Gardaí appeal for witnesses after young woman struck in face by firework

The young woman has suffered serious injury as a result of the incident. Picture Denis Minihane.

Gardaí are appealing for witnesses after a young woman was struck in the face by a firework in Galway City overnight.

A firework struck a young woman who was sitting at a bus stop near the taxi rank at the top of Eyre Square shortly after midnight on Friday morning October 22.