Tributes paid to creche worker stabbed while shielding small children from knife attack

Leanne Flynn from Dublin’s north inner city was hospitalised following the incident outside Gaelscoil Choláiste Mhuire on Parnell Square off O’Connell Street on Thursday. Picture: Cabra Boxing Club Facebook

A GoFundMe for the creche worker and children injured in last Thursday's horror knife attack has already raised almost €240,000 of a €500,000 target.

Tributes have poured in for the brave creche worker who used her body as a human shield to protect the three small children who were attacked.