{"id":289333,"date":"2026-02-09T21:05:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T21:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/289333\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T21:05:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T21:05:47","slug":"canadian-tourist-beaten-to-death-near-oconnell-street-had-head-treated-like-a-football-court-hears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/289333\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian tourist beaten to death near O\u2019Connell Street had head \u2018treated like a football\u2019, court hears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ionut Danca and Madalin Ghiuzan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/d18186ef-2aa2-4501-a89e-81e26a64bb82.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Ionut Danca and Madalin Ghiuzan<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A Canadian tourist who was &#8220;loved by everyone&#8221; was beaten to death on a Dublin street and had his head &#8220;treated like a football&#8221;, the deceased&#8217;s sister has told the Central Criminal Court.  Maral Dolmajian said her brother Neno Dolmajian (42) had the &#8220;soul and sensitivity of an artist&#8221;, was curious about the world and loved to learn as much as he could. He planned his trip to Ireland around a Liam Gallagher concert but met a group of people near O&#8217;Connell St and was knocked to the ground before being kicked full force in the face.  Ms Dolmajian said her brother&#8217;s death has forever destroyed their family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">She said: &#8220;My parents have always gone above and beyond to help family and friends. They have always been the most generous with their time and energy. The consequence of all this goodness, all these good deeds, was their only son being killed. Their son who wouldn&#8217;t even hurt a fly. Their son who had never gotten into fights, who got on with everyone and was loved by everyone.&#8221;  She said bad things happen to good people, and her brother was a &#8220;good person, kind, funny, thoughtful and a joy to be around. He made people feel seen and valued. Everyone loved him.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ionut Danca and Madalin Ghiuzan A Canadian tourist who was &#8220;loved by everyone&#8221; was beaten to death on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,898,112],"class_list":["post-289333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289333","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=289333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}