21/03/2019

Elderly Man Seriously Injured After Assault In Cork

An elderly man has been taken to hospital after suffering serious injuries in an overnight attack in county Cork.

The pensioner, a man in his 70s, received a punctured lung and other injuries when he was set upon in a car park in Sleaveen East in Macroom.

A man in his 30s was arrested at the scene and taken to Bandon Garda Station.



(JG/CM)


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