STABBING: Gardai appeal for information

GARDAÍ investigating an incident on Main Street, Ballymahon, Longford, yesterday morning are appealing for witnesses to contact them. 

A in his 40s received what appears to be stab wounds during the course of an incident involving a large number of men, at around 7am.

The man was taken to the Mildland Regional Hospital Mullingar and has since been transferred to St James' Hospital in Dublin, where his condition is described as serious.

 Gardaí are asking anyone with information or anyone who travelled through Ballymahon yesterday morning between 6.30am and 8am to contact them at Longford Garda Station on (043) 3350570, where an incident room has been set up.