{"id":145401,"date":"2025-11-17T23:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T23:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/145401\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T23:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T23:42:08","slug":"two-critically-injured-in-stabbing-attack-outside-their-cork-home-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/145401\/","title":{"rendered":"Two critically injured in stabbing attack outside their Cork home \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\">Garda\u00ed<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/cork\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/cork\">Cork<\/a> are investigating a stabbing incident which left a couple believed to be in their 70s in a critical condition in hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The incident happened in the Shrewsbury Downs estate off the Ballinlough Road on the city\u2019s southside at around 9.30pm when a man in his 30s is believed to have attacked the couple outside their home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A number of neighbours saw the incident and rang the emergency services. Officers from the Armed Support Unit (ASU) from Anglesea Street Garda station were among the first to arrive on the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Members of the ASU disarmed the suspect \u2013 who was known to the couple \u2013 and quickly began performing CPR on the injured man.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Cork stabbing map Nov 17 2025\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/OSA6BDJXPRHL7CDEZSMGKSCWYU.png\"   width=\"800\" height=\"489\"\/>Map: Glen Murphy <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Paramedics arrived soon afterwards and the couple were rushed by ambulance to Cork University Hospital where it is understood they were in a critical condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Meanwhile, garda\u00ed arrested the suspect and conveyed him to the Bridewell Garda station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The man is being held under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act which allows garda\u00ed detain suspects before they must be charged or released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It is understood he was due to be examined last night by a doctor to assess whether he was fit to be interviewed about the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The couple are well known business people on Leeside where they have a business in the Oliver Plunkett St area of the city. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed have begun door-to-door inquiries and harvesting CCTV footage from houses in the quiet estate in a bid to try to establish the sequence of events leading to the assault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed in Cork are investigating a stabbing incident which left a couple believed to be in their 70s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,46,27121,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-145401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-cork","tag-cork-university-hospital","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}