SERIOUS ASSAULT ON MAN IN SALTHILL BY MASKED ATTACKERS

Date Published: 24-Aug-2009

A young man has been seriously assaulted in SalthillThe attack took place as the man was walking home along Maunsell's Road around 3.30am yesterday It's understood two men wearing balaclavas jumped out from behind bushes and attacked him with iron bars. The man, who's in his mid-twenties, managed to escape and alerted Gardai around 4am who took him to hospital for treatment. His injuries were not serious but he's believed to be traumatised after the assault.