A man in his 30s was arrested this morning in connection with a serious assault on a woman at an apartment in Finglas in Dublin last week.
The man was detained in Finglas and is being held at Finglas Garda station under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act.
The assault took place at an apartment in Prospect Hill in the north Dublin suburb on September 2nd.
The victim, a woman in her 30s from Eastern Europe, was alone in her apartment at at 2.30pm when she went to answer a call at her door. When she answered, a masked man armed with a knife pushed his way into the apartment.
The woman struggled with the man and suffered slashes across her hand which severed two of her fingers. She was also slashed in the upper body.
The intruder took a bank card owned by the woman and a number of other belongings. Gardaí believe a small quantity of cash was taken and the attack was most likely an opportunistic robbery.
The woman was unable to alert any residents because all the other apartments were empty. However, she managed to make her way outside to a nearby hotel, where staff called an ambulance.
She was taken to the Mater hospital where she underwent surgery to have her fingers reattached. She remains in the hospital in a stable condition.