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Army chaplain injured in stabbing outside Irish barracks

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The victim thanked the public for their prayers in a post on Facebook today.

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The attack happened when the priest was approached by a youth armed with a knife. (AFP pic)

GALWAY:
A teenager stabbed an Irish army chaplain outside an army barracks in Galway, west of Dublin, before being restrained by soldiers, police said today.

“A man in his 50s received a number of stab wounds during the incident,” which happened late yesterday, said a police statement.

He was taken to a hospital in Galway “for treatment of injuries that are serious but not life-threatening”, it added.

A male youth, an Irish national in his teens, was restrained by members of the defence forces and arrested at the scene outside Renmore Barracks, and is being held in custody, said police.

The victim, Paul Murphy, thanked the public for their prayers in a post on Facebook today, adding that he was awaiting surgery.

The attack happened when the priest was approached by the youth armed with a knife, according to the Irish Times newspaper.

Murphy ran through the barracks gate but was pursued by his attacker, said the paper.

According to an army statement, sentries at the barracks fired five warning shots “in strict accordance with force protection protocols after a defence forces member was assaulted by a male civilian”, and used a baton to subdue the attacker.

Ireland’s deputy prime minister and defence minister Micheal Martin condemned the attack.

“I commend the members of the defence forces on duty at the time, whose intervention was critical,” said Martin.

“Our thoughts are with the defence forces member injured in the attack,” he said.

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