*Photograph: John Mangan
TWO FEMALES remain hospitalised following a stabbing in Clareabbey last week.
A spokesperson for An Garda Síochána told The Clare Echo there has been “no update” with their investigation after an eight year old girl was discovered with over 40 stab wounds in Clareabbey last Tuesday morning.
Both she and a female adult were moved to University Hospital Limerick (UHL) for treatment with the young girl later transferred to Crumlin Children’s Hospital.
The mother and daughter are from Ukraine and were among a group of eight persons that moved into new accommodation by Clareabbey in the past three weeks. The property which had only been refurbished having been left idle for some time has been converted into four apartments.
Speaking in Ennis, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Simon Coveney (FG) described Co Clare as “the best example in the country of accommodating Ukrainians”. He said, “they are traumatised by the loss of family members, we have seen the tragic consequences of some of that trauma and stress in recent days”.
