Child seriously injured in Charleville attack 'doing well' following surgery 

12-year-old girl was in her home when masked men armed with suspected slash hooks broke in and left her seriously injured

The girl was transferred for emergency surgery from Cork University Hospital to Children’s Health Ireland at Temple Street in Dublin with a suspected fractured skull and brain bleed. File picture

A child seriously injured when masked men armed with suspected slash hooks broke into her Cork home is recovering in hospital following emergency surgery.

The 12-year-old girl was in her home in Charleville, north Cork, on Monday night when five men in balaclavas started attacking a car outside and then broke into the house.