{"id":164485,"date":"2025-11-28T15:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T15:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/164485\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T15:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T15:51:08","slug":"woman-targeted-in-clondalkin-fire-attack-suffered-burns-to-most-of-her-body-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/164485\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman targeted in Clondalkin fire attack suffered burns to most of her body \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

A woman who was set on fire at her Dublin<\/a> home suffered severe burns to most of her body and remains in a critical condition.<\/p>\n

The 43-year-old was doused with a flammable liquid<\/a> and set alight after opening her front door in Oak Downs, Clondalkin<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Sources described her condition as extremely serious. <\/p>\n

She has been moved to a specialised burns unit in St James\u2019s Hospital where she is being kept in sterilised conditions.<\/p>\n

While her condition has stabilised somewhat, the main threat to the woman\u2019s life is infection taking hold in her extensive injuries. It is understood she suffered burns to around 60 per cent of her body, including extensive facial injuries.<\/p>\n

The woman\u2019s partner, a 49-year-old Dublin man, is also receiving treatment for burn injuries he suffered while trying to extinguish the flames.<\/p>\n

[\u00a0\u2018I just hope she\u2019s going to be okay\u2019: Clondalkin residents react to fire attack on womanOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n

Speaking at a meeting of the Policing and Community Safety Authority on Thursday, Garda Commissioner Justin Kelly<\/a> called it \u201can absolutely horrendous attack and far beyond the pale of what you would expect in Irish society.\u201d<\/p>\n

An incident room has been established in Clondalkin Garda station and a senior investigation officer assigned to oversee the case.<\/p>\n

A large number of garda\u00ed have been assigned to the investigation, with Mr Kelly promising \u201cto do everything we can to make sure the perpetrator is brought to justice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Garda\u00ed believe the attacker escaped the scene on an electric bicycle. Extensive CCTV footage of the surrounding area has been gathered to date.<\/p>\n

Garda\u00ed are still trying to establish a motive for the attack but believe it is likely linked to the drugs trade in the local area.<\/p>\n

The woman\u2019s partner is known to garda\u00ed and has several previous convictions for theft.<\/p>\n

Garda\u00ed believe the woman\u2019s partner was likely the primary target of Tuesday\u2019s attack. There had been several previous incidents at the home involving intimidation that garda\u00ed believe was primarily aimed at the woman\u2019s partner.<\/p>\n

As recently as Monday afternoon, garda\u00ed were called to the house after reports of masked men outside. However, the occupants did not make a statement.<\/p>\n

[\u00a0Clondalkin fire attack: Woman critical; Garda source compares incident to \u2018cartel tactics\u2019Opens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman who was set on fire at her Dublin home suffered severe burns to most of her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,53621,615,61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-164485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-clondalkin","10":"tag-dublin","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164485","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=164485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}