A teenager was arrested today after a man was stabbed a number of times in a street attack.

A man in his 20s suffered a number of knife wounds in the incident on Steam Boat Quay in Limerick city at around 2am.

The injured man was said to be in a stable condition in the Mid-Western Regional Hospital.

Gardaí said a man in his late teens was detained and being questioned at Henry Street garda station.