Dublin riots – latest: Stabbing suspect ‘may have suffered permanent brain injuries’
Some 500 people took part in riots on Thursday night following knife attack that left several injured
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Your support makes all the difference.The suspect in the Dublin nursery stabbing which sparked violent riots in Ireland’s capital has suffered “extensive” brain injuries which “may be permanent”, it has been claimed.
An Garda Siochana did not comment on claims by a source who told the Irish Mirror that the suspect “is in a bad way”, adding: “His head injuries are extensive and may be permanent.”
It comes as the five-year-old girl who was stabbed remains in critical condition at CHI Temple Street, while the children’s care assistant, a woman aged in her 30s, is in a serious but stable condition in The Mater Hospital.
Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald insisted on Monday that justice minister Helen McEntee and Garda Commissioner Drew Harris’s positions were “untenable”, warning that “we now have a scenario where people do not feel safe in parts of Dublin's inner city”.
Ireland’s further education minister Simon Harris pledged that there would be a “full review” of the policing of the riots which engulfed parts of central Dublin on Thursday, which he condemned as “absolute opportunistic criminality and thuggery”.
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The narrative of extremism must be challenged from wherever it emerges, Humza Yousaf has said.
The Scottish First Minister was speaking after rioting in Dublin, where he praised Irish police for “running towards danger”.
Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris said the scenes showed that elected politicians needed to be able to articulate the concerns of their electorate.
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Conor McGregor has said he ‘does not condone’ the riots in Dublin but insisted that a ‘change’ must occur, after a knife attack left five people injured – including three children.
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I’ve been following the news earlier in the day. I’ve read about the horrific stabbing of kids and caretakers. As a mother of a six-year-old boy, I think of the mothers receiving the news of their worst nightmare. Why in the world would anyone commit such a terrible crime?
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Garda police make a number of arrests on Friday evening
Gardai made a number of arrests on O’Connell Street in Dublin city centre on Friday night.
Police are mounting a significant security operation in the area following violence which flared in the aftermath of a stabbing attack on Thursday.
A number of people were taken away in police vans following sporadic altercations.
Fundraiser for hero driver raises twice as much as collection for children and carer
A fundraising effort for the motorbike food delivery driver who hit the knife attacker with his helmet has raised more than £210,000 so far.
The GoFundMe page was set up to “buy Caio Benicio a pint”.
As of 8.30pm on Friday it had raised €246,051, from more than 23,000 donations.
But a page to raise funds for the children and their care assistant attacked had raised only just over half that amount – €129,951 (£112,000) from just over 7,000 donations.
New arrests made in city centre
Gardai made a number of arrests in O’Connell Street in Dublin city centre on Friday night.
Police are mounting a significant security operation in the area following violence which flared in the aftermath of a stabbing attack on Thursday.
A number of people were taken away in police vans following sporadic altercations.
Body cameras for police to be fast-tracked, minister says
Legislation allowing Garda officers to use body-worn cameras is to be fast-tracked, Irish ministers have been told.
As ministers met to discuss the response to the violence, Justice Minister Helen McEntee told the meeting that gardai were trawling 6,000 hours of CCTV footage and further arrests were certain.
She also said the Recordings Devices Bill will be fast-tracked and enacted in the near future, allowing body-worn cameras to come into use for gardai.
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar told ministers he had spoken with the principal of the Gaelscoil Cholaiste Mhuire school, outside which three children and a woman were stabbed on Thursday, as well the manager of the Children’s Place Nursery and Montessori and representatives of the Dublin business community.