Emergency services at scene of ‘stabbing near school’ in Dublin city centre
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People in Dublin have been urged to work from home today after violent riots broke out across Ireland’s capital over a knife attack that left at least five people injured.
Police said “significant levels” of public disorder and criminal damage were carried out with trams, buses, cars and other public properties set on fire during the clashes.
Labelling them “disgraceful scenes”, Garda Commissioner Drew Harris said a “complete lunatic faction driven by far-right ideology” is behind disorder in the capital.
This comes after an attack unfolded shortly after 1.30pm in Parnell Square East, near the Irish-medium primary school Gaelscoil Cholaiste Mhuire, which left five people injured.
The casualties include three young children, an adult female and an adult male. Two girls are receiving treatment for serious injuries, while a five-year-old boy has been discharged. Both adults remain in hospital after suffering serious wounds.
Police believe the attack was a “standalone” incident and is not terror-related. The scene remains cordoned off, while a man in his 50s has been arrested and named as a “person of interest” in the investigation.
Clean-up operation underway
The clean-up operation has begun in Dublin after a night of “huge destruction” carried out by what police have described as a “far-right riotous mob”.
Disorder broke out after a man stabbed multiple people outside a school in the city centre on Thursday afternoon.
This morning, workers were seen clearing up debris from broken windows of the Holiday Inn Express on Cathal Brugha Street.
Staff in high-vis vests were also pictured cleaning up at the site of a burnt out tram after the rioters attacked public transport.
Police are following a ‘definite line of inquiry’ - justice minister
Irish police are following a “definite line of inquiry” and have arrested a person of interest, the country’s justice minister has said.
Helen McEntee also thanked emergency services for their quick response, saying the attack happened in a matter of “seconds”.
She also paid tribute to members of the public who intervened to apprehend the knifeman.
"The response was very quick as well as the emergency services," Ms McEntee said.
"As you can imagine, this was a situation that unfolded in a matter of seconds and I cannot commend highly enough the members of public.
“ I know there was a person injured who stepped in and to try and help the carer or the teacher and the small children.”
Justice minister Helen McEntee (PA).
Staff and pupils offered psychological help after knife rampage
Staff and pupils at the school near where yesterday’s stabbing spree took place are being offered psychological help, Ireland’s education minister has said.
The knife attack happened outside the Gaelscoil Choláiste Mhuire children’s school in the city centre.
“We are shocked beyond measure, that such an incident could unfold in Parnell Square and our NEPS teams, the National Education and Psychological Service teams, are on the ground in the school,” Norma Foley said.
"They were there throughout yesterday. They will be available to the school again today and they will consistently work with the school staff to support the school community.
"Every school has a critical incident plan. We would hope that they never have to invoke it, but it was invoked yesterday and the NEPS team go in to support the team within the school to support each other and to support the children.
"I think best practice tells us that at a time like this, children need to be with people that they know best and that are calm a secure environment is provided to the children and that’s exactly what will be happening in the school."
Education minister Norma Foley (Brian Lawless/PA)
34 arrested, 1 officer seriously injured - police
Ireland’s police chief said 34 people had been arrested over rioting in Dublin on Thursday night.
"Overall we have 34 arrests, 32 of which will be appearing before the courts this morning," Police Commissioner Drew Harris told a press conference.
He also confirmed that one officer had been seriously injured during the violence.
Garda Commissioner Drew Harris
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A Deliveroo driver claims he intervened to stop a man accused of stabbing multiple people in Dublin.
A five-year-old girl was in emergency care following the knife attack on Parnell Square at around 1.30pm on Thursday.
A woman in her 30s and two other children aged five and six were also injured in an attack that has sparked riots in the Irish capital.
Caio Benicio says he took off his helmet and used it to attack the assailant.
“I didn’t even make a decision, it was pure instinct, and it was all over in seconds,” he told The Journal.
“ He fell to the ground, I didn’t see where knife went, and other people stepped in,” he told The Journal tonight.
“I have two kids myself, so I had to do something. I did what anyone would do. People were there but they couldn’t step in because he was armed, but I knew I could use my helmet as a weapon.”
Tara Cobham reports:
Caio Benicio
Video report: Looted shops, blockaded roads and burning cars in night of violence
Ireland’s police chief has defended his force as saying that “nobody could have anticipated” the riots sparked by Thursday’s fatal stabbings.
Asked at a press conference this morning whether police failed the people of Ireland while rioters caused havoc in Dublin, Garda Commissioner Drew Harris told reporters: “An Garda Síochána responded to this in an extraordinary fashion.
“Members from across the country responded, returned to duty. Public order units from all over Ireland responded here to Dublin. More and more resources were arriving throughout the evening.
“But we could not have anticipated that in response to a terrible crime – the stabbing of schoolchildren and their teacher – that this would be the response.
“In effect, those filled with hate, and hate directed to members of An Garda Síochána, that they would attempt to storm through our cordon and disrupt the crime scene, and then engage in violence, looting and disorder, including some very significant criminal damage – nobody could have anticipated that when these events started at 1:30pm, these awful events.”
Police have not ruled out terror as motive for stabbings, Garda chief says
Initially, police said they were “satisfied there is no terrorist link” to the stabbings but at an evening press conference, Garda Commissioner Drew Harris stopped short of definitively ruling out a terrorist motive.
“I have never ruled out any possible motive for this attack ... all lines of inquiry are open to determine the motive for this attack,” he said.
‘Manipulative thugs’ must not be allowed to use tragedy to wreak havoc, says minister
Police and politicians have called for calm in Dublin and warned against misinformation over the attack earlier on Thursday.
“The scenes we are witnessing this evening in our city center cannot and will not be tolerated,” said Ireland’s justice minister Helen McEntee.
“A thuggish and manipulative element must not be allowed to use an appalling tragedy to wreak havoc.”
Witness recounts knife attack on children and two adults
Siobhan Kearney said she witnessed what she believes was a man attacking children during an incident in Dublin.
She described what she saw as “absolutely bedlam”.
Ms Kearney told RTE she watched people disarm a man who she said had a knife.
“I looked across the road and I see the man and the stabbing motion with a load of children so I flew across the road.
The man was after stabbing two children as far as I could make out, and we got the children up to the left with the women that were there, and the teachers I presume,” she told the broadcaster.
“People were trying to attack the man so me and an American lady, we formed a ring around the man, and then about three minutes later the ambulance came for the children and then another ambulance and fire officers came for the man on the ground.”
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