Police sources and witnesses told The Post on Sunday that the bartender who was fatally stabbed in an Irish pub in Queens over the weekend was a “sweet innocent girl” from Ireland whose boyfriend attacked her.
According to police sources, Sarah McNally, 41, of Glendale, died on the floor of the Ceili House pub on Grand Avenue in Maspeth after receiving a stab wound to the neck around 6:30 p.m.
It’s unclear what prompted the killing.
According to accounts, McNally’s boyfriend, with whom she had been living for several months, barged into the bar, knifed her, and then attempted to leave the hole-in-the-wall tavern, whose Gaelic name means social gathering.
“She was just standing there talking,” remarked a female patron who observed the scene. “Her boyfriend walked in and stabbed her.” Then he attempted to stab himself. Horrible. “Just horrible!”
When police arrived, the suspect was holding a blade in each hand and bleeding from self-inflicted knife wounds, according to sources.
According to sources, officers urged him to drop the knives and then tased him with stun guns when he refused.
According to police, the unidentified stabber is in critical condition at NYC Health + Hospitals Elmhurst.
Charges against him are pending, according to sources.
According to authorities, the couple had no history of domestic violence, which could explain McNally’s terrible death.
Mike Lambe, a 62-year-old landlord who has lived about two blocks away from the bar for 20 years, told The Post on Sunday that McNally was a “sweet, innocent girl from Longford,” a county in the heart of the Emerald Isle.
He said she’d been working at the bar for less than a year.
“She was innocent!” he exclaimed.
The inhabitant stated that the street has various problems, including druggies and their sellers.
“It’s been getting worse and worse,” he told me.
