File on woman's stabbing death in Cork apartment prepared for DPP

A file is being prepared for the DPP after the fatal stabbing of a young woman in Cork early on Saturday

A file is being prepared for the DPP after the fatal stabbing of a young woman in Cork early on Saturday. The incident occurred at an apartment in Gerald Griffin Street in the Blackpool area of the city.

The dead woman has been named as Ms Catherine Hegarty (33). A man detained under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act has been released.

According to Garda sources, a domestic row broke out in the apartment, during which Ms Hegarty received a stab wound to the chest. A man then called to the Watercourse Road Garda station to say there had been a stabbing.

Gardai decided not to remove Ms Hegarty's body from the apartment pending the arrival of the State Pathologist, Dr John Harbison.

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The investigation being led by Supt P.J. Brennan of Mayfield Garda station is following the line that a murder was committed. Anyone with information is asked to come forward. It is understood gardai are not seeking anyone else in connection with the stabbing.

In a separate incident on Saturday, a man attempted to set his house alight at Castlepark in Ballincollig when gardai arrived to question him concerning an assault earlier on a garda.

It is believed the garda had tried to apprehend a man who streaked in the main street of Ballincollig, a satellite town of Cork.

Later in the evening gardai went to Castlepark to interview a man in connection with the incident but he barricaded himself into the house and set fire to curtains. Two units of Cork fire brigade were then called out.

As the gardai tried to persuade the man to come out of the house, up to 60 local youths assembled and a melee broke out. A garda was bitten on the hand and treated in hospital, as were four others. Some 25 extra gardai were called to the scene.