Irish police investigate whether stabbing of army chaplain terror-related

Irish police suspect a possible terror motive in a stabbing attack outside an army barracks in Galway that inflicted serious injuries on a military chaplain.

Police have detained a 16-year-old boy who was reportedly radicalised online and had a grievance about Irish peacekeepers in the Middle East.

The attack happened at approximately 10.45pm on Thursday when an assailant with a knife approached Father Paul Murphy as he sat in a car outside Renmore barracks on the outskirts of Galway city in the west of Ireland.

Murphy, who is in his 50s, ran through the gate and was pursued and stabbed several times. Sentries fired warning shots and used a baton to subdue the assailant until police arrived and took him into custody.

Read more: The Guardian