Gardaí are waiting to question a man following the fatal stabbing of woman at hotel on the campus of the Irish Management Institute (IMI) in Dublin yesterday.
The woman was found dead after another resident and a security guard at the Irish Management Institute (IMI) residential campus on Sandyford Road, Sandyford, south Dublin, raised the alarm shortly after 7am yesterday.
When gardaí arrived at the scene, they discovered the victim’s body under bedclothes in a rented apartment. They also found a man at the apartment who had suffered a number of stab wounds to the neck.
He was taken by ambulance to St Vincent’s hospital, Dublin. The injured man, a Romanian national in his 40s, underwent surgery yesterday.
His condition is not considered to be life-threatening.
Gardaí believe the man and the dead woman, a Romanian nurse in her 30s, were the only two people in the apartment when the stabbing occurred.
Gardaí will question the injured man when he is well enough. The investigating team is not looking for anybody else in relation to the murder, which is being treated as a domestic incident.
The man’s injuries are believed to have been self-inflicted.
Garda sources said the woman had come to live in Dublin a number of years ago and had been working in a south Dublin nursing home for some time.
She was due in work yesterday morning, and her employers were trying to contact her at the time of her murder.
She is believed to have been in a relationship with the man who was found injured at the apartment. He regularly travelled between Ireland and Romania.
He was renting the accommodation where the killing took place. Gardaí believe the woman was staying with him overnight.