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Woman to appear in court over Drumcondra stabbing incident

Woman (33) has been charged after 36-year-old was stabbed and mugged

Gardaí at the scene in Drumcondra where a 36-year-old woman was stabbed as she walked home from work by another woman who demanded her handbag. Photograph: Gareth Chaney Collins
Gardaí at the scene in Drumcondra where a 36-year-old woman was stabbed as she walked home from work by another woman who demanded her handbag. Photograph: Gareth Chaney Collins
Nora-Ide McAuliffe
Fri Jan 06 2017 - 07:59

A 33-year-old woman has been charged in connection with a mugging on Tuesday in which a woman was stabbed in the neck.

The woman is due to appear before Dublin District Court on Friday morning.

The 36-year-old victim, who suffered non-life-threatening injuries, had her handbag stolen in the attack and was found on the footpath on the Lower Drumcondra Road on Tuesday evening by a passing garda. The garda provided assistance and called an ambulance which brought the injured party to the Mater hospital.

Gardaí at the scene of a stabbing the Drumcondra Road Lower between Clonliffe Road and the Archbishop’s House, Dublin. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins
Gardaí at the scene of a stabbing the Drumcondra Road Lower between Clonliffe Road and the Archbishop’s House, Dublin. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins

The attack is understood to have happened on the stretch between Clonliffe Road and Richmond Road at about 5pm.

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The 33-year-old woman was arrested on Wednesday night shortly before 10pm and was detained at Mountjoy Garda Station under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1984.

Nora-Ide McAuliffe

Nora-Ide McAuliffe

Nora-Ide McAuliffe is an Audience Editor with The Irish Times