Boys saw father slashed in face at graveyard ‘ambush’

Two young boys saw their father repeatedly slashed across the face with a carpet knife in an unprovoked assault at a daylight “ambush” at a graveyard in Ennis two years ago.

In the horrific assault, James Galbraith, aged 36, of Lissaniska, Ennis, sustained two long slash wounds across his left cheek to his ear and the scars were visible at Ennis Circuit Court yesterday.

Garda Colin Egan witnessed Mr Galbraith getting a hockey stick blow to the forehead that sparked what he described as “complete mayhem” at Drumcliffe cemetery involving between 15 to 20 people on August 27, 2013.