Four teenagers to face court in connection with pensioner assaults

Four teenagers are due in court this morning in connection with two assaults on pensioners in Athlone.

A taxi driver in his seventies was stabbed a number of times early on Tuesday after picking up two men on Church Street in the town.

Later that day, three youths armed with a firearm and an iron bar threatened and assaulted a shop keeper in his seventies on the Ballymahon Road.

The four youths - aged between 15 and 18 - are due in Mullingar District Court at 11am.