A week after she was rammed off the road, taken from a vehicle and beaten unconscious in Co Tipperary, Scarlett Faulkner remains critically ill at Cork University Hospital.
The mother of two had sustained head injuries that were so serious she was airlifted from the scene in Birdhill.
Gardaí are investigating a motive for the attack on the 27-year-old from Limerick.
The attackers – some armed with weapons, with an axe produced at the scene – are members of the Traveller community, as is the victim Faulkner.
Video footage of the incident has been shared online and in one post on X, formerly Twitter, the footage has been viewed more than 1.5 million times.
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