The mother of the Laois man who was stabbed repeatedly in Kilkenny last Saturday says he was attacked in a row over €20.
Jamie Hennessy from Doonane, Crettyard, was critically injured in the incident in Castlecomer on Saturday and is now in the intensive care unit at the Mater Hospital.
The 22 year has undergone a number of surgeries and his condition is now inproved.
His mother Sandra spoke to the Irish Sun and said that those responsible were “scumbags” who “lured” her son to the stabbing.
She told the newspaper, “As far as I know it is over nothing more than €20. It is meant to be over that.
It’s over €20 or less to leave him in that condition?”
“They left him to die in his own pool of blood. That’s what they done to him.”
Sandra told the paper her son have to given 37 pints of blood in hospital.
“It breaks my heart looking at him lying there like this. I just want to change places with him if I could.”
Sadly this is not the only tradegy the Hennessy family have faced.
Jamie’s brother John and his first cousin Paul Hennessy, were only 18 and 16 when they were killed on the Portlaoise to Abbeyleix road in a car crash in September 1998.
Mrs Hennessy made a post on Facebook referencing the previous tradegy. She said, “Jamie has stopped at the crossroad he don’t know if he is turn back to us or going to his brother only way I can explain to you all so please pray that he turns back to us thank you all.”
The three men (two aged in their 30s and one 40s) arrested by Gardaí as part of the investigation were released without charge.
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