{"id":129034,"date":"2025-11-08T16:42:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T16:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/129034\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T16:42:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T16:42:12","slug":"girl-seriously-injured-in-2023-parnell-square-stabbing-making-great-progress-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/129034\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl seriously injured in 2023 Parnell Square stabbing \u2018making great progress\u2019 \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The mother of a seven-year-old girl who was seriously injured in a multiple stabbing incident on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\/\">Parnell Square<\/a> almost two years ago said her daughter is making \u201cgreat progress\u201d in her daily life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The stabbing occurred outside Col\u00e1iste Mhuire national school in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin-1\/\">Dublin 1<\/a> on November 23rd, 2023, in which several others were injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Aged five at the time of the attack, the girl was critically injured and spent the majority of last year in Temple Street Children\u2019s Hospital before being released from medical care for a year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The family has continued to share updates on a GoFundMe page that has raised almost \u20ac140,000. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The child recently celebrated her seventh birthday, and her mother explained that \u201ca lot has happened\u201d over the past several months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThis birthday was special because we got to spend it at home with family and friends, no personal protection equipment in sight, and lots of cake tasting,\u201d she revealed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cShe has gotten much better at swallowing, and she has since been able to eat a few spoons of her dad\u2019s mash potato, some mash bananas, strawberries and scrambled eggs. It doesn\u2019t make a meal, but the hope is to get there in the next few months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Her mother added her daughter has also become much better at focusing her attention when directed \u2013 which means, \u201cif we ask her to look somewhere, she does it almost immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The girl has also been making \u201dlots of new sounds, and it is much clearer to see when she mouths words and phrases like: \u2018I want\u2019, \u2018I don\u2019t know\u2019, \u2018yes, yeah, no\u2019\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The seven-year-old has taken a break from assisted walking to strengthen her hips through squats and standing for longer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cIt all sounds slow, but it is great progress. We are coming to the two-year anniversary of the attack, and we are more hopeful, for sure. She is a trooper and has a strong mind,\u201d her mother continued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Riad Bouchaker (50) is before the courts charged with three counts of attempted murder, one of producing and possessing a kitchen knife, three counts of assault causing harm and one of assault causing serious harm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The mother of a seven-year-old girl who was seriously injured in a multiple stabbing incident on Parnell Square&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[615,37837,61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-129034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-dublin","9":"tag-dublin-1","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129034","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=129034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}