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 Gardai have arrested a man in his 30’s, following a stabbing incident here in Thurles in the early hours of this morning.
The victim, who is believed to be a 22 year-old male, was removed by ambulance to Clonmel Hospital in South Tipperary following this altercation and is now understood to be in a stable condition.
The incident occurred in the early hours of this morning at the entrance to Monakeeba, College Green, Beechwood Grove & Beechwood Lawns housing estates, here in Thurles.
In a follow up operation Gardaí have arrested a male aged in his 30’s and the suspected assailant has been taken to Thurles Garda Station, where he is currently being held under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984.
It is understood that Gardaí during a follow-up search also discovered a knife in the vicinity of the crime scene.
The area remained sealed off between the hours of 4:00am and 10:00am this morning, for a technical and forensic examination.
Thurles Gardaí are now appealing for witnesses with any information regarding this incident to contact Thurles Garda Station Tel: 0504-25100 or the Garda Confidential Line Tel: 1800 66 111.
 New Gardaí are to be now recruited again, on a rolling basis, to assist in maintaining the existing force’s overall strength at 13,000.
Approximately one hundred new recruits are expected to be admitted to the Garda training college in Templemore, Co Tipperary, at intervals of three to four months with the first batch of one hundred to arrive in Templemore next summer, graduating as fully fledged members of the force two years later.
Details of this new recruitment to the Gardaí, which has been dormant since 2009 because of a moratorium on public service numbers, is understood to be officially announced today.
It is understood that more than 32,000 applicants have already expressed an interest in joining the Garda force and same will form the bulk of those competing for the initial one hundred places.
These applications are currently being examined and the Public Appointments Commission will set an initial online test for interested parties in early January 2014. Further assessments will then be carried out and the numbers whittled down before a group is chosen for a full interviewing process.
 Gardaí from the Templemore area have successfully recovered machinery worth thousands of euro, recently stolen approximately three miles from Templetouhy, here in North Tipperary.
Gardaí had been appealing to motorists to keep their eyes peeled for a stolen yellow coloured JCB Fast-Track, latter registration number 04-C-1641, together with a three thousand gallon capacity red ‘Abbey’ tanker, which had a compressor attached and both of which had been removed from an area on the Johnstown road outside of Templetouhy village.
Gardaí now confirm that this machinery has been located, found abandoned some distance from where it was stolen.
While Gardaí continue to investigate, they now believe that the robbery may have come about as a result of mischievous pranks, carried out by a number of youths, observed to have been in the area at the time.
 Seven men, charged last night with serious aggravated burglary at a home in Co Tipperary, committed this week, have appeared at a special sitting of Cashel District Court today.
The seven men, some of which were already on bail for other serious offences, including possession of a firearm and assaulting a Garda, have now been named as Patrick Joyce, aged 21, from Beaumont Hall, Beaumont Woods, Dublin 9; John Joyce, aged 19, from Lentisk Lawn, Donaghmede, Dublin; Michael McDonagh, aged 22, from Tara Lawns, Belcamp Lane, Coolock, Dublin 5; Thomas Flynn, aged19, Moatview Avenue, Coolock, Dublin 5; Donal O’Hara, aged 21, from Glin Park, Coolock, Dublin 5; Dean Byrne, aged 21, from Cabra Park, Dublin 7; and Patrick Gately, aged 26, from Primrose Grove, Darndale, Dublin.
Gardaí had yesterday applied to the District Court in Cashel for permission to detain the men for a third 24-hour period, allowing for their detention for the full 72 hours available to Gardaí under present legislation.
Following their arrest early on Thursday morning last, about €1,300 in cash, together with jewellery taken from the house and two shotguns had been found in their possession. Gardaí investigations now believe that this gang left their base in Coolock, north Dublin, driving a Saab and a V W Passat, around midnight on Wednesday last. The Saab vehicle appears to have broken down near Urlingford, on the Tipperary/Kilkenny border, forcing the gang members to cram into the Passat.
When they eventually reached the home of Mr Mark and Mrs Emma Corcoran, at Burnchurch, near Killenaule, they tried to break open the front door using crowbars. Failing in this attempt they then broke the front living room double glazed window and on entering, then threatened and assaulted the couple using shotguns before then tying them up, ransacking the house and stealing cash and the other property.
The gang were arrested within six hours of this attack and charged last night with aggravated burglary. They will now appear in court again on November 28th next, having been refused bail.
 Gardaí have successfully smashed a travelling gang they believe responsible for a spate of burglaries around the country, following a break-in at the home of Mark and Emma Corcoran, in Burnchurch, (off the Killenaule – Cashel road), Killenaule, near Thurles in Co Tipperary, around 3:00am this morning.
It is understood that up to seven men from the Coolock area of north Co Dublin, aged in their 20’s, are now being detained by Gardaí, following the incident and same have been transferred to stations in Tipperary, where they are being held under section 30 of the Offences against the State Act, which allows for their detention, without charge, for up to three days.
During the armed robbery, a businessman was assaulted resulting in a broken nose, having been struck by a shotgun butt, while his wife and their three children, all girls under the age of 8, were also in the house at the time. The parents were tied up during their horrific ordeal, as members of the gang robbed cash, jewellery and other property from their family home. The gang also stole the family’s Kia 4×4 vehicle and using another car, latter believed stolen earlier in Castlecomer, Co Kilkenny, then fled the scene.
Shortly afterwards Gardaí intercepted a Volkswagen Passat at about 4.30am near Naas and detained five men. The family’s 4X4 was later stopped with the aid of the Garda Air Support Unit latter brought in to keep track of the vehicle, together with the Armed Intervention Unit, resulting in the detention of the other two men near Bewley’s Hotel at Newlands Cross. Outbound and Inbound lanes at the busy Newlands Cross junction were closed for some time following the incident, with early morning motorists warned of severe delays. The area has since been cleared.
Cash and other stolen property together with two shotguns were recovered by Gardaí, as a result of searches of both vehicles.
This Dublin based outfit are one of a number of gangs identified and targeted under Operation Fiacla, which was set up some eighteen months ago by Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan; it’s target, to combat the wave of burglaries nationwide and is regarded by senior Garda officers today as significant in their fight against rural gangland crime.
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