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Terrorist motivation being investigated in Waterford chaplain stabbing

An Garda Síochána continue to investigate all the circumstances into the stabbing of well-known Waterford army chaplain, Fr Paul Murphy at Renmore Army Barracks, Galway last evening.

The Special Detective Unit of An Garda Síochána are heading the investigation with one line of enquiry to establish if this attack had a terrorism motivation.

The suspect, believed to be in his late teens/early twenties, remains in detention and is being questioned in a Garda station in the North Western region. Their period of detection has recently been extended.

No Perp description yet, nothing learned from Southport it appears.

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