Tributes were paid this morning to a young Irishman who died in hospital in Australia following a stabbing incident while walking home with his wife just before Christmas. Father-of-two Charlie McCarthy was waiting for a taxi with his wife in Perth in Western Australia when a row broke out involving two fishermen working nearby. It’s understood that Mr McCarthy, who worked for a cable-laying company in Perth, received a stab wound to the head and was rushed to hospital in Perth, where he was put on life-support. Father-of-two Charlie McCarthy, from Aghada (marked above) in East Cork, was waiting for a taxi with his wife in Perth in Western Australia when he received a stab wound to the head. Map: Google Street ViewOne local described the late Mr McCarthy – who emigrated to Australia in the 2000s but then returned to Aghada with his Australian wife, only to return to Perth – as “quiet but very popular”.

Source: The Irish Times December 26, 2017 13:18 UTC