Gardaí quiz man over fatal stabbing of shop manager

A 27-year-old man was being questioned last night by gardaí investigating the murder of a woman who was attacked and stabbed while working in a shop in Kilkenny’s city centre.

Relatives and friends of the family of Máiréad Moran, aged 26, assistant manager at the Holland and Barrett health shop in Kilkenny, were yesterday comforting her grief-stricken parents and sisters following the violent death of the single woman on Thursday night.

It’s understood Ms Moran, who was originally from Kilmaganny in Co Kilkenny but living in the city for a number of years, was stabbed a number of times in the chest by a man who entered the shop where she was working at about 8.30pm on Thursday.