Four teenagers are due in court this morning in connection with two assaults on pensioners in Athlone.
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A taxi driver in his seventies was stabbed a number of times early on Tuesday after picking up two men on Church Street in the town.
Later that day, three youths armed with a firearm and an iron bar threatened and assaulted a shop keeper in his seventies on the Ballymahon Road.
The four youths – aged between 15 and 18 – are due before Mullingar District Court.
