02/04/2009

Three In Court Following Tipperary Attack

Three of the five men arrested in relation to the shooting and stabbing of two men in Tipperary yesterday are appearing in Roscrea District Court this Thursday morning.

The other two men were released without charge and a file will be prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions regarding their detentions.

A total of five men were arrested following the attack during which one-man received stab wounds to his back and a second man received a gun shot wound to his leg.

One of the men was taken to the Regional Hospital Limerick and the second man to South Tipperary Hospital.

Both sustained injuries not believed to be life threatening.

Officers from Tipperary Town and Gardaí from Limerick as part of their investigation stopped a car on Tipperary Road, Ballysimon, Limerick City. The men in the car, all in their 20s, were arrested.

They were being detained in Tipperary Town, Cahir, Henry Street and Roxboro Road Garda stations.

(DW

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