Charges expected over three stabbings

Gardaí are hoping to bring charges in connection with three stabbings since Christmas Eve which left two men dead, one in intensive care, and another seriously injured.

In the most recent incident, a 22-year-old man sustained stab wounds in the early hours of yesterday on the main square in Thurles, Co Tipperary.

The man was attacked on Liberty Square after a night socialising in the town in what gardaí suspect is a local, Traveller-related row.