Man and woman questioned about daylight knife attack

Detectives were questioning a man and a woman last night about a daylight knife attack on a woman in Cork City earlier this year.

The man, aged 21, and the woman, aged 20, were arrested in the Blarney area yesterday as part of an on-going Garda investigation into organised criminal activity and serious assaults in the Cork City area.

The pair was detained under the provisions of Section 50 of the Criminal Justice Act, 2007, which allows gardaí detain suspects for up to seven days.