A man has been charged in relation to a stabbing incident at a church in Waterford.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday morning, a woman was stabbed at Holy Cross Church in Tramore during a Mass service.<\/p>\n
The woman, aged in her 50s, was taken to University Hospital Waterford (UHW) with serious injuries.<\/p>\n
This morning, Niall Cummins was charged with assault contrary to Section 3 of the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act.<\/p>\n
The 36-year-old, with an address of The Willows, Clarinwood, Tramore, Co Waterford, appeared before Judge Kevin Staunton at Waterford District Court.<\/p>\n
He appeared with no legal representation.<\/p>\n
Garda Sgt Rob Flynn informed Judge Staunton that he arrested Cummins at 10am on Tuesday, July 21st at his address in Tramore. The accused made no reply after being cautioned.<\/p>\n
Mr Cummins appeared in court wearing a brown zip-up hoodie and black cargo trousers.<\/p>\n
When asked by Judge Staunton if he intended to apply for bail, he replied: \u201cNo, not really, I don\u2019t think so.\u201d<\/p>\n
Garda Inspector Niall Daly requested that a psychiatric evaluation be carried out on the accused.<\/p>\n
Cummins will reappear via video link at Waterford District Court on Tuesday, July 28th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been charged in relation to a stabbing incident at a church in Waterford. On Tuesday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-562539","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\/562539","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=562539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}