{"id":562541,"date":"2026-07-22T12:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T12:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/562541\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T12:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T12:58:08","slug":"man-remanded-in-custody-over-knife-attack-on-woman-in-co-waterford-church-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/562541\/","title":{"rendered":"Man remanded in custody over knife attack on woman in Co Waterford church \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A  man (36) has been remanded in custody after he was charged with stabbing a woman in a church in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/waterford\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/waterford\/\">Co Waterford<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Niall Cummins, of the Willows, Clarinwood, Tramore, was brought before Waterford District Court on Wednesday morning in relation to the knife attack on Mary McNamara.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He was charged with assault causing harm at Holy Cross Church, Tramore, on July 21st, contrary to section three of the Non-Fatal Offences against the Person Act 1997.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He was also charged with possession of a sharply bladed knife at Holy Cross Church, Tramore, contrary to section nine of the Firearms and Offensive Weapons Act 2009.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sgt Rob O\u2019Flynn of Tramore Garda station gave evidence of arresting Cummins at 10am on July 21st. He told the court the accused made no reply when he was arrested.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Insp Niall Daly said Cummins had no legal representation but that he understood he was not making an application for bail at this stage. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Judge John Cheatle asked Cummins if it was correct that he was not applying for bail at this point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Cummins replied: \u201cNo, not really I don\u2019t think so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Daly applied for a remand in custody. He said the State was also seeking a psychiatric evaluation of the accused. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Cheatle directed that a psychiatric assessment be carried out and remanded Cummins in custody to appear again at Waterford District Court by video-link next Monday, July 28th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Mary McNamara remains in University Hospital Waterford where she underwent emergency surgery for a stab wound to the chest. Her injuries are not understood to be life-threatening. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man (36) has been remanded in custody after he was charged with stabbing a woman in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39,6513],"class_list":["post-562541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-waterford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562541","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=562541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}