Young mother used homemade ‘shiv’ to stab friend 22 times

A mother repeatedly stabbed her friend 22 times with a homemade “shiv” in a vicious and horrific attack in an Ennis playground earlier this year.

Mother of a nine-month-old baby girl, Charlene Sherlock, aged 23, assaulted Nicole Keane, 22, after accusing her of cheating on Ms Keane’s boyfriend who is also Ms Sherlock’s brother.

Using what a senior garda described as a “shiv”, Ms Sherlock slashed and stabbed Ms Keane in the face, neck and torso in a drunken attack in a playground area of the Holy Family Primary School on Station Road, Ennis, on Apr 13, 2013.