Nearly €23,000 raised for man who came to aid of knife attack victim
Sean Ryan
Nearly €23,000 (£20,000 has been raised for a man who came to the aid of a north Belfast man who was attacked in a knife attack on Monday night.
The Gofundme fundraiser has been launched to buy a pint for Maitiu Mág Tighearnán, who has been named as the man who came to the rescue during the barbaric knife attack - by hitting the suspect with a hurl a number of times.
The fundraiser, which has been launched by Belfast man Niall Donnan, has already reached nearly £20,000 and says: "Maitie Mag Toghearnan has revealed himself as the man who confronted the attacker in Belfast last night.
"Faced with unimaginable violence, he chose courage over fear and grabbed a hurley stick to defend his fellow Irish man.
"I have set up this GoFundMe so the people of our land can show our support to Matt for his incredible bravery and courage. "100% of donations will be sent to Matt directly. Let’s buy him a pint!"
A man was left in a serious condition following a stabbing incident on Kinnaird Avenue on Monday, June 9th, and a Sudanese man in his 30s was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.
The victim of the attack has since been named as Stephen Ogilvie who remains critically ill in hospital. The attack has led to a night of rioting in both north and east Belfast.
Commenting on the attack North Belfast MP John Finucane said he believed they may have saved the life of the victim, a man aged in his 40s, during the incident in the Kinnaird Avenue area.
Finucane said he wanted to thank those people who intervened.“They showed extraordinary courage and bravery to step in, to put themselves in danger to save, I think possibly, a man’s life because of their selfless acts, and I want, on behalf of everybody I’m sure, to thank them for that."
