An Irishman in his 30s is in Garda custody following the alleged stabbing of a woman aged in her 50s during an incident while Mass was being celebrated in Tramore, Co Waterford.<\/p>\n
Emergency services are at the scene of the stabbing incident in the Holy Cross Church, Tramore, which occurred shortly after 10am.<\/p>\n
An Garda Siochana and the National Ambulance Service responded to a call before 10am this morning.<\/p>\n
The local woman is understood to have been stabbed on the altar of the church.<\/p>\n
She has been transferred to University Hospital Waterford (UHW) for treatment of her injuries.<\/p>\n
The injuries she sustained are not believed to be life-threatening.<\/p>\n
It is understood that the man walked into the church and accosted the woman and then stabbed her. It is unknown if the man is known to her.<\/p>\n
The man was arrested at the scene by garda\u00ed. It is understood the alleged incident may have been religious-based.<\/p>\n
Shocked parishioners immediately phoned emergency services while the incident was taking place.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed are appealing for anyone with any information to contact Tramore Garda Station on 051 391620.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Irishman in his 30s is in Garda custody following the alleged stabbing of a woman aged in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-560641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560641","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=560641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}