night in relation to the incident that started with a row in an apartment on Infirmary Road, between the South Infirmary-Victoria University Hospital and South Terrace.