{"id":103671,"date":"2025-10-25T16:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T16:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/103671\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T16:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T16:34:09","slug":"man-arrested-over-alleged-assault-on-catherine-connolly-canvassers-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/103671\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested over alleged assault on Catherine Connolly canvassers \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">A man has been arrested by garda\u00ed investigating an alleged assault on two women during canvassing for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/catherine-connolly\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/catherine-connolly\/\">Catherine Connolly<\/a> in north Dublin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">The alleged assault occurred in North Strand Road as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/sinn-fein\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/sinn-fein\/\">Sinn F\u00e9in<\/a> leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/mary-lou-mcdonald\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/mary-lou-mcdonald\/\">Mary Lou McDonald<\/a> joined the canvass.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A video posted online appears to show a man approaching a canvass team for Ms Connolly and shouting threats to \u201cdeck\u201d and \u201cslap\u201d some of them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">It was reported to garda\u00ed that two  women had been assaulted in North Strand Road shortly before 4pm on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">They did not require medical treatment at the scene but garda\u00ed said they understand one of the females has since attended the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital for further assessment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">On Saturday, garda\u00ed said they had arrested a man in his 30s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He is being detained under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984 at a Garda station in the Dublin Metropolitan Region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He can be questioned for up to 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A Garda spokesperson said: \u201cInvestigations are ongoing.\u201d &#8211; PA <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested by garda\u00ed investigating an alleged assault on two women during canvassing for Catherine&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3656,61,60,3658,43,978,3415],"class_list":["post-103671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-catherine-connolly","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mary-lou-mcdonald","tag-news","tag-presidential-election","tag-sinn-fein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}