A man has died in hospital following a stabbing in Waterford City.
The 28-year-old victim was attacked in the Ballybeg Drive area of the city at around 3.00 a.m.
The single father-of-one was walking with his partner and a group of others near his family home at Priory Lawn, Ballybeg when he got involved in an altercation shortly before 3.00 a.m.
He was rushed to Waterford Regional Hospital with a stab wound to the neck but died shortly afterwards.
The scene has been preserved for technical examination.
