A 12-year-old girl who is in serious condition in hospital after an attempted break in at a house in Cork is 'doing well' after surgery.
“They're very hopeful that she'll make a full recovery,” Superintendent Gary McPolin, who is overseeing the investigation, said.
As the Irish Examiner reports, it is suspected that the child was injured as part of an ongoing feud between warring families in Cork and Limerick.
It is believed the girl was hit in the head by an object that was thrown through a window of the front door.
She was in her home with her young siblings and mother when armed masked men started attacking the house and broke the door down, injuring her in the process, it is understood.
The suspects then fled the scene in a black car towards Kilmallock, Co Limerick.
Gardaí in Cork are working with gardaí in Limerick on the investigation.
“This happened on a Monday night, it's unacceptable, inexcusable, and will not be tolerated, either by the local people or by the gardaí," Supt McPolin said.
“Their violent actions led to the serious injury of a child."
No arrests have been made yet, but gardaí are following a definite line of inquiry into the assault and a linked incident of criminal damage at the house on the New Line, just off main street in Charleville.
