Man stabbed with pitchfork in sickening broad daylight attack in Offaly housing estate

He runs across the road in the other direction but is soon caught by three men all carrying baseball bats.

• 06:00, 9 JUL 2022

A man walking on his own in broad daylight has been attacked by a pitchfork-wielding mob.

The terrifying incident happened in the Arden View area in Tullamore in Co Offaly on Wednesday.

The frightening images taken on what appears to be a mobile phone while someone was in a moving car, have now gone viral.

The footage shows a man in a grey T-shirt walking along a footpath carrying a stick with others running slowly behind him.

A number of men jump out from a moving silver car carrying weapons and run after the man.

He runs across the road in the other direction but is soon caught by three men all carrying baseball bats.

They beat the man to the ground and continue to hit him, before they are joined by a fourth man and two women.

The man in the grey T-shirt repeatedly stamps on the victim who is now lying on the ground and not fighting back.

A male voice said: “They have him boys, they’re going to kill him.”

Gardai said: “A male, 40, was injured in the incident and brought to the Midlands Regional Hospital Tullamore for treatment of his injuries.