30/07/2007

Man Seriously Injured In Meath Stabbing

A man, aged in his thirties, is in a serious condition in hospital after he was stabbed in County Meath last night.

Ambulance crews were alerted to the incident at around 10.30pm and when they got to the scene on Main Street in Duleek they found that the man had a knife embedded in his skull.

The man was then taken to the Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda and later transferred to Beaumont Hospital in Dublin where he is being operated on today.

A 17-year-old is being held at Drogheda Garda Station in relation to the attack.

(SB/SP)

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