Four teenagers aged between 15 and 18 are appearing in court in the morning, charged in connection with two incidents in Athlone on Tuesday.

A taxi driver in his seventies was stabbed a number of times in the early hours of Tuesday morning after picking up two males on Church Street in the town.

While on Tuesday evening, three youths armed with a firearm and an iron bar threatened and assaulted a shop keeper in his seventies at a business on the Ballymahon Road.

The four youths are due in Mullingar District Court tomorrow morning.