Elderly Woman Recovering After City Centre Mugging

Anglesea Street Gardai are investigating the incident on Parnell Place on Sunday night


An elderly woman is recovering after she sustained facial injuries in a mugging in Cork city yesterday evening 

The 70- year old woman was in the city doing some Christmas shopping and was attacked on Parnell Place at the junction of Oliver Plunkett Street and Maylor Street 

A man knocked the woman to the ground and stole her handbag however a number of other shoppers intervened and chased the culprit who dropped the bag and ran off 

Anglesea Street Gardai are investigating the incident 

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