A Catholic army chaplain has been stabbed in Ireland in an attack which may have had a terrorist motive.
Father Paul Murphy, who is in his early fifties, was stabbed multiple times on the night of August 15. The attack took place at Renmore barracks in Galway, the main city in the west of the country.
The army chaplain had been sitting in his car outside the barracks when approached by a 16-year-old boy with a knife.
As the attack commenced, soldiers at the barracks intervened – which reportedly included firing shots – and managed to apprehend the assailant.
