A 21-year-old man is to be charged tomorrow over the knife attack on a Dublin journalilst last weekend.
Máiréad O'Dwyer (27), who works as a researcher for Newstalk 106radio station, was returning home in the early hours after a night out with colleagues when she was set upon in the Lourdes Road-Ave Marie Road area of Rialto in south Dublin.
The Clonmel, Co Tipperary native underwent almost eight hours of emergency surgery and remains in hospital.
Gardai said today they arrested a the 21-year-old Polish national on Friday afternoon and questioned him in Kevin Street Garda Station, where he remains in custody. He will appear in Kilmainham District Court tomorrow morning.