A 36-year-old man has been charged in connection with a suspected stabbing on a woman while she prayed in a church in Waterford on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n
Niall Cummins was charged with possession of a knife and with assault causing harm to a woman in her 50s at Holy Cross Church, Summerhill, Tramore, Co Waterford.<\/p>\n
Mr Cummins, of 34 The Willows, Clarinwood, Tramore, Co. Waterford, appeared before Judge John Cheatle at Waterford District Court on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n
Sergeant Robert Flynn gave evidence of arrest, charge, and caution.<\/p>\n
Mr Cummins replied “no comment” when he was charged under caution with both possession of a knife and with assault causing harm, the court heard.<\/p>\n
Mr Cummins was not represented in court due to the ongoing solicitor strike over changes to legal aid payments.<\/p>\n
When asked if he wished to apply for bail, Mr Cummins said “no, not really”.<\/p>\n
He was charged with assault causing harm at Holy Cross Church, Tramore, on July 21, contrary to Section 3 of the Non-Fatal Offences against the Person Act 1997.<\/p>\n
He was also charged with possession of a sharply bladed knife at Holy Cross Church, Tramore, contrary to Section 9 of the Firearms and Offensive Weapons Act 2009.<\/p>\n
Judge Cheatle remanded Mr Cummins in custody. He is due to appear via videolink in Waterford District Court next Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Judge Cheatle ordered a psychological evaluation and report for the defendant.<\/p>\n
The alleged attack took place as the woman was saying the rosary just before the 10am Mass yesterday.<\/p>\n
Emergency services were called to the scene at 9.45am.<\/p>\n
The woman was being treated in hospital for her injuries which required emergency surgery but are not believed to be life-threatening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 36-year-old man has been charged in connection with a suspected stabbing on a woman while she prayed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[191786,54,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-562820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-waterford-news","tag-courts","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562820","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=562820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}