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Stabbing
Off-duty Garda stabbed in Tallaght burglary
The off-duty garda was attacked during an aggravated burglary yesterday morning.
AN OFF-DUTY garda is in hospital after he was stabbed a number of times during an aggravated burglary on a house in Tallaght yesterday.
Two men entered the house in the south Dublin suburb in the early hours of yesterday morning and demanded money from the off-duty garda.
During the course of the incident the man, who is under 30, was stabbed a number of times.
He was rushed to Tallaght Hospital with serious injuries.
The burglars also took a car but it was located a short distance away later in the morning.
Gardaí say that an investigation is ongoing and there have been no arrests at this stage.
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